Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this was out of a you know er I mean they were only what Oh could n't be more than about six eight people working in the Well not actually fitters but er you know , they were involved within the shop sort of thing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This was out of the 850 000 or so collisions the UA1 apparatus recorded towards the end of last year from a total of about one thousand million actual collisions . |
| 4 | This was out of the question . |
| 5 | This was regardless of the unpopularity or obnoxiousness of the views that were being expressed — and protected . |
| 6 | In this case the reports show clearly that this was fully of the degree to be expected when somebody has a really severe blow from a heavy block swinging against the face . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that although some occupations in north Staffordshire experienced real-wage falls over the war years , these were generally of no more than 10 per cent , and it seems that colliers , like potters , were among the groups who could maintain living standards by working harder and longer , even if at times money wages lagged . |
| 9 | These were not of the best quality ; lighting in the first instance was oil , then gas , but on the introduction of electrically lit stock , the batteries were always run down or low in the winter , and described by one wag , a regular user of the service , as reminiscent of ‘ a red hot hairpit ’ . |
| 10 | Although his trip to America in 1946 was partly of a business nature , that business could be combined with pleasure in meeting his " authors " , such as Auden and Djuna Barnes . |
| 11 | If tile 4 were out of the way , as in c , the position b could be obtained from a by sliding the tiles 7 , 8 , 3 , 5 , and 1 in a loop . |
| 12 | Er they get rather sulky and offended to say the least , they get er , often they recruit academics and lawyers to say that the memories of abuse are fabricated , the memories of abuse they could n't really have happened because the people concerned were out of the country at the time and were on holiday anyway and er did n't even meet the family until the kid was eleven years old after it was sup and so on and so forth . |
| 13 | Most of her work would be over by now ; Dizzy was out of the way , and the party was running under its own momentum . |
| 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 | Julia was relieved that that was out of the way and that David 's announcement had been so definite . |
| 16 | That was out of the question now ; concentration would be impossible . |
| 17 | No , she thought , that was out of the question . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Yeah , that was out of the cash money I had ! |