Example sentences of "as out [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sudden declaration of sensitivity struck her as out of character and oddly demeaning . |
| 2 | However by 1941 , almost the entire membership had either found war work or was employed in the surviving Edinburgh printing offices , and by then only 2 members were listed as out of work . |
| 3 | There were between a quarter and a half a million people registered as out of work . |
| 4 | Numbers registered as out of work rose from just over a million in 1979 to over 3 million in 1983 . |
| 5 | As by the time any new formula is developed and implemented the information will be nearly as out of date as that used in the RAWP review , any new analysis may be little more informative than the last with respect to the role of social variables . |
| 6 | Contrary to older views — which saw him as out of favour in papal government under Celestine III ( from the Boboni family ) — he signs most of the papal privileges in the seven years between 1191 and 1197 . |
| 7 | So out of habit as much as out of duty , he turned his captured horse and rode again towards the enemy . |
| 8 | Most political scientists quickly came to argue that things had gone badly wrong : some groups were too powerful and the system as a whole was seen as out of control so that there was an overload of demands on government . |
| 9 | In the first place , she is n't as out of step as Labour politicians , who themselves have many reservations about some versions of political union , would like to think . |
| 10 | But perhaps it classified him as out of action , impotent despite his puissant armour . |
| 11 | An error on the monthly computer tape supplied by Penguin to Whitaker Bibliographic Services has led to over 2,000 Penguin titles being wrongly designated as out of print . |
| 12 | Gentlemanly distaste for ‘ trade ’ is as out of place in sport as it is in the Conservative Party of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 13 | In the changing conceptual frame inside which a science progresses , it would be as out of place to look for progress as in the styles of an art . |
| 14 | At Regine 's , where Jody Scheckter would have been as out of place as a hyena at a symphony concert , James was thoroughly at home . |
| 15 | I have been asked to give my views on the most important events and changes in the ‘ domain of art and artistic culture ’ over the last ten years , which I have agreed to do , as much out of friendship for the Giornale dell'Arte ( and its editor ) as out of vanity ( let's be honest ) . |
| 16 | There 's nothing on Lovesexy as supersaturated as ‘ Adore ’ , as out of kilter as ‘ Ballad of Dorothy Parker ’ or as vacant and cretinizingly compulsive as ‘ Hot Thing ’ . |
| 17 | But we must not confuse any of that with a static universalist understanding of the personality , nor — out of respect for the women of our past as well as out of respect for the truth — simply write over their self-identity . |
| 18 | The writer was Ford Madox Ford , who was among the most loyal as he had been among the first of Pound 's friends ; in the twenties he was as penurious and as out of fashion as Pound . |
| 19 | These are as out of fashion as boned corsets or shoulder pads . |
| 20 | We agreed that without our set we felt as out of touch as two visitors from outer space . |
| 21 | They are as out of touch will hill reality as some walkers and climbers ! |