Example sentences of "[prep] proportion to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Smith is attractive in a jaded way and exudes a cheerful demeanour that is out of proportion to the magnitude of her problems . |
| 2 | Mrs Smith is attractive in a jaded way and exudes a cheerful demeanour that is out of proportion to the magnitude of her problems . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Things go wrong when you have too few , or when one gets out of proportion to the rest . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's very exhausting hanging on by your arms , and Michael had a strength in his upper arms that was out of proportion to the rest of his body . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Wherever you use ALCLAD , the magnificent effect is always right out of proportion to the cost . |
| 11 | Weakness out of proportion to the illness |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Burning pains better ( > ) for heat is very characteristic of this remedy as is the weakness out of proportion to the illness . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | To suggest , sotto voce , that we may be in danger of inflating the man ( woman , rarely ) way out of proportion to the job itself ? |
| 17 | She felt engulfed in a frozen rage quite out of proportion to the situation … |
| 18 | Our evidence for the organization and internal politics of classical Corinth is meagre , and out of proportion to the city 's importance . |
| 19 | Syphilis has a reputation in the United Kingdom today quite out of proportion to the amount of infection that it causes . |
| 20 | Special care baby units are phenomenally expensive in equipment ; there 's an awful lot of monitoring equipment that 's required , and it has to be updated every few years , and the costs are quite out of proportion to the amount of money available to the health authority , so that er , on the whole , special care baby units throughout the country now rely virtually totally on charitable giving . |
| 21 | Avoid very narrow raised beds , otherwise the thickness of the wall will look out of proportion to the planting area . |
| 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 | Bear in mind that the container should be in proportion to the size of the flowers — small blooms are lost in a large vase . |
| 24 | And measured in proportion to the size of America 's economy ( see chart 3 ) , the consolidation around the turn of the century was far bigger . |
| 25 | This beautiful small cow is elegantly built with fine bones , a fine , clean head held alert and set off by gaily carried white horns which curve upwards , tapering to black tips , and which are quite long in proportion to the size of the animal . |
| 26 | Extra items or ‘ props ’ used in the display must be in proportion to the size of the goods on show . |
| 27 | Use prominent and clear price tickets ( but make sure they are in proportion to the size of the goods ) . |
| 28 | As the thickness of the paper is greater in proportion to the size of the finished card , a single thickness will have adequate strength to stand up ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 29 | David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ . |
| 30 | Although all members participate in the decision-making process , votes are allotted in proportion to the size of their quotas . |