Example sentences of "is no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in 1777 there were minor tremors in Manchester , he observed — not without a certain satisfaction — ‘ There is no divine visitation which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners as an earthquake . ’ |
| 2 | God is no divine monster whose existence can be sounded out by the aerial equivalent of the sophisticated underwater sonar equipment used to test for the presence of Nessie . |
| 3 | If there is no divine law men must try to agree among themselves what is right and what is wrong . |
| 4 | There is no official policy of deliberately choosing partners for their compatibility , whether in terms of personality , age , experience , or religion , and long-standing partnerships do not develop informally because of the frequent transfers of staff to other duties or to new stations altogether . |
| 5 | There is no official collection because it is immediately picked over by a series of scavengers — first adults , then children , then dogs and cats . |
| 6 | Cause no damage : there is no official right of-way . |
| 7 | While there is no official price , $400,000 is a ball-park figure that has been bandied about . |
| 8 | Gradually , through such experiences , these people find there is no official source of order in two of the social worlds they know the best , school and home . |
| 9 | There is no official definition or British Standard , and the description covers a multitude of different materials with different qualities . |
| 10 | There is no official limit to the fees chargeable to clients who are not legally aided , so that when practitioners in a particular speciality are in short supply , their fees rise . |
| 11 | There is no official party whipping . |
| 12 | There is no official ‘ core curriculum ’ , but the evidence available suggests that PGCE courses spend most of the time covering common ground . |
| 13 | There is no official index to the whole scheme , although an index has been published . |
| 14 | There is no official model and the procedure for any given reference depends on the expert clause in the original contract between the parties and subsequent directions by the expert . |
| 15 | This provision overcomes the difficulty mentioned above that where a company is ceasing to trade there is no justifying rationale for such payments because there is no future flow of profits that present ‘ generosity ’ to employees might help increase . |
| 16 | And there is no gratuitous information to get in the way . |
| 17 | If it can be shown , therefore , that a transfer of property takes place to satisfy the claim of the former wife ( ie that there is no gratuitous benefit intended ) there should be no charge on the transfer to inheritance tax . |
| 18 | Improved recognition rates can be achieved , the process is no slower , and has obvious leanings to parallelisation of at least some stages of the recognition process . |
| 19 | There is no actual eye-spot , but the effect is just as compelling , with the curved lines shrinking to smaller and smaller circles as they approach the tail . |
| 20 | What is more contentious is the claim that Candida overgrowth in the gut can affect other parts of the body , where there is no actual infection . |
| 21 | However , the Directive does not apply to holdings in open-ended investment companies or other collective investment undertakings ; nor does it apply to holdings in companies incorporated outside the EC , although such companies which are listed on a stock exchange in a member state must make a public announcement of changes in major holdings of which they become aware ( even though there is no actual notification requirement ) . |
| 22 | But be warned — there is no actual cure for feeling like death warmed up . |
| 23 | In practice processions appear to have a favoured place providing there is no actual obstruction , that they are peaceful and that police directions are observed ( see Hirst v. Chief Constable of West Yorks ( C.A. , 1986 ) ) . |
| 24 | There is no actual shortage of specific studies , though here , as elsewhere , much more remains to be done . |
| 25 | The much publicised schism between Adobe and Apple followed by the latter 's siding with Microsoft — a company it was then attacking in the courts — all seems a little strange , especially so as there is no actual product involved , only a ‘ standard ’ . |
| 26 | Although the characteristic case of an affray involves fighting in public , there may be in cases where there is no actual violence applied to the person of another , since the offence is capable of commission by those who threaten violence . |
| 27 | It may be that there is no actual overflowing , but rather a strong smell of drains — particularly by the front gate . |
| 28 | There is no actual flow of solvent in the Mechrolab instrument . |
| 29 | Someone who says there is no actual entity separate from the world called beauty could still be a chap who believed that the word ‘ beautiful ’ had a vivid and important use . |
| 30 | Indeed , it has actually done all these things and more — yet there is no internal , legal mechanism to resist such measures . |