Example sentences of "[ex0] was [adv] no " in BNC.
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1 | At that time after the conquest there was effectively no ‘ thought ’ ( recorded discourse ) outside the religious framework and institutions . |
2 | We therefore conclude that the provisions for payments contained in these two agreements … were incapable in law of creating a joint tenancy , because the monetary obligations of the two parties were not joint obligations and there was accordingly no complete unity of interest . |
3 | Large pieces of timber take some considerable time to come to equilibrium with the surrounding humidity and , because the English weather changes so often , there was generally no time to build up dangerous differences in swelling strains so that we had comparatively little trouble from this cause , so long as the aircraft were in this country . |
4 | There was thus no need for the statutory machinery for appeals against assessments to be used . |
5 | Britain was now to receive the most advanced submarine-launched missile system ; there was thus no continuing strategic need for a British effort in space . |
6 | There was thus no direct relation ( perhaps except for ND5 ) between the quantity of mitochondrial genes and the equilibrium concentration of their transcripts . |
7 | President-elect Chamorro added her call for a ceasefire , stating in a broadcast on Feb. 28 that the causes of the war had disappeared , that there was thus no more reason to fight , and that Nicaraguans should return home . |
8 | You also notice that , because this plot development requires the couple to have been childless , there was clearly no previous necessity for either of them to stay at home . |
9 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
10 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
11 | There was clearly no gold to dig up , and the Indians did not look like becoming docile tenants — the question was whether they might not instead drive the newcomers into the sea . |
12 | On this hypothesis there was clearly no place for review of findings of fact , in the sense of determining whether the evidence justified the application of a statutory term to particular facts . |
13 | She wanted to tell her that perhaps the plan — the dark colours , the new name — was n't necessary any more , that there was an awareness between herself and Tom today that almost made her believe he did share her feelings , but with Tom himself in the room , and Bill as well , and Mrs Porter coming in now with Faye 's mid-afternoon snack and a pot of tea for everyone , there was clearly no opportunity . |
14 | Christianson & Loftus ( 1987 ) , unfortunately , report their data in such a way that it is difficult to know whether retrograde and anterograde effects were present , however , there was clearly no interaction of effects with retention interval ( 20 minutes versus 2 weeks ) . |
15 | There was clearly no point in arguing with the man any longer , she consoled herself , wearily removing her short-sleeved ivory silk blouse and the skirt of the pin-striped navy suit in which she 'd gone to work that morning . |
16 | Whatever happened , however far he was driven by forces outside his control , there was surely no way in which a man with only 67 12s. 9d. could find himself acquiring a delightful property or superior detached residence . |
17 | Of the centre there was yet no news , but battle there could hardly have been fully joined . |
18 | Tim would almost certainly deny having been on board and there was already no one to corroborate her story about the disturbance in the lounge . |
19 | Early government line , from Michael Portillo , the Treasury chief secretary , to Widdecombe , was that there was categorically no special help and that price rises would ‘ by the normal route feed through into the retail price index ’ . |
20 | There was evidently no recourse to Rule XXII under which a vote of " five-sixths of the whole of the financial members " was required . |
21 | There was evidently no absolute labour shortage , if only because the reserve armies of the rural population ( at home and abroad ) were now for the first time advancing en masse upon the industrial labour markets . |
22 | There was evidently no such finality about the second great natural science , perhaps the most flourishing of all in the nineteenth century , chemistry . |
23 | Since mallards do not dive there was presumably no great competition between the two species for food but with over 100 birds on such a small stretch of water it was difficult to see how there could be enough to go round . |
24 | In the circumstances of the present case there was either no breach , or no breach sufficiently substantial to be capable of triggering exclusion . |
25 | When Charles moved in to Highgrove there was practically no garden at all , just acres of lawn and some box hedges . |
26 | Conceivably , if the revolt had spread to take in substantial parts of the country then , to anticipate Maoist precepts of the future , the countryside would have surrounded the cities ; but at this time not only were there no ‘ sympathetic detonations ’ in other parts of the country but there was practically no challenge whatever to French power in the cities . |
27 | Perhaps there was a glimmer of hope in 1949 when someone of the stature ( rather than the disposition ) of de Gaulle might have seized the burning brand ; and four years later Mendès France could face the unacceptable although by then there was practically no alternative . |
28 | And then after when there was practically no erm commercial trade with them at that time . |
29 | Herluin was there at Tutilo 's own request , since there was ultimately no help for it , and Prior Robert was not to be left out where Herluin was admitted . |
30 | His Lordship rejected that argument and said that there was here no true analogy with personal injuries cases . |