Example sentences of "out [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their pay in paper money was so bad and came so late that unless they had peasant relatives who could supply food , they were reduced to making shoes , singing psalms in church , or hiring themselves out as labourers to peasants . |
| 2 | Looked out for threats to S S I 's . |
| 3 | Look out for signs to Federation Cup Park and Ride at city approaches . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Erm , but it 's impressive that he now feels we should be allowed to spend more money to create jobs , because of course a lot of us have been trying to point that out for years to the governments which stupidly cap authorities so they ca n't actually carry out the infrastructure improvements that are needed to enable the economy and the society to function properly . |
| 6 | The turnpike out through Tyburn to Uxbridge bore more broad-wheeled wagons than any other , and in the winter of 1797 – 8 was reduced to a single six-foot-wide muddy track . |
| 7 | Within sixty minutes police out of Buckingham to the west and Bletchley to the east would seal the road completely with steel barriers . |
| 8 | He had thought of Harry all the way out of Rome to Leonardo da Vinci , all the time that he had stood in the check-in line , all the time he had sat on the Alitalia , all the time he had stood at Customs and Immigration at Athens International , all the time in the taxi out to the Kifisia suburb . |
| 9 | Paradoxically , some of these attempts have arisen out of challenges to the very notion of a discipline , through ‘ interdisciplinary ’ work or ‘ modular ’ schemes . |
| 10 | It 's just given us that much more sales coming out of recession to really help us . ’ |
| 11 | To save money it is moving out of London to Newport in South Wales and has been running roadshows to drum up business from industry . |
| 12 | In the interests of discretion — Leo was always discreet — they had driven out of London to Faringdon . |
| 13 | That year he moved out of London to the Kent countryside and was henceforth mainly writing books , raising children and nursing his health . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend will be aware of the difficulties on the A13 — one of the main trunk links out of London to Essex and East Anglia . |
| 15 | A stunning collection of more than twelve million photographs recording some of the most famous events in history has been moved out of London to a new home here in the Central South Region . |
| 16 | Yet another principle is that we are to be ‘ subject to one another out of reverence to Christ ’ ( Eph. 5.21 ) and this applies to each of us — men as well as women — whatever our particular calling in the Church may be . |
| 17 | It is not explicitly stated that the Miller demands to tell his tale out of spite to the Reeve . |
| 18 | She was referring to the illness which put him in hospital last year before he was moved out of Pollsmoor to his present quarters , formerly a prison warden 's home . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She owed this irritating man no explanation — yet out of fairness to Margaret , whose concern was painfully felt , she felt obliged to qualify her first short answer . |
| 21 | For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | To suggest , sotto voce , that we may be in danger of inflating the man ( woman , rarely ) way out of proportion to the job itself ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She might have made her point a lot better by picking up Mouse and dumping him in the garbage can — instead she responded with violence that was really out of proportion to Mouse 's attack . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |