Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last Brownie to reach that place and any Brownies who run in the wrong direction are out of the game . |
| 2 | Oils rallied several pence now that the anticipated lower-earnings from BP and Shell are out of the way . |
| 3 | It is clear that if the Hohenzollern candidature were out of the way , peace would be assured . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not the end of the world if we draw , but I think defeat is out of the question . ’ |
| 5 | As spraying is out of the question , the pool owner must resort to gathering all damaged floating foliage . |
| 6 | If part of the spring is out of the end of the pipe , twisting it ( with a screwdriver through the loop ) can help remove it . |
| 7 | But even with the field limited in this way , an exhaustive study is out of the question . |
| 8 | I suppose a rock 's out of the question ? |
| 9 | But the divine divine is out of the country at the moment , at some coven of inter-faith priestesses in California . |
| 10 | Even though the pound is out of the Euopean Exchange Rate Mechanism , a cut at present would be too risky , without a corresponding fall in Germany . |
| 11 | A subpoena may not be issued where the proposed witness is out of the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | A slightly less elaborate statement is much cited in Australia : the applicant must satisfy the court ‘ that the witness is out of the jurisdiction of the court , that his evidence is material and that his attendance within the jurisdiction can not be procured ’ ; it seems to have been derived from a similar observation of Lindley L.J . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is a relatively small basement room , so a large imposing piece was out of the question . |
| 15 | Yet a return to the ordinary relations between a templestate and the Seleucid sovereign was out of the question . |
| 16 | Both Panic and the FRY Internal Affairs Minister Pavle Bulatovic were out of the capital . |
| 17 | ‘ Whatever happened to part them , she considers herself so tainted that marriage is out of the question . ’ |
| 18 | ( 5 ) Actually , lunch is out of the question . |
| 19 | Mr Wilson said yesterday that Mr Freeman 's comments are grim news for evening and weekend passengers : ‘ The cat is out of the bag . |
| 20 | Brian Wilson : ‘ The cat is out of the bag ’ |
| 21 | There will , of course , be no severance pay , and a reference is out of the question . |
| 22 | I 'm very sorry about your cat , about Melusina , I know how fond you were of her , but giving you compensation is out of the question . |
| 23 | The parent avoids responding in anger or punitively as the child is out of the way ( Herbert 1981 ; Forehand and McMahon 1981 ) . |
| 24 | While the engine is out of the boat we will renew the sound insulation in the engine compartment , which is very dirty as well as having been superseded by much better materials in the intervening years , and install a much-needed light — have you tried to get a Volvo MD7a dipstick back into its hole , aboard a Sigma , in the dark ? |
| 25 | Watching the flames shoot up the chimney , he told himself firmly that marriage was out of the question . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At the same time she knew escape was out of the question . |
| 30 | 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 . |