Example sentences of "[prep] no [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angina and ST depression were of no predictive value . |
| 2 | The police officer 's initial response in evidence — he was ‘ satisfied that it was of no evidential value to our case ’ — was unfortunate and regarded by the judge as ‘ striking , ’ notwithstanding his later qualification that it was of no value in any direction . |
| 3 | I listened but if it 's of no evidential value there is no point in listening because I 've got so much on my mind at that time erm to sort out that threat in there that I certainly ca n't recall what was exactly said or even along the lines of what was said . |
| 4 | The dead are impersonal , and so perhaps it is of no especial moment that they should be disturbed — or so I might once have argued on Victor 's behalf . |
| 5 | The first I ever heard of " pathfinding " was after briefing in June 1940 , when most Whitley crews in No 4 Group , Bomber Command averaged 25 sorties that month after the breakthrough in the Low Countries , Flg Off " Jimmy " Marks of No 77 Squadron ( later Wg Cdr J.H. Marks DSO . |
| 6 | On re-entering the RAF , DCT was made an acting wing commander and , after a short period , was given command of No 77 Squadron flying Whitleys which , with his background , must have been a daunting experience . |
| 7 | The capital has remained an area of open fighting between armed bands under the control of no one faction . |
| 8 | The very motto of the Society , ‘ Nullius in Verba ’ ( ’ In the words of no one else' ) , encapsulates this general rejection of the authority of the past . |
| 9 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 10 | And an artfully crafted series of graphical devices , dotted across a corporate review , may be of no informational consequence just ‘ designer confetti ’ . ’ |
| 11 | Alternatively it may be of great specialist interest to the readers of a particular set of publications but of no personal interest or use to the staff on those journals . |
| 12 | My item about station magazines in the Summer issue has prompted Clifford H Frost of Torquay branch to send a copy of The Tiger Rag , the official magazine of No 5 Air School , Witbank , Transvaal . |
| 13 | New to the car the circuit and the formula , Mario took pole position ahead of the eventual winner , Jackie Stewart , Graham Hill , John Surtees , Dan Gurney , Jo Siffert and Bruce McLaren , four champions and two others of no indifferent talent . |
| 14 | Originally a triple-purpose breed developed in the seventeenth century at a Benedictine abbey , the sturdy Aubrac ( or Laguiole ) is now primarily a beef type , though of no great size , the bulls averaging 130cm tall and 825kg , and the cows 125cm and 600kg . |
| 15 | It was a very ordinary , rather pleasant , Highland country house ; originally a shooting-lodge and of no great size or importance for the day when it was built . |
| 16 | Further along is Jingle Pot , another large crater of no great depth . |
| 17 | Foxe describes how ‘ Master Tyndale , a man of no great stature ’ , was courteously persuaded to walk ahead , whilst the tall and comely Philips behind him pointed over his head ‘ so that the officers who sat at the door might see that it was he whom they should take ; as the officers that took Master Tyndale afterwards told Poyntz , they pitied to see his simplicity when they took him . ’ |
| 18 | There are many differences of opinion amongst economists about the relative power of fiscal policy and monetary policy to influence the position of the aggregate demand curve , but these debates are of no great concern to the question we are dealing with here . |
| 19 | The abrupt cessation of the draughts blowing into the room was a welcome relief , although Isabel was so chilled by now that she was conscious of no great change in the temperature . |
| 20 | In some cases , and especially where the witness has no interest in the outcome of the case , the lost opportunity to assess demeanour is of no great significance ; in others it is too great a price to pay . |
| 21 | This is true , but of no great significance since it is easy to modify the model developed above and make it immune from this particular criticism , while ensuring that all its important features are retained . |
| 22 | In the empty south , where virgin steppe country turned into livestock ranges and thereafter wheat lands , serfdom was of no great significance . |
| 23 | It would be of no great help to pronounce the body of an object genuine if the interest , and hence the value , lay in the inscription . |
| 24 | If you go north from Porta Venezia , taking Corso Buenos Aires to reach Via Palazzi , and taking the third turning to the left , you can view what remains of the Lazzaretto , the church of San Carlo — of no great merit despite being the work of Il Pellegrini — and a section of the portico that forms part of the northern section of the school at No.12 Via Tadino , the first road crossed by Via Palazzi . |
| 25 | In 1786 he published his Observations of the Efficacy of Cold-bathing in the Prevention and Cure of Diseases , a treatise of no great originality on a fashionable subject . |
| 26 | Polling , in short , is a grubby profession of no great consequence . |
| 27 | Now , a true Brit like Brian may delude himself that this is of no great consequence since Scotland is just a part of Britain and no different from a region of England . |
| 28 | There are many situations when the order is of no great consequence , for example a safety audit of a new machine , and in this latter case some logical structure is needed . |
| 29 | IT IS of no great consequence to the rest of the world that a small island off the end of the Indian subcontinent should have sunk over the past couple of decades into a condition of violence so endemic that the murder of the president and a leading opposition politician within eight days can be regarded by the locals with something like equanimity ( see page 71 ) . |
| 30 | In the early years of the republic these were factors of no great consequence , but they have assumed great importance since the movement of the United States on to the world stage in the twentieth century . |