Example sentences of "[noun sg] was out of the [noun sg] " 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 | When eight artists relied to : ‘ Why have there been no great women artists ? ’ in Art News in January 1971 ( including Elaine de Kooning , Rosemarie Castoro , Lynda Benglis , Sleanor Antin ) the cat was out of the bag in the United States . |
| 10 | Diana then knew that divorce was out of the question . |
| 11 | Divorce was out of the question , because of her religious convictions . |
| 12 | A caddie was out of the question and a golf cart , her usual helpmate , would not be allowed on the coarse until later on . |
| 13 | To try to leave the surface of the planet was out of the question . |
| 14 | Annie was only too glad to cope with the clothes while her husband was out of the way . |
| 15 | The bacon and the cheese had all been transferred to the room-sized storage refrigerator behind the shop , and while her husband was out of the way Rennie Hamilton loaded all the groceries into the canvas bag and did a quick addition on the list and noted the amount on the end of the growing column in the credit book . |
| 16 | An independent structure for the organisation was out of the question . |
| 17 | This proposal to establish a council which would in effect supervise the government of the realm while the king was overseas was the clearest echo of the Ordinances , though with the crucial difference that it was to function only as long as the king was out of the realm : it was not the intention of the commons to subject the king permanently to conciliar restraint . |
| 18 | The government was determined to avoid confrontation with any Great Power over peripheral areas where significant economic development was out of the question . |
| 19 | As soon as my father was out of the way she became a holy terror . |
| 20 | In the 17C this area was out of the jurisdiction of the town and was solely in the hands of the Knights of Malta , an honour which dates from the 12C . |
| 21 | Conventional adoption was out of the question . |
| 22 | Adoption was out of the question in this country I think in Grampian region there was four babies for |
| 23 | To say that my first game of the new season was out of the ordinary would be a massive understatement — never in 25 seasons of refereeing have I had to learn and interpret 19 law changes and then get to apply them first time up in a game in France between two clubs from England and Scotland ! |
| 24 | When she knew her daughter was out of the room , and still with the poker in her hand , Peggy took a step towards him , saying , ‘ Well , that should be enough for you , should n't it ? enough proof . |
| 25 | A big peak was out of the question ; it was a little too late , a little too wet and miserable . |
| 26 | To frighten off these visions , and because further sleep was out of the question , he went downstairs to make some tea . |
| 27 | Sleep was out of the question now . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ? ’ |
| 30 | The ladder was out of the question now , what with the floodlights . |