Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv prt] [prep] the question " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at the tangle of bushes on either side , she soon realised that to make a thorough search of the undergrowth was out of the question . |
| 2 | It is a relatively small basement room , so a large imposing piece was out of the question . |
| 3 | Yet a return to the ordinary relations between a templestate and the Seleucid sovereign was out of the question . |
| 4 | Watching the flames shoot up the chimney , he told himself firmly that marriage was out of the question . |
| 5 | This meant a slightly longer , but more pleasant , train journey to London ; and it presented no problems about staying up in the evening , whereas with my school duties lunch was out of the question . |
| 6 | Work was out of the question , she could not think about it ; she did not dare go to the tower , she felt she had damaged something : loose talk means hubris . |
| 7 | My next thought , since saving my life 's work was out of the question , was for a pair of underpants in the probable event that I would shortly find myself in public . |
| 8 | At the same time she knew escape was out of the question . |
| 9 | Diana then knew that divorce was out of the question . |
| 10 | Divorce was out of the question , because of her religious convictions . |
| 11 | A caddie was out of the question and a golf cart , her usual helpmate , would not be allowed on the coarse until later on . |
| 12 | To try to leave the surface of the planet was out of the question . |
| 13 | An independent structure for the organisation was out of the question . |
| 14 | The government was determined to avoid confrontation with any Great Power over peripheral areas where significant economic development was out of the question . |
| 15 | Conventional adoption was out of the question . |
| 16 | Adoption was out of the question in this country I think in Grampian region there was four babies for |
| 17 | A big peak was out of the question ; it was a little too late , a little too wet and miserable . |
| 18 | To frighten off these visions , and because further sleep was out of the question , he went downstairs to make some tea . |
| 19 | Sleep was out of the question now . |
| 20 | Time-keeping was out of the question , structure was notable largely by its absence , and at the end of the weekend someone stole the funds , thus breaking even the bond of collective trust which was assumed to exist . |
| 21 | To those for whom gas was out of the question , and candles or lamps were expensive luxuries , firelight was often the single source of light as well as heat , as George Eliot notes in Adam Bede : ‘ It was a pretty scene in the red fire-light : for there were no candles ; why should there be , when the fire was so bright , and was reflected from all the pewter and the polished oak ? ’ |
| 22 | The ladder was out of the question now , what with the floodlights . |
| 23 | The sun made it warm enough to sit outside and , although swimming in the pool was out of the question so early in the year , Jenna managed to get an even golden tan . |
| 24 | A doctor was out of the question , Isabel would never see doctors , had always been in rude health , had not , indeed , wanted to call the doctor to Faith , until her colour had changed and , by her breathing , they had known that the illness was grave . |
| 25 | Labour borough councillors , who threw the plan out last year , say the inspector 's report vindicates their view that a private hospital in the grounds of the Memorial was out of the question . |
| 26 | But with Karen such frankness was out of the question , and without her cooperation , getting rid of Dennis looked like just another of the many pipe-dreams I had indulged in over the years . |
| 27 | Missing the mid-1992 implementation date was out of the question . |
| 28 | However , continuing financial uncertainty meant that privatisation by means of a share issue to the public was out of the question . |
| 29 | The depth sounder and Decca Navigator in the wheelhouse were innovations and although Radar was out of the question at that time we managed very well with the Decca Navigator , often running up the Thames in quite dense fog buoy hopping through Sea Reach . |
| 30 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |