Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the question " in BNC.
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| 1 | Power struggles are not out of the question and , if you are single , you may be drawn into a passionate , even obsessive liaison . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry to say all hopes of a tranquil day are totally out of the question . |
| 3 | Then , after a bit , it becomes not something unacceptable , but something accepted or at least something which is demonstrated to be not out of the question . |
| 4 | Medical examination of each child would then be almost out of the question ’ . |
| 5 | And Breeze 's heart sank still lower as she reflected that if they were really penniless , an artistic career with its inevitable ups and downs would be quite out of the question . |
| 6 | To defy convention , surrender her virginity , to a man she neither loved nor desired must be quite out of the question . |
| 7 | Apartment rents in most major cities in the US are astronomical , and hotel costs are virtually out of the question . |
| 8 | Rest days from Ullapool were really out of the question so we either had to take the ship on the long sea passage to Aberdeen or down to Ardrossan . |
| 9 | Air lifts were now out of the question , but trains were still a practical proposition — as Chadwick discovered when he came to deal with the Nazi official in charge of emigration . |
| 10 | In any case , repartition is not out of the question . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Such an agreement is not out of the question . |
| 13 | Though relegation beckons for Nottingham , victory over Northampton is not out of the question . |
| 14 | A windfall or an inheritance is not out of the question , and we could be looking at the end of March , May or October-November for a material or financial boost . |
| 15 | ‘ It will require a huge effort and a great deal of concentration , but the attitude of the players is so different now to what it was a year ago , it is not out of the question . ’ |
| 16 | A reconciliation is not out of the question . ’ |
| 17 | Gregory 's claim that he was hailed as consul and Augustus at Tours must be a misunderstanding , although an honorary consulship is not out of the question . |
| 18 | The idea is that their views will go forward to the IRFB and , astonishingly , it is not out of the question that one aspect or more of those variations could be dropped even before the Lions set foot in New Zealand . |
| 19 | In the large majority of cases a straightforward mathematical solution is just out of the question . |
| 20 | The language barrier means that real interaction with the indigenous population is largely out of the question . |
| 21 | In practice it is always out of the question : there is always a residuum of unpredictability . |
| 22 | It is totally out of the question . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ said Michael , ‘ I guess dessert is probably out of the question , too . ’ |
| 24 | Home care is really out of the question now , and another period in hospital is not good for this patient 's emotional well-being ! ’ |
| 25 | Unusually for me , I saw a few paintings and so on which I thought were lovely , but of course purchase is quite out of the question — and anyway we have no wall space left here ! |
| 26 | The Evesham Laboratory was set up to serve growers in the Vale of Evesham and it 's been taken away and Wolverhampton is quite out of the question . |
| 27 | It 's completely out of the question . ’ |
| 28 | It is therefore out of the question to write any but very slow passages in harmonics for the harp . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , whilst a joint campaign with the Communist Party and other political organizations was entirely out of the question , the Labour leadership felt compelled to adjust its policy with regard to Spain . |
| 30 | Post-war governments in France and Italy , the most important states , were weak coalitions , short-lived and threatened by strong communist parties ; a Soviet invasion of continental Europe was not out of the question ; and Labour politicians disliked the Christian Democratic predominance on the Continent . |