Example sentences of "be quite [adv prt] [prep] the question " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To defy convention , surrender her virginity , to a man she neither loved nor desired must be quite out of the question . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | ‘ I told him that whilst he was dating my own sister it was quite out of the question . |
| 7 | 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 . |