Example sentences of "[is] no [adj] [noun sg] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ There is no greater hypocrisy than a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle . |
| 2 | I have always felt chastened by an academic maxim that there is no greater error than a problem wrongly stated . |
| 3 | His first day in 1924 watching his county , Sussex , convinced him that there is no greater moment than a big hit : ‘ As I walked into the ground a ball came bouncing off the Town Hall roof and nearly hit me on the head . |
| 4 | For the regulationists history , to use a delightful phrase of Aglietta 's , is ‘ innovatory ’ : there is no cyclical repetition but a succession of phases which only emerge and come to an end as a resuIt of their own characteristics and particular historical circumstances . |
| 5 | We may , following Hirsch , accept that there is no such thing as a poetic or aesthetic essence ; but we can say that such texts are rewarding when approached in aesthetic terms , or , in Lewis 's words , are read in literary ways . |
| 6 | For the five contracts dealt with in this article , there is no such thing as a ‘ standard ’ agreement . |
| 7 | As with recording advances , there is no such thing as a typical figure , but for a non-performing writer , enough money to live on should be sought . |
| 8 | Above all , remember that there is no such thing as a safe bet . |
| 9 | If any among the new reality seekers had a slightly tougher memory , they would recall that there is no such thing as a happy family . |
| 10 | The problem for the US troops , as in the bombing attacks aimed at Colonel Gadafy 's Libyan regime , is that there is no such thing as a surgical military strike against targets surrounded by civilians , many of them in this case US citizens . |
| 11 | Of course there is no such thing as a forgery-proof identity card . |
| 12 | In examining some of the questions posed , we have to accept that within the UK , and for that matter in most of the rest of the world , there is no such thing as a natural environment . |
| 13 | To me there is no such thing as a holy relic or place . |
| 14 | ‘ There is no such thing as a bloodless insurrection . ’ |
| 15 | Lashley finally concluded that there is no such thing as a localised engram . |
| 16 | ‘ Nowadays , there is no such thing as a bad job . |
| 17 | There is no such thing as a bargain either . |
| 18 | And manager Graham confessed : ‘ In football , there is no such thing as a job for life . |
| 19 | That may be a ‘ price worth paying ’ to relieve recession , but if economics tells us anything it is that there is no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 20 | There is no such thing as a worthless book , though there are some far worse than worthless ; no book which is not worth preserving , if its existence may be tolerated ; as there are some men whom it may be proper to hang , but none who should be suffered to starve . |
| 21 | In a way , mentally , there is no such thing as a ‘ natural ’ driver . |
| 22 | Less comforting , though , is the realization that this concept implies that there is no such thing as a fixed reality — which is exactly what we observe on the subatomic scale . |
| 23 | But in spite of what is often claimed , there is no such thing as a dead marriage . |
| 24 | Another designer , this time a man , told me there is no such thing as a really new design , only a bit taken from here and something else added from there . |
| 25 | They argue that if the Greeks can demonstrate with exhibitions such as this that there is no such thing as a Macedonian culture in the former Yugoslavia , Serbian claims to cultural domination of the region are strengthened and Macedonia is more likely to suffer the kind of atrocities that Croatia and Bosnia have endured . |
| 26 | In isolation , there is no such thing as a price that is ‘ too high ’ . |
| 27 | If history is a process , Althusser remarks , ‘ there is no such thing as a process except in relations [ sous des rapports ] ’ . |
| 28 | Looked at this way , there is no such thing as a special kind of behaviour called ‘ political ’ ; there is only a political dimension to behaviour … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ In fact ’ , Julia utters , ‘ there is no such thing as a green product ’ . |
| 30 | There is festering resentment in dark green quarters over what is seen as Julia 's reluctance to state baldly that there is no such thing as a green product , or that continued consumption at the present rate can only lead to us all dying in some particularly horrible way . |