Example sentences of "out of [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his will , Barnes gave Lincoln , a small black institution in rural Pennsylvania , the power to name four out of five trustees to the foundation board . |
| 2 | In the 1720s a government survey counted almost a quarter of a million fugitives , and the opening out of new lands to the south and east continued to attract desperate peasants throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Some people go into teaching with the intention of becoming active in the union , either out of genuine commitment to teaching as a profession , or because it offers a political platform . |
| 4 | Anderson , for instance , suggests that the strong family cohesion amongst some groups in rural areas was maintained by migrants into Lancashire cotton plants like Preston though largely for fairly calculative reasons rather than out of emotional loyalty to kin . |
| 5 | In the late 1960 's and early 1970's , policy makers became increasingly concerned that the South East may be becoming more and more socially ‘ polarized ’ , as the more highly skilled and highly paid moved out of inner London to better jobs and better housing around London . |
| 6 | Indeed , ‘ Fleet Street ’ itself was a misnomer from 1985 onwards , as modern technology and high unit costs led major newspapers to move out of central London to the eastern inner suburbs , to avoid the unions ' stranglehold . |
| 7 | One publishing company which relocated out of central London to the suburbs negotiated a small consolidated payment , with its recognised union , the National Union of Journalists . |
| 8 | After decades when little change had taken place , most — if not all — the newspaper groups have introduced plans to modernize their plants by introducing new technology , reducing manning levels and moving out of central London to the East End . |
| 9 | Crime — Costs — Wasted costs order — Judge disallowing unspecified part of counsel 's brief fee — Whether order rightly made — Procedure to be followed — Whether costs payable out of central funds to successful appellant — Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 ( c. 23 ) , s. 19A ( as inserted by Courts and Legal Servces Act 1990 ( c. 41 ) , s. 111 ) |
| 10 | We carried on using the encyclopedia to make plans , taking ourselves out of that room to beautiful , exotic places , places of joyful freedom , sailing oceans , crossing mountain ranges and doing something worthwhile . |
| 11 | This is a beautiful short walk with rewards out of all relationship to effort . |
| 12 | On the amount of damages , Mr Lightman said the Court of Appeal had a special responsibility to bear in mind the ‘ dangerous precedent ’ which could be set by such awards , and added that in this case the award was out of all proportion to the alleged libel . |
| 13 | ‘ For some children it would give them the opportunity to wreak mayhem , while other , more sensitive children would be deeply affected out of all proportion to what they had done . |
| 14 | This relentless nagging and tidying will have an effect out of all proportion to its actual cogency . |
| 15 | Delors ' proposals were clearly out of all proportion to that figure , and he was soon obliged to retreat with a lame explanation that he had been ‘ arguing from the absurd to show what it would cost to achieve such a goal ’ . |
| 16 | It seems likely that both the concern of political parties and of the public at the activities of the BUF was totally out of all proportion to its importance and to the political challenge which it presented ; as John Stevenson and Chris Cook wrote ‘ British fascism was almost a non-starter ’ . |
| 17 | The thrill was out of all proportion to the event , of course , and serves only to reflect the overwhelmingly domesticated aspect of much British countryside , dominated as it is by cows and sheep , as well as some of what historian Keith Thomas has called ‘ our anti-urban bias ’ . |
| 18 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 19 | This strange , but generally valid comment stems from the fact that the value of fixed capital involved in virtually any farm business is out of all proportion to the returns that can be made . |
| 20 | Knill described the importance of LOIS , which will investigate pollution in estuaries and shallow waters , as being out of all proportion to its size ’ . |
| 21 | The other characteristic is that their influence seems out of all proportion to the amount present : a little goes a long way . |
| 22 | In summary , then , the importance of a particular gas in the atmosphere to life on Earth may be out of all proportion to the concentration of that component . |
| 23 | In fact , the number of left-wing activists was never large but their impact was out of all proportion to their numbers because they found new methods of protest which caught the imagination of much larger numbers . |
| 24 | The contribution of their lowland breeds to the cattle of the world is out of all proportion to the size of the country and their success has been phenomenal , with the black-and-white pied dairy breeds in particular spreading in huge numbers all over the world . |
| 25 | The ring or the spade-end would need to be out of all proportion to the size of the hook . |
| 26 | They were few in number , but attracted an attention out of all proportion to the space they took up in the exhibition . |
| 27 | Even so , the ruin of his career and the disgrace of imprisonment seem , to most people , to be out of all proportion to the crime . |
| 28 | But normally , dismissal seemed out of all proportion to the alleged fault . |
| 29 | Thus emphasis has often been placed on the use of the card catalogue as a major source for locating material , out of all proportion to its value for obtaining information when compared to other tools for information retrieval . |
| 30 | The response is out of all proportion to the stimulus , and this is what makes it special , distinguishing it from occasions where a cat merely withdraws after being scolded . |