Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun sg] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a centre wants to find out about compatibility of their computer system and SCOTVEC 's or wants information on specifications to set up a system , contact myself or my colleague Fraser MacFarlane . |
| 2 | LEVEL 42 have a new record deal with RCA , having settled out of court with their old label Polydor following a dispute over the band 's next album . |
| 3 | For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French . |
| 4 | But this class of molluscs includes not only the greatest number of living molluscan species , including those that have most successfully colonized land , but also some of their shells have a financial value that may even be out of proportion to their aesthetic qualities . |
| 5 | It is certainly out of proportion to their actual size , but is in my view a healthy thing . |
| 6 | There were not many of them but they made an impact on the Congress that was quite out of proportion to their small numbers . |
| 7 | The Sigmar representatives are very influential , and because they cast their votes for the same candidate they wield influence out of proportion to their numbers . |
| 8 | Hence , pressure groups for the disabled , the old , neglected children and so on will exert influence out of proportion to their naked power . |
| 9 | But many of these offences are serious or sophisticated crimes , with importance out of proportion to their numbers . |
| 10 | The large eddies play a role out of proportion to their contribution to the turbulent energy , both in the interaction between the mean flow and the turbulence and in the turbulent energy transfer process involved in Fig. 21.8 . |
| 11 | They certainly did n't choose to drop out of society like their New York City equivalents who could always return to daddy 's money ; rather , theirs is a quest to reflect the plight of the dispossessed and let them know they 're not alone , to offer the disaffected hope , and to somehow go beyond merely preaching to those who already understand . |
| 12 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 13 | In the early stages England had given them a certain amount of help , partly out of sympathy for their Protestant religious beliefs and partly to check the power of Spain — it was this war in the Netherlands , more than the troubles in South America , which convinced Philip that he should try to invade England . |
| 14 | Here were audio spaces that , in certain instances , bled around comers out of sight of their sources ; sculptural/architectural spaces around and through which the viewer must travel ; virtual spaces of onscreen worlds ; visual spaces of Greenbergian flatness , for example in Susan Hiller 's well-known Belshazzar 's Feast ( 1983–4 ) , where images of flame move towards the purity of pixels ( though she also devotes attention to the generation of images and gestalts from the eye itself ) ; geographical spaces , notably in the move of Judith Goddard 's environmental sculpture , Electron ( 1987 ) , from Dartmoor indoors . |
| 15 | Dot shoved the trug out of sight under their table before the waitress saw . |
| 16 | In a short time one returned with his beak full , and they could hear the nestlings squeaking as he flew out of sight beneath their feet . |
| 17 | This left them in the ludicrous position of having to claim that , out of loyalty to their sovereign lady , they were embattled against their sovereign lady 's mother . |
| 18 | Would men , misled into fighting for a cause which , in spite of claims made on its behalf , was a war fought for the wrong motives , be eternally damned if they met their death suddenly in battle , even if they were fighting out of loyalty to their king ? |
| 19 | Which gives us the advantage , and keeps us out of range of their artillery . ’ |
| 20 | There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle . |
| 21 | In such circumstances , the Americans , out of concern for their homeland , might falter in their commitment to Nato or look for ways to confine any war to Europe . |
| 22 | Many of the rich , famous and powerful of this world have stayed in the Savoy but , unfortunately , out of respect for their privacy , no official record has ever been kept . |
| 23 | The only thing out of place in their suburban show home is their sensitive young son , Michael , whose disturbing nightmares hint at the darker forces seething beneath its spotless surface … ’ |
| 24 | She naturally felt out of place in their chalet and accepted the invitation of Simon Berry , the son of a wealthy wine merchant , to join his chalet party . |
| 25 | Now , out of regard for their susceptibilities , Europeans were no longer invited , indeed were forbidden to attend . |
| 26 | But any minister of even a few years ' experience of Christian leadership will be able to tell you of Godly issues which were debated in his Church with a bitterness and rancour totally out of harmony with their subject . |
| 27 | Bureaucratic organizations are those which get out of control with their controls |
| 28 | One has a brief glimpse here of the fate of the elderly who were childless or out of touch with their children . |
| 29 | ‘ These women usually live healthy lives , eat well , exercise , do n't smoke or drink — but fear of failure and anxiety about the future puts them out of touch with their bodies . |
| 30 | Instead , they have sometimes adopted policies whose costs are wildly out of line with their benefits . |