Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For whilst other industries could relatively easily dispose of their waste materials , this was out of the question for most of the nuclear industry 's leftovers .
2 This was out of the question .
3 Well they 've got the depot at Rochdale which services up to Blackpool and this was out on a limb .
4 This was out in the street afterwards . ’
5 There was just because there was n't enough money within all unions , not forget that there was n't such a thing as a T U C then , this was in at the infancy when the unions first started , there was n't such as a T U C , Trades Unions Congress .
6 ‘ As I was saying , ’ Patrick Milligan continued , once his youngest was out of the house , ‘ if the best came to the best , and your sister married the old codger , we could be in clover .
7 Wimpey made a loss in 1991 of £16.1m but has restructured by selling off businesses and said earlier this year that it believed the worst was over in the construction industry .
8 Most of her work would be over by now ; Dizzy was out of the way , and the party was running under its own momentum .
9 Yes , we saw a white one , that was round near the leisure centre .
10 That was through to the end of September .
11 Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter .
12 Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there .
13 Julia was relieved that that was out of the way and that David 's announcement had been so definite .
14 Sir Gregory knew that was out of the question , but it was also essential that she should not see the entrance to the tunnel .
15 That was out of the question now ; concentration would be impossible .
16 No , she thought , that was out of the question .
17 It would have been a particular thrill to have met the man who could pen such material , she mused as she closed the lid on her suitcase for the last time on Tuesday morning , but she knew that that was out of the question .
18 Yeah , that was out of the cash money I had !
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