Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his last memoirs , written in his second exile , he wrote that before 1953 , " I had been no more than a hereditary sovereign , but now I had truly been elected by the people . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean — well , I 've been no worse than plenty of other guys , but anyway it 's — irrelevant now . ’ |
| 3 | When she 'd called him , she 'd been no closer to Vine Street than the corridor pay phone just around the corner . |
| 4 | She had been no worse and no better than the three women who had preceded her in Alexandra 's life , all driven away in the end by the isolation and the powerful ghosts . |
| 5 | To Willi and Gerda she had been no more than a romantic inspiration , a cardboard figure of tinsel who ceased to exist when the curtain came down . |
| 6 | Fletcher ( 1990 ) has argued for the extension of cervical screening after the age of 65 years but as yet there has been no similar argument for breast cancer screening . |
| 7 | There has been no similar move in the British parties , although Conservative party conferences have always had a high proportion of women delegates . |
| 8 | There has been no general attempt to rewrite the history of the period from a perspective based on changes in consumption and material culture ( though see Mukerji 1983 ) , but two examples may be suggestive , the first derived from historians and the second from studies of material culture . |
| 9 | There has been no political pressure from the Foreign Office or elsewhere to prevent the exhibition . |
| 10 | At most libraries student numbers have increased but there has been no corresponding increase in the number of librarians . |
| 11 | But there has been no corresponding development of graphics technology , until now , that is . |
| 12 | The beneficiary 's account is now larger and there has been no corresponding decrease in another domestic bank account to match it , as would have been the case had the transaction been purely domestic , and thus not created further credit . |
| 13 | Mike Stein demonstrates that this is another area of child care in which there has been no large-scale research , but the numbers of small studies available show that the ‘ crude stereotype ’ of care leavers being 18-year olds without families , who have spent their lives in large institutions , must be abandoned . |
| 14 | Why is it that , despite such large financial contributions to the less developed regions , there has been no appreciable improvement in their relative economic performance ? |
| 15 | Ideal conditions are when there has been no appreciable rain for some months , followed by a sizzling hot June and July . |
| 16 | There has been no discernable decline in the stream of allegations of torture and extra-judicial killing reaching Amnesty International since the formation of the new government . |
| 17 | Probably there has been no real change . |
| 18 | ‘ There has been no real determination in their opposition since the London demonstration of 1991 , and that was led by Ayrshire farmers . |
| 19 | While his schedule would appear to most to be a fairly exhaustive one Best is actually looking forward to the weekend , ‘ The first since September when there has been no real pressure on me . |
| 20 | To date , despite a wealth of experience , there has been no standard approach that adequately covers all the varied aspects of value for money auditing . |
| 21 | Moreover , ever since the failure of attempts to include restrictions on retaliation or reprisals in the Brussels Code of 1874 , there has been no explicit prohibition of reprisals in the codes of the laws of war . |
| 22 | As a careful analysis of the data states , ‘ Quite simply there has been no Thatcherite transformation of attitudes or behaviour among the British public . |
| 23 | However , as the National Old People 's Welfare Committee noted ( 1963:6 ) , ‘ Since then there has been no apparent official action to promote the employment of elderly people ’ . |
| 24 | A problem that arises in the Timor Gap case is that , although the circumstances of Indonesia 's invasion of East Timor in December 1975 are well known , there has been no authoritative judicial determination of its illegality , or of the legitimacy of Portugal 's claim to be the continuing administering authority . |
| 25 | ‘ But within our association there has been no noticable number of bankruptcies . |
| 26 | ‘ But within our association there has been no noticable number of bankruptcies . |
| 27 | It was done by Sadlers Wells in the late forties , but there has been no new production until this recent one in the opera . |
| 28 | There has been no such softening in the rest of the world , which the west has now taken under its protective tutelage . |
| 29 | However , there has been no such disengagement , let alone direct argument against such texts in general . |
| 30 | State if there has been no such contract . |