Example sentences of "[been] [prep] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been through no fault of local authorities , according to Noel Towe of the Local Government Drugs Forum . |
| 2 | My Bible instruction to the lad had been of no avail . |
| 3 | Of those it is worth singling out D. 32.95 and D. 33.2.34.1 , in which the jurist indicates ( in the first case implicitly , in the second explicitly ) that the use of the clause has turned out to have crucial consequences for the effectiveness of the testator 's will : for without it his will or some of its dispositions would have been of no force . |
| 4 | Mayer immediately protested the decision , saying the extra width could have been of no possible advantage to Hunt , a view with which I disagreed then and still disagree now , for a sporting rule is a sporting rule . |
| 5 | Accordingly , it is evident that a gift of such significance could have been of no small value to a freeholder or councillor who would otherwise have found difficulty in endowing a relative so generously at the commencement of his career . |
| 6 | I think that one important strand in the rejection of feminism by many women has been a feeling that feminists are saying that their lives have been of no value , and that their activities and concerns have been trivial . |
| 7 | If the election had been declared to be void ( as Panama and Liberia asserted ) , the Committee 's actions in the intervening period would have been of no legal effect . |
| 8 | Auntie 's exceptional eyesight had been of no particular help to her in her job : she was a filing-clerk in a block of offices , for ever sorting other people 's dull letters and dull memoranda . |
| 9 | There were entire countries , reigns , religions , philosophical systems , centuries , species and schools of art contained in its files , which had been of no interest whatsoever to the human race since it emptied its records , museums and libraries into their Al dump bin . |
| 10 | She supports the Christian Democrats ( CDU ) , who until recently have been of no consequence at all in Lauchhammer . |
| 11 | As she grew up , her father had been of no account to her . |
| 12 | Methodism has made a very rapid progress , and has been of no trifling service in diverting the attention of these sons of darkness from their present condition to the glories of the life to come . |
| 13 | Or , if prototype wingflaps worked to break the animal 's fall , you can not say " Below a certain size the flaps would have been of no use at all " . |
| 14 | ‘ If my memory serves me correct , it was you who declared that it had been of no consequence and to wipe it out , ’ he said , the adoring fiancé replaced by an aloof accuser . |
| 15 | This reticence extended even to the making of protests which was why , despite his feeble objections — he had been under no compulsion to go — he had been dragooned into the Navy in the first place . |
| 16 | Although I had been under no real illusions that an amazing secret would suddenly be revealed , I was nevertheless disappointed that my theories had proved to be groundless . |
| 17 | Nizan could have been under no illusions as to the fate of those who were perceived as traitors to the party . |
| 18 | The South African government has been under no obligation to submit reports to the ILO . |
| 19 | The Court judged that Carter had been under no duress when he authorized the amnesty and could have resorted to alternative methods to end the coup attempt . |
| 20 | Despite the volume of sheer hard physical slog there must have been with no vacuum cleaners , washing machines , electric mixers or all the other electronic gadgetry which have eased the burden of housework considerably Eva has no recollection of her mother getting uptight or tense . |
| 21 | They had been inside no more than thirty seconds , Bienvida trembling all over the way she did from terror and excitement , when they heard the voices of Peter , Tom and Alice , as these three people crossed the hall and went upstairs together . |
| 22 | The government was well aware that the very survival of the church had been in no small degree due to the coherence and discipline imparted by the episcopate . |
| 23 | They had been in no hurry to get away but intended to wait until the beginning of daylight before entering the forest . |
| 24 | Conversely , psychology itself has been in no shape to deliver the goods it promised : if educationists were atheoretical , psychologists for their part were producing theories which were too crude to be of much use to educational researchers . |
| 25 | Emily Faithfull herself rather naively replied to one questioner : Suppose a printer receives from 30s to 36s a week and suppose his wages were reduced 10s per week , and his daughters who before had been in no employment receive each 10s , 12s or 15s … |
| 26 | In the present case the jury could have been in no doubt where the burden of proof lay . |
| 27 | The local press in Dyfed have been in no doubt that the bank were to blame to ruining a business of the type desperately needed in the area . |
| 28 | However , since he left school he has been in no further trouble with the police and , although unemployed , remains happily at home with his family . |
| 29 | But even on a cursory examination the doctor had been in no doubt . |
| 30 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |