Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [verb] no [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would have expected no less of you , Alice . |
| 2 | Thus it came about that if you walked into a bar in Babylon around 2000 B.C. you could have sampled no fewer than 16 different beers . |
| 3 | She would have had no such hopes in the old days , when Bill took pleasure in flouting normal expectations , seemed driven to flare up , to " create " as Mrs Orton might put it . |
| 4 | In the first place they may want to do no more than ensure that the Constitution is not altered casually or carelessly or by subterfuge or implication ; they may want to secure that this important document is not lightly tampered with , but solemnly , with due notice and deliberation , consciously amended . |
| 5 | He would have felt no less if he 'd been told that Berowne was dead of a coronary or killed in a car smash . |