Example sentences of "[be] [verb] no [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London had been given no such attention , but The London Society since 1912 had been undertaking work which was brought together in essays edited by Sir Aston Webb ( 1921 ) . |
| 2 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 3 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 4 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're doing no such thing , ’ he informed her with dangerous calm . |
| 6 | I am doing no such thing . |
| 7 | In answering the question posed by the preliminary issue in this case affirmatively I believe that I am doing no more than giving the answer that is clearly called for by application of the common law principles of the law of negligence . |
| 8 | But voters whose preferences have been distributed between these two parties will have been doing no more than indicate acceptable alternatives , of which the basic pattern must have been , " Let that candidate of Party B have my vote IF and only IF my higher preference for this candidate of Party A has not been effective " . |
| 9 | Today 's attraction-merchants are doing no more to lure 20th-century tourists than their medieval forebears did for pilgrims . |
| 10 | But in having to work together they are doing no more than thousands of couples and millions of professional people who may not like each other but who understand that there are times when they must look positive . |
| 11 | And nor should they be , for if my contention is correct , they are simply discovering new applications for that basic idea of popular power ; they are doing no more than engaging in the latest reinterpretation , or fresh application , of the classic democratic idea . |
| 12 | Region IV is curved , so its representation should be considered no more than schematic . |
| 13 | His violence towards them might even be deemed no more than a Satanic desire to get them used to the notion of reigning in Hell rather than serving in Heaven . |
| 14 | This delay suggests that he had not intended his angry words to be taken literally , but at least one of his sons was clearly capable of making trouble , while claiming to be doing no more than carrying out his father 's wishes . |
| 15 | He justified his policy to the Chiefs of Staff by arguing , ‘ We shall be doing no more than what has been done in Italy … in turning people who were satellites … into co-belligerents . ’ |
| 16 | Felt the same way and he said as you can see Ann 's here we wo n't be having no more of that . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm doing no such thing . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm doing no such thing ! ’ |
| 19 | I 'm doing no more than many other runners who will be running at London and I have no pretensions of being in the top finishers . |
| 20 | If he wants to fondle you , you snap at his hands and say , ‘ I 'm having no more of it ! ’ |
| 21 | that 's it , I 'm having no more of it ! |
| 22 | After that I 'm making no more promises . |
| 23 | Research studies in the US and the UK have found that young people are drinking no more than they were 20 years ago and that the vast majority drink sensibly . |
| 24 | By contrast , even those who have spent all of their working lives with Leyland in the UK are being given no more than the minimum provided by the state . |
| 25 | Having raised expectations , he went on to limit that help to just 100,000 people ; and of those 100,000 , 60,000 were offered no more than the chance to work on a community scheme for next to nothing . |
| 26 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 27 | In accepting the payments the revenue were doing no more than agreeing that they would not be treated as prejudicing any such right . |
| 28 | In saying that the power exists we were doing no more than to reaffirm the unlimited nature of the court 's inherent jurisdiction over minors , a jurisdiction which empowers and may require the court to override the wishes of a minor , even if he or she has sufficient understanding to make an informed decision . |
| 29 | said that if the defendants were doing no more than perform an obligation already cast upon them by law there was no consideration for the plaintiffs agreement not to sue . |
| 30 | But the authors insisted that they were doing no more than " vindicating and asserting … antient rights and liberties " . |