Example sentences of "been no [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the school system we have the possibility of schools opting out , although by 1990 there had been no rush to do so .
2 And there 's been no rush to the off switch .
3 If hed have stayed there would have been no hassles at all .
4 It would have been no secret to you that Connors of the Globe would tip me off if he found out a thing like that .
5 He said there had been no talks with the new Mercury-US West consortium about establishing a joint transmission network for the new mobile phones network .
6 W&M would only reiterate that its options remained open while Invergordon would only state there had been no talks with W&M regarding the proposed takeover .
7 According to Mosley , the interruptions showed the necessity for the fascists to have a defence force and demonstrated that for many years past there had been no freedom of speech in the country .
8 Mr Parretti , it seems , has been no Sam Goldwyn .
9 Although , as we have seen , there has been no core curriculum since 1905 , teachers have based their work upon key elements — that young children should be helped towards the mastery of the written and spoken word , and to have sufficient understanding of number .
10 Even if there no ad exists , and I 've had one or two where there 's been no ad
11 Had the Powells not come from England in 1609–10 there possibly would have been no Portadown , for a map of 1609 shows no trace of any settlement in the area .
12 Has a special fondness for books of notable provenance — such as Kenneth Clarke 's schoolboy copies of Berenson 's Florentine Painters laces with exquisite Wykehamist scribblings ; or a volume whose title page is inscribed with the words ‘ To Glen Byam Shaw , without whom there would probably have been no Memoirs of an Infantry Officer , from his friend SS ’ .
13 Upon the facts the decision seems to have been correct so far as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher goes , for all that the defendant had done was to plough up some forest land on which there had previously been no thistles but from which , for some unexplained reason , an immense crop of them sprang up in two successive years .
14 If instead of holding on to the property X had given the property to Y no inheritance tax will be in point provided Y farmed the property ( or X survived the gift by seven years ) but in that case there would have been no capital gains tax uplift on the death of X.
15 The buildings are the same as they were one hundred years ago ; there has been no development on this block .
16 Improvements of the breed have been no problem , for the Dutch have access to the best stud lines available in a German gene pool .
17 If it had been one of the local men , he explained to Sandison , there would have been no problem , but Maidstone was another matter .
18 There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’
19 This should have been no problem as she was a swimming champion of the South London Schools and had been in excellent health .
20 Tore Godal , the head of the Norwegian trials says that there has been no problem in finding altruistic Norwegians to volunteer .
21 He added : ‘ If somebody had known the bloody rules , they could have told us straight away and it would have been no problem at all .
22 There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name .
23 ‘ If they had allowed the airliner to land first , there would have been no problem .
24 If I was n't an animal-lover there would have been no problem , but when it comes to catching pigeons I draw the line at the fish-hook method on humanitarian grounds .
25 There had been no problem in finding a matching replacement for the cut piece ; a hardware shop in Inverness had supplied it , and it had taken only a few minutes to fit .
26 Either way , ransom would have been no problem .
27 And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all .
28 It is worth posing additional questions to promote discussion some that have been found to be useful are : If there had been no problem with the purchase of the bacon-curing business what would you have done with the £500 paid to the accountant ?
29 There would have been no possibility of winning her consent to handing him the tape , let alone the private detective 's report .
30 Apart from the time Gould would have spent stalking , shooting , skinning , and preparing these and a host of other birds , there would have been no possibility of him visiting all these different localities and reaching the west bend of the Murray .
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