Example sentences of "was [adv] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Timbmet 's solicitors will try to argue that because the wood was dead no harm could be caused by it 's sale . |
| 2 | At that time after the conquest there was effectively no ‘ thought ’ ( recorded discourse ) outside the religious framework and institutions . |
| 3 | Since mallards do not dive there was presumably no great competition between the two species for food but with over 100 birds on such a small stretch of water it was difficult to see how there could be enough to go round . |
| 4 | Sam Gristy , it was learnt , was to be his partner in the venture , though why that was so no one could make out , as the two men had hardly spoken three words together since the day Gristy won Martha for his wife . |
| 5 | With The Big Parade Vidor won new friends for American films but what had impressed MGM was that the film made money and also pointed to the way in which romance would be coupled with broader themes ; there was obviously no harm in indulging Vidor a little . |
| 6 | Everyone laughed again , but it was obviously no joking matter because Bunny flew into a rage , dancing up and down , sending the dust spiralling like fireflies above the footlights as he thundered , ‘ Quiet , please . ’ |
| 7 | But there was obviously no point in wasting any more time expecting to get results the easy way . |
| 8 | We tried to point out that the ‘ no deals ’ policy was obviously no deterrent to the kidnapping of Britons , but again , nobody really took much notice . |
| 9 | A young ‘ chic ’ girl placed herself in his empty place , fixing her eye liner in the fake sun light of the train , sighed as she looked around the carriage and then smiled to herself , there was obviously no competition so she failed to add an extra layer of lip-stick . |
| 10 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 11 | It was perhaps no coincidence that French was adopted by English departments of state during the Anglo-French rapprochement of that time . |
| 12 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 13 | He was moved and promising miracles , the recovery of things lost , the wholeness and holiness of things profaned ; but the faith she had professed was perhaps no more than a conviction that the star of the Prince of Aberffraw would not fail him , and that God would humour him and not cheat him of the fulfilment of his vow . |
| 14 | It was perhaps no wonder that he reacted against the spartan , puritanical environment of Potsdam . |
| 15 | Tace was married , so there was naturally no question of his marrying Helena . |
| 16 | Once the Soviet veto on change was withdrawn , there was suddenly no stopping point halfway . |
| 17 | Getting hold of Clarissa , wherever she was entertaining the troops and having her transported to London , was apparently no more than a mild challenge . |
| 18 | This seemed a race well beyond his stamina range , for the Grand National is over nearly four and a half miles and Crisp 's ideal distance was apparently no further than two and a half miles . |
| 19 | She reckoned that at this point , quite a few of them shed tears , but contrary to expectations there was apparently no Tiller flag hoisted or hymn sung . |
| 20 | One implication of these results is that soil erosion caused by the Spanish introduction of plough agriculture was apparently no more severe than that associated with traditional agricultural methods ; it is therefore questionable whether a return to traditional methods would have significant environmental benefits . |
| 21 | He had devised a purely verbal test of his daughters ' love , and while a devotee of Practical Criticism could soon have told him what was wrong with Goneril and Regan from their speeches alone , there was apparently no way in which he could discriminate them from Cordelia . |
| 22 | There was apparently no commission , however small , to which he refused to turn his hand . |
| 23 | The war was also a business in which it was apparently no easier than in peace to obtain just treatment for seaman , whatever hardships they might be suffering . |
| 24 | When he moved his head I caught sight of minute areas along his hairline where there was apparently no colour at all , as though the bistre shade of his face were a mask . |
| 25 | There was apparently no Soviet objection in January 1968 when , following economic and other difficulties , Antonín Novotný was replaced as party first secretary by Alexander Dubček , a Slovak who had received part of his education in the USSR . |
| 26 | Gould 's letter to Prince , dispatched shortly after a two-day jaunt into the interior of the island of Tenerife , was apparently no less exhilarating . |
| 27 | The Foxton Lift was thus no more , and the site became completely overgrown with scrub thorn and ash up to fifteen feet high . |
| 28 | There was thus no need for the statutory machinery for appeals against assessments to be used . |
| 29 | Britain was now to receive the most advanced submarine-launched missile system ; there was thus no continuing strategic need for a British effort in space . |
| 30 | There was thus no direct relation ( perhaps except for ND5 ) between the quantity of mitochondrial genes and the equilibrium concentration of their transcripts . |