Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 For example , the myth that management development is a politically neutral , objective activity that brings the best talent out for service to the enterprise ( Lawrence , 1977 ) .
2 It is not explicitly stated that the Miller demands to tell his tale out of spite to the Reeve .
3 Even this was in quite a congested area and from 25 October 1944 , the cars carried on , out of service to the Coombe Road crossover and reversed there .
4 Carl would scream hysterically , like a castrated pig , out of proportion to a mere arse-kick .
5 It was a show of force which appeared somewhat out of proportion to the 200 or so trade unionists who turned up outside the court .
6 To suggest , sotto voce , that we may be in danger of inflating the man ( woman , rarely ) way out of proportion to the job itself ?
7 But however great the wife 's contribution , the order to her should not be out of proportion to the total assets and had to do justice between the parties .
8 That raid on Berlin of the 25/26 August pulled a psychological trigger in Nazi minds , and produced results that were entirely out of proportion to the military resources employed on that particular raid .
9 The main drawback to this officer/ N.C.O./soldier ratio was that if a party was killed or taken prisoner the enemy scored a success well out of proportion to the numbers involved . ’
10 The PLO struck at Israeli soldiers and civilians alike , and by 1970 the Israelis were retaliating deep into Lebanon , usually against civilian targets and always with results quite out of proportion to the original Palestinian attack .
11 Rather in the same way that the mite of scabies sets up an allergic reaction , in certain people infected with candida an intense irritation occurs , which may be quite out of proportion to the degree of infection .
12 Syphilis has a reputation in the United Kingdom today quite out of proportion to the amount of infection that it causes .
13 Weakness out of proportion to the illness
14 Anxiety , restlessness , weakness out of proportion to the illness , burning pains better ( > ) heat , foul odours , chilly , worse ( < ) before and just after midnight — these are characteristic of this remedy .
15 Burning pains better ( > ) for heat is very characteristic of this remedy as is the weakness out of proportion to the illness .
16 Avoid very narrow raised beds , otherwise the thickness of the wall will look out of proportion to the planting area .
17 Wherever you use ALCLAD , the magnificent effect is always right out of proportion to the cost .
18 Mrs Smith is attractive in a jaded way and exudes a cheerful demeanour that is out of proportion to the magnitude of her problems .
19 Mrs Smith is attractive in a jaded way and exudes a cheerful demeanour that is out of proportion to the magnitude of her problems .
20 A rose stem is not very thick , and it does not look very nice to use a stake so thick as to be out of proportion to the stem it is supporting .
21 Mark Wait at Heffers in Cambridge commented , ‘ The work involved in collecting statistics can be quite out of proportion to the level of business being done .
22 Thirdly , the respect in which the courts are held gives their decisions an influence out of proportion to the number of cases they deal with .
23 The Army Department reviewed commitments in Korea and wrote to the State Department that Korea possessed ‘ little strategic value ’ in the view of the joint chiefs of staff — ‘ To apply the Truman Doctrine to Korea would require prodigious effort and vast expenditure far out of proportion to the benefits to be expected . ’
24 Quite often something one had thought perfectly uncontroversial or even almost too insultingly obvious to include in one 's cooking instructions arouses readers to a pitch of rage and scorn which strikes one as very much out of proportion to the offence committed .
25 Our evidence for the organization and internal politics of classical Corinth is meagre , and out of proportion to the city 's importance .
26 To give it more would be out of proportion to the need shown and would entail too high a risk of unjustifiable interference with the freedom of expression of the press and public .
27 The problem of the private beds gave rise to a violence of dispute which seemed to me wholly out of proportion to the magnitude of the issue .
28 She felt engulfed in a frozen rage quite out of proportion to the situation …
29 Margaret Thatcher managed to negotiate a system of rebates at the Fontainebleau Summit in 1984 , but the British contribution remains wholly out of proportion to the size of her economy .
30 Between 30% and 50% of all consultations with medical professionals in industrialized countries result from no detectable physical illness or when the complaint of discomfort is out of proportion to the physical problem .
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