Example sentences of "[det] [be] no [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At times some of Hong Kong 's islands were joined to the mainland ; at others some were no doubt submerged .
2 Some were no doubt replacements for periodic meetings at pagan sites or in cemeteries with crosses .
3 Many of the courses are privately owned and out of bounds to casual visitors , but this is no problem as Florida has more golf courses than any other state — 930 .
4 If you can go again this is no problem , but for the once-only visitor it is a great pity .
5 This is no problem if you are using a charting device but will require extra calculation if you want to follow the written pattern where the numbers stated for rows and stitches will now apply .
6 This is no problem if you are using a charting device but will require extra calculation if you want to follow the written pattern where the numbers stated for rows and stitches will not now apply .
7 However , 2 rounds after its appearance a very dramatic change flares around it : if the adventurers have backed off this is no problem for them , if they have n't ( e.g. , fear effects have caused people to be rooted to the spot , they 're trying to talk to the Ghost , etc ) then the spirit is a dangerous opponent .
8 Provided that news bulletins are shown at agreed times across the country , for example at 5.45pm and 10pm , this is no problem .
9 Of course , with benefit of experience , this is no problem in everyday work .
10 This is no problem if you are in BBCBASIC(Z80) 's immediate mode where the computer is waiting for you to type something .
11 ‘ If you 're taken sick — this is no infirmary , Miss Malcolm — ‘
12 The fact that many do much more than this is no tribute to the perversities of the system .
13 This is no holiday ; it 's a hospital .
14 But this is no merit .
15 But never forget , he admonished himself , that this is no proof that the larger is n't accountable also .
16 This is no lightplane : from nose to rudder the 700 is nothing but a small Airbus .
17 part of the reason for this is no doubt Eliot 's hostility to ideas about ‘ social progress ’ one aspect of which was the eugenics movement .
18 In any case , this is no doubt the last time the Gooch–Micky Stewart partnership will be operating for England .
19 Theoretically , they were so determined and this is no doubt the explanation of the plethora of patently spurious genealogies that litter the contemporary and later literature .
20 This is no doubt partly a reflection of the way in which people with bank accounts do have a wider range of credit options open to them than people without .
21 This is no doubt why much the commonest comment made about credit cards in the main 1979 survey ( by nearly half those questioned ) was that they encourage you to spend too much ; it was also the commonest comment made about stores accounts .
22 This is no doubt reinforced by the fact that the Asian elephant is the species always seen in circuses .
23 This is no doubt the result of frequent visits to the fridge ( most people have one ) and too many sweets with meals ( four a day are customary ) .
24 This is no doubt why we find employers from now on not only buying machines more readily , but also setting women to work on them , a combination which aroused the union to sudden awareness of the threat .
25 ( Diodorus ' universal history is weighted towards Sicily in the classical period , conspicuously so in book xiv which covers 404387 ; , this is no doubt partly because he was Sicilian himself . )
26 This is no doubt because it is the Government which would , on the hypothesis that section 47 was invalid because inconsistent with article 30 , have failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that section 47 was amended or repealed as necessary .
27 This is no doubt a matter which the magistrate should take into account when considering whether a witness 's evidence is to be rejected as worthless ; and I have no doubt that in the present case the magistrate did take it into account , together with the fact that Price had retracted his earlier evidence implicating the applicant , when deciding whether to make an order for committal .
28 This is no doubt a remarkable curve .
29 The finish of the Athens copy seems both clearer and subtler , though this is no doubt due in part to overworking of the Choiseul-Gouffier during its long modern history .
30 Certainly there are exceptions : ( 5 ) Alec 's shoes are real leather Intuition leaves no room for hesitation in taking this as an example of assignment , with leather used purely descriptively , rather than of equation , but the occurrence of the adjective real indicates that leather is nonetheless a noun ( this is no doubt partly possible because the adjective leathern has dropped out of use in modern English , and because leather itself is a mass noun able to occur without a preceding article ) .
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