Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv prt] [prep] the question " in BNC.

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1 This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all .
2 Sparkling performance figures would seem to be out of the question .
3 Much as he would have liked to try to rescue Murray , he recognised that to be out of the question .
4 He felt cold to the point of shivering , weak enough for standing to be out of the question .
5 I suppose getting tickets for the Oxford game is going to be out of the question ?
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