Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] no [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young child faced with a row of cups and a pile of saucers might have no other way of finding whether he has enough saucers to put with the cups than to match them as far as possible , one-to-one . |
| 2 | We 'll go no fucking way |
| 3 | The vociferous one had a cape and a velvet waistcoat and was either more than a little tipsy , or had been so so often he could behave no other way . |
| 4 | The evaluators could see no easy way out of this particular problem , but note that a guarantee to the Coordinating Team of at least medium-term funding would be an advantage . |
| 5 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 6 | Anne knew she was treating Nina like a four-year-old , but could see no other way to cope with her . |
| 7 | He made it quite clear that he could see no other way out of the situation . |
| 8 | On the Liberal side , anger at the illegal campaign against Home Rule had made it equally difficult for Asquith to compromise , and he too could see no other way forward . |
| 9 | I could see no possible way of escape . |
| 10 | Dr Colman , of Fadmoor , north Yorkshire , sought GMC permission to place a factual , non-promotional advertisement in a local paper because he could find no other way to tell prospective patients of his services . |
| 11 | Dr Colman , of Fadmoor , north Yorkshire , sought GMC permission to place a factual , non-promotional advertisement in a local paper because he could find no other way to tell prospective patients of his services . |
| 12 | There was murder within marriage because a husband or a wife wanted life to be different and for one reason or another could find no other way to bring that about . |
| 13 | Were I inclined to a sense of responsibility , this factor alone would go no small way towards vitiating it . |
| 14 | Hence , to give warning , we shall find no easy way to combine a natural science approach with an interpretative one . |
| 15 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 16 | And I can see no other way of proceeding than that in which we proposed at the moment . |
| 17 | Moreover , we can have no theory-independent way of describing the world . |
| 18 | In fact there is no way out of his predicament because he can find no external way of authenticating the present : ‘ the more clearly the future could be seen , the more evident that it could validate nothing ’ ( Wheelis 1971 : 56 ) . |
| 19 | It is as if they can find no other way of being in school than one which feels phoney and uncongenial . |