Example sentences of "no [det] [noun sg] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no such liability where the agreement was void . |
| 2 | There is , of course , no such difficulty if the evidence sought , though owned by a foreign corporation , is physically located within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States . |
| 3 | For a pre-exposed stimulus there will be no such effect since the tendency to evoke unconditioned suppression will have habituated . |
| 4 | In isolation , there is no such thing as a price that is ‘ too high ’ . |
| 5 | It is a trite observation that there is no such thing as a standard of International Law , extraneous to the domestic law of a kingdom , to which appeal may be made . |
| 6 | There was no such thing as a casualty , everything was gathered . |
| 7 | " There 's no such thing as a work-line , " I said , irritable through misery that he wanted to go . |
| 8 | There 's no such thing as a love affair unless there is an exchange . |
| 9 | DISGRACED David Mellor learned there was no such thing as a freebie as he was finally prised from his Cabinet seat last night . |
| 10 | The shark was simply after a free meal , but as his parents would have advised him there is no such thing as a freebie . |
| 11 | Whereas Ollie happens to have spotted that nowadays there is no such thing as a short-cut in London : all the back roads are dogged up by master cartologists such as Stu , petrol-pinching aficionados of kink and gully who spin their Oldsmobile Mantras into canny U-turns like instructors on the skid-rink . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's no such thing as a slave in England . |
| 13 | ALDERSON B. : If this agreement were good , there could be no such thing as a nudum pactum . |
| 14 | There is , after all , no such thing as a privilege of Parliament in the strict sense . |
| 15 | There 's no such thing as a text book jump and catch in international rugby : I was naive in thinking so . |
| 16 | There 's no such thing as a hero — only ordinary people asked extraordinary things in terrible circumstances-and delivering . |
| 17 | Sir John Harvey-Jones is fond of saying that there is no such thing as a business standing still . |
| 18 | Sh there 's no such thing as a limit with age . |
| 19 | Part of the chapter on motivation deals with obesity , and the discussion of theories of why we stuff ourselves is capped by a cartoon in which a chef tells a fat blimp ‘ As far as I know there 's no such thing as a diet cream puff . ’ |
| 20 | There was no such thing as a mother 's kiss . |
| 21 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 22 | And manager Graham confessed : ‘ In football , there is no such thing as a job for life . |
| 23 | If history is a process , Althusser remarks , ‘ there is no such thing as a process except in relations [ sous des rapports ] ’ . |
| 24 | He said that a solid body moving through a fluid medium such as air was in fact propelled by the air , which was cleft by the moving body and then rejoined behind it to provide the forward drive , for there could be no such thing as a vacuum , that is , mere nothingness . |
| 25 | There was no such thing as a vacuum cleaners or anything like that you know.And er er that 's just how it went on . |
| 26 | There is no such thing as a bargain either . |
| 27 | VOLUNTEER Gurkhas proved there is no such thing as a bridge too far by successfully completing one of the most gruelling tasks undertaken by military engineers in peacetime . |
| 28 | In his appendix to the History of Edinburgh Arnot states that in 1763 there was no such thing as an umbrella known or used in Edinburgh . |
| 29 | And by the same token , there is no such thing as an author , that is to say , one who originates a work of fiction ab nihilo . |
| 30 | ‘ There is no such thing as an accident , ’ replied Tock . |