Example sentences of "[be] no [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're no stranger to conspiracy , that 's for certain . |
| 2 | You 're no good to man or beast . |
| 3 | According to Mosley , the interruptions showed the necessity for the fascists to have a defence force and demonstrated that for many years past there had been no freedom of speech in the country . |
| 4 | It seems to me quite certain that , if for four centuries there had been a very widely extended franchise and a very large elected body in this country , there would have been no reformation of religion , no change of dynasty , no toleration of Dissent , not even an accurate Calendar . |
| 5 | At his trial , the judge rejected his submission that there was no case to answer in that the goods had been sold under a contract between the customer and the shop and that there had been no appropriation of property belonging to another . |
| 6 | Another one in three said that there had been no choice of credit terms available . |
| 7 | There seems to have been no element of corruption in this , despite the involvement of Poulson in a range of corrupt activities in the North East in the 1960s . |
| 8 | There had been no hesitation of course with regard to the captain who , despite rumours and only rumours about his taste for low company — which she supposed any military man might possess — was a Goldsborough of Frizingley with nothing really known against him but his preference for living in a tavern . |
| 9 | But she said there had been no discussion about internment . |
| 10 | No sense of urgency or enthusiasm here , just as there had been no promise of support in the seamen 's ballot of the previous June . |
| 11 | An NRA spokesman said the spillage had been traced back to the Lartington Treatment Works , where there had been no threat to drinking water . |
| 12 | Some of the farms put under restrictions yesterday have already supplied milk for public consumption , but officials were confident there had been no threat to health . |
| 13 | But there has been no sign of panic flight as they remain convinced that they can still leave Libya by road , albeit at the cost of a 12-hour drive through the desert . |
| 14 | The French have just joined Russia in declaring that they will temporarily halt testing ; Boris Yeltsin could be under pressure to rescind Russia 's test ban in September if there has been no sign of flexibility from Britain and the US . |
| 15 | Although he acknowledged that there had " been no sign of flexibility " during his talks with Hammadi , Rafsanjani asked rhetorically why he should not meet Saddam Hussein " if there is hope for the salvation of the Iraqi nation " , and added that it would be " logical " to talk to the US administration if the pursuit of peace made it necessary . |
| 16 | On the Lantonment and river sides of the banqueting hall there had been no firing of chain shot to clear the jungle : this was partly to save powder , partly because the banqueting hall was , anyway , higher than the surrounding land and thus more difficult to surprise ; there were also natural clearings to be seen here and there where the ground was too stony for a thick growth . |
| 17 | They say there has been no shortage of interest in the project from potential backers . |
| 18 | There has been no shortage of material for his autobiography , What 's It All About ? |
| 19 | If there had been no question of acquiescence in this case , these children would have been returned to Australia pursuant to the order of Thorpe J. shortly after it was made on 20 December 1991 . |
| 20 | Had the Tuairisc model been adopted , there would have been no question of NICRA initiating demonstrations in Dungannon or Derry ; this would have been the responsibility of purely local groups . |
| 21 | There has been no strike in agriculture since 1923 and the instinct of the farm worker is to shun rather than seek the kind of publicity which would be required to engender public support for his cause . |
| 22 | There has been no strike in agriculture in England since 1923 . |
| 23 | There has been no payment on account . |
| 24 | Four years ago there had been no payment on account scheme . |
| 25 | Granulomas can be due to a wide variety of causes but other investigations were negative and there has been no evidence of tuberculosis or other infecton on follow-up . |
| 26 | But the sources said that so far there had been no change of plan . |
| 27 | The historical reasons underlying the emergence of these principles , as explained by Dixon J. in Yerkey v. Jones , 63 C.L.R. 649 , may explain why cases , in which there had been no disposition of property by the surety wife but merely the acceptance by her of a contractual obligation to pay her husband 's debts , did not attract the same approach as the cases in which security over property had been given . |
| 28 | There has been no word of apology or interest paid on money retained . |
| 29 | Since her father 's death she had written regularly to her grandfather , but there had been no word in reply from Hester . |
| 30 | Yet there 's been no increase in demand from advocates of ‘ organic ’ vegetables for the tens of thousands of allotments that lie untended throughout our land . |