Example sentences of "be out of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the consequences of tight inventory control seem to be accepted by the British consumer — the Marks & Spencer supermarket nearest our London office always seems to be out of chicken by mid-afternoon — it runs contrary to the habits of a typical American shopper , particularly one visiting a store that charges top dollar . |
| 2 | Coppell will be out of management for at least 2 years ( unless he 's offered the England job ! ! ) |
| 3 | He seemed to be out of scale with the rest of the room , as if his size and all of its angles had somehow been exaggerated . |
| 4 | Wherever they are kept , they should be out of reach of children and , where appropriate , under lock and key . |
| 5 | It had to be high enough to be out of reach of the Men , for they could not fly . |
| 6 | But then to have the wit and the cold blood to fit the stone back and cover the traces — that could be out of reach of most of us . |
| 7 | Available goods are so highly priced as to be out of reach for people on average incomes . |
| 8 | He 'll be out of tablets by now . |
| 9 | Hope then made what was to be his last appeal to the House of Commons for a Gothic Foreign Office , as he was to be out of Parliament from May 1859 until 1865 , when the present building was being built . |
| 10 | But at least there is near unanimity that we really will be out of recession by the end of the year . |
| 11 | In the Commercial Union building alone almost three acres — 2,000 panes — of toughened glass must be replaced , according to Mr Ray Morley , a marketing manager of the insurance firm , who said yesterday that the building would be out of service for a year . |
| 12 | Every bus on the route will be out of service from 8 each evening while the company talks to police and community groups . |
| 13 | Vincent-Jones continues : ‘ We decided that some sort of celebration would not be out of order on the occasion of this remarkable escape . |
| 14 | He has not done so and , therefore , it would be out of order for the Hon. Gentleman to pursue his present line of argument under this new clause |
| 15 | So any substantive attack on the proposition will be out of order within the context of adjudication , just as an attack on the wisdom of the rules of chess is out of order within a game . |
| 16 | If a world chess congress were convened to reconsider the rules for future tournaments , arguments would be made in that congress that would clearly be out of order within a game of chess . |
| 17 | I do not think I would be out of order in recalling a private conversation with the Secretary of State for Transport about a year ago on this subject . |
| 18 | But if the consensus is one of conviction , then dissent , however surprising , will not be out of order in the same way , because everyone will recognize that an attack on the substantive case for the proposition is an attack on the proposition itself . |
| 19 | With newly appointed White House Chief of Staff James Baker firmly in charge of Bush 's re-election bid , the campaign shifted away from the religious right-wing agenda ( particularly the issues of " family values " and implacable opposition to abortion ) which had been so pronounced in past months , and which had been shown consistently to be out of alignment with the views of the mainstream of the electorate . |
| 20 | Even though they may live and sleep above ground for months at a time , they prefer not to be out of distance of some sort of refuge that will serve for a hole . |
| 21 | For his final years in office , Warwick was known to be out of favour with the king , something which must have reduced his authority within the duchy . |
| 22 | For his final years in office , Warwick was known to be out of favour with the king , something which must have reduced his authority within the duchy . |
| 23 | It was the three main reception rooms of an old Victorian folly built for the Crystal Palace Exhibition , backing on to Beckenham golf course which , I suppose became a very desirable place to be out of London in Victorian times . |
| 24 | You better have your orchards well fenced or you 'll be out of apples by October . ’ |
| 25 | The Scots then pulled away again and with 15 ends completed looked to be out of sight at 88-65 . |
| 26 | All the adventurers have to do is to be out of sight of the Fiend when it emerges after 3 Turns . |
| 27 | After he had gone Tristram and Jennifer went down to the end of the orchard where they could be out of sight of the house . |
| 28 | I was slumped against him , almost fainting , conscious only that he had led me behind a red-brick loggia , obviously so that we would be out of sight of the people in the main concourse while he dispatched me . |
| 29 | Firstly they could be painted in camouflage to lessen the visual impact or alternatively , they could be dispersed among trees and in copses , so as to be out of sight from the very well used coast paths . |
| 30 | I 'd sat on my palliasse writing notes , watching Selma plait her hair , trying to decide when to get up and walk down the inlet far enough to be out of sight in order to go to the loo . |