Example sentences of "[pron] 's [art] such [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no such name ! ’ |
| 2 | So it 's not there 's no such word . |
| 3 | THERE never was a Joe Bloggs — there 's no such surname . |
| 4 | If you are thinking of heading on towards the Capital there 's no such problems there , the M4 the M40 and the M25 running quite nicely this evening . |
| 5 | There 's no such problem with the GRID 9000 . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's no such street , ’ he said . |
| 7 | There 's no such justification for the LCD ( liquid crystal display ) screen : it 's just small . |
| 8 | In this story , however , there 's no such shame because Ruth has not been rejected . |
| 9 | There 's no such thing as a love affair unless there is an exchange . |
| 10 | This little shoemaker I 'm carving is a leprechaun [ he pronounced it ‘ leprehorn ’ ] and the priest will say there 's no such thing . |
| 11 | There 's no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 12 | There 's no such thing as a free lunch . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ There 's no such thing as upper class , ’ his father answered firmly . |
| 14 | To the professionals who work with troubled couples , however , there 's no such thing as the wronged spouse . |
| 15 | Part of the chapter on motivation deals with obesity , and the discussion of theories of why we stuff ourselves is capped by a cartoon in which a chef tells a fat blimp ‘ As far as I know there 's no such thing as a diet cream puff . ’ |
| 16 | There 's no such thing as an ‘ external vagina ’ . |
| 17 | Experts agree that there 's no such thing as an ‘ orthopaedic ’ bed — most are simply very , very firm which , far from curing a back problem , could actually aggravate it . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's no such thing as a slave in England . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's no such thing , ’ said Ivy firmly ; and as , if feminine intuition existed , she above all women would have been gifted with it , I think we must believe her . |
| 20 | There 's no such thing as a text book jump and catch in international rugby : I was naive in thinking so . |
| 21 | THERE 'S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH |
| 22 | As QC George Carman said towards the end of the Mona Bauwens court case earlier this week : ‘ There 's no such thing as a free lunch . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I think it was Victoria Wood who said that there 's no such thing as bad taste in humour because if it 's bad taste no one laughs . |
| 24 | There 's no such thing as impartial arbitration in El Salvador . |
| 25 | That means there 's no such thing as a " silly " question in a tutorial — provided it 's relevant . |
| 26 | Nietzsche , the German philosopher , adduced his argument from classical concepts — ‘ This proves that there 's no such thing as God ’ — but when quantum mechanics came along , it threw all that out of the window . |
| 27 | Simon , likewise , declared that ‘ there 's no such thing as class ; you 're only as good as you are ’ . |
| 28 | Reiterating that ‘ there 's no such thing as ‘ race ’ ’ offers only the frail reassurance that there should n't be a problem . |
| 29 | " There 's no such thing as a work-line , " I said , irritable through misery that he wanted to go . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's no such thing as a meaningless gesture , ’ he said , after emptying himself of that thought . |