Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun sg] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This animal does not hibernate , but stores food for the winter , which means that the damage it can cause is out of proportion to its diminutive size . |
| 2 | That statement was not , in my view , ever intended to acknowledge the existence of any wider discretion than to exclude ( 1 ) admissible evidence which would probably have a prejudicial influence upon the minds of the jury that would be out of proportion to its true evidential value ; and ( 2 ) evidence tantamount to a self-incriminatory admission which was obtained from the defendant , after the offence had been committed , by means which would justify a judge in excluding an actual confession which had the like self-incriminating effect . |
| 3 | It seemed out of proportion to its surroundings , like a piece of pop sculpture on a deliberately provoking scale . |
| 4 | For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is certainly out of proportion to their actual size , but is in my view a healthy thing . |
| 7 | There were not many of them but they made an impact on the Congress that was quite out of proportion to their small numbers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hence , pressure groups for the disabled , the old , neglected children and so on will exert influence out of proportion to their naked power . |
| 10 | But many of these offences are serious or sophisticated crimes , with importance out of proportion to their numbers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He would be missed to a degree all out of proportion to his usefulness . |
| 13 | SHALLOW , SELF-important , with a reputation well out of proportion to his meagre talent , Kenneth Branagh is British Culture 's idea of a modern Renaissance man . |
| 14 | The fact that he was black and a Tory gave him a value out of proportion to his contribution to the local Party , so he was frequently trotted out at functions , and encouraged to ask questions of visiting speakers . |
| 15 | We have a degree of influence in the UK which is quite out of proportion to our relatively small number . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't suppose there 's many girls that could be that much worse than , say , Hilary Frome , ’ put in Penny , out of loyalty to her sex . |
| 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 | I buy one of the newspapers for its financial pages , another for its news coverage , especially its sport , and the third out of loyalty to my favourite golf correspondent , Toby Greenslade . |
| 20 | However , Raúl ‘ was excluded from all secret policy planning and decision-making ’ ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 154 ) , and when he joined Fidel 's movement in July 1953 ( primarily , it seems out of loyalty to his brother rather than conviction as to the political correctness of the enterprise ) he did not tell the Communists what he was doing ( Lockwood : 1969 , p. 163 ; Szulc : 1986 , p. 181 ) . |
| 21 | Well it 's out of order to anyone . |
| 22 | The fact that it had been brought to the family majlis was out of deference to me . |
| 23 | Lady Alianor Woodville was tall , nearly sixty years of age , and always wore flowing gowns of unrelieved black out of deference to her deceased lord . |
| 24 | My mother thought about this for a moment until comprehension came to her , whereupon she changed the subject out of deference to my youth and inexperience . |
| 25 | But if the expenses in question are payable out of income to which the beneficiary has already become entitled , the expenses are not a proper deduction from the beneficiary 's total income , since they represent simply the mode in which he applies his income after he has become entitled to it . |
| 26 | I felt I had to comply , out of gratitude to one who , with his wife , had been most hospitable ; and , no doubt detecting merits which were not there , I forwarded it to Eliot . |
| 27 | I stopped the police banging down your door earlier out of respect to you . |
| 28 | She had not pressed for a statement at Westminster out of respect to his family . |
| 29 | The only blight here is the numbering at the top of the neck , which does look out of place to me . |
| 30 | The manor always looks out of place to me , a Victorian shooting lodge built in the style of a German castle for the wealthy Kay Shuttleworth family . |