Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the question " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry to say all hopes of a tranquil day are totally out of the question . |
| 2 | Medical examination of each child would then be almost out of the question ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | To defy convention , surrender her virginity , to a man she neither loved nor desired must be quite out of the question . |
| 5 | Apartment rents in most major cities in the US are astronomical , and hotel costs are virtually out of the question . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the large majority of cases a straightforward mathematical solution is just out of the question . |
| 9 | The language barrier means that real interaction with the indigenous population is largely out of the question . |
| 10 | In practice it is always out of the question : there is always a residuum of unpredictability . |
| 11 | It is totally out of the question . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ said Michael , ‘ I guess dessert is probably out of the question , too . ’ |
| 13 | Home care is really out of the question now , and another period in hospital is not good for this patient 's emotional well-being ! ’ |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's completely out of the question . ’ |
| 17 | It is therefore out of the question to write any but very slow passages in harmonics for the harp . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Uncritical adherence was clearly out of the question by 1868 , as appears from various sober notes on the logical problems that he saw in Schopenhauer 's system . |
| 20 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 21 | The short pole was now out of the question so it was out on the long pole . |
| 22 | Flying back from Algeria , he confided to Louis Terrenoire that the idea of finding a non-FLN third force with whom to strike a deal was now out of the question . |
| 23 | For the adoring public which flocked to Cheltenham to pay him homage ( the official attendance was 56,884 ) , defeat was simply out of the question . |
| 24 | The prospect of a heterosexual involvement on any level was simply out of the question for me . |
| 25 | Jenny begged him every day to change his mind , but he was a busy man and declared that it was quite out of the question and he wished to goodness Miss Clinton had never mentioned the subject of Brownies ! |
| 26 | ‘ I told him that whilst he was dating my own sister it was quite out of the question . |
| 27 | In the working class , though the stigma might be less , the difficulties were even greater and divorce was quite out of the question for most . |
| 28 | Jansher won the remaining points in one hand , but the rallies were so keen and furious that another dramatic twist of fortunes was never out of the question . |