Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [is] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that is no achievement at all . |
| 2 | From the outside world , only Edward III , the Black Prince , and Richard II entered his final thoughts , and that is no surprise . |
| 3 | And that is no answer , Miss Grimsilk , thought the Direktor . |
| 4 | The great all seem to have had this cross to bear , and that is no comfort — I think more is to be found in the wicked suspicion that perhaps it 's a thing those Snows have n't experienced . |
| 5 | ‘ I discovered , ’ he said , ‘ that in Germany other Polish players were not always paid what their contracts stated and that is no good . |
| 6 | We are waiting until they crash land and that is no good . ’ |
| 7 | Otherwise , it will be down to the usual international brinkmanship in Rio itself , and that 's no way to run a planet . |
| 8 | All I can make out is what I take to be the outer port engine and that 's no help at all . |
| 9 | And that 's no help at all is it . |
| 10 | If you got left behind by the Army you 'd be lucky to come back alive , and that 's no exaggeration . |
| 11 | yeah , we 've lost an enormous amount of staff probably a third of our staff disappeared in the last twelve months , and I think y you we must recognise it 's bound to make an impact and here we are sitting here feeling a bit shell shocked and that 's no doubt one of the contributory factors . |
| 12 | And that 's no good . |
| 13 | I 've only got a metal jug as well , and that 's no use for a microwave . |
| 14 | Because you 've got to laugh … and that 's no joke . |
| 15 | ‘ And that 's no reply , Madame . ’ |
| 16 | And that 's no bull |
| 17 | And that 's no reason not to communicate with them . |
| 18 | Mr Foley , formerly assistant to George Graham at Arsenal , said : ‘ It was my 55th birthday yesterday and this is no way to celebrate . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's irrelevant and this is no court of law . |
| 20 | Straight-faced now , Peggy said , ‘ Sherry is for occasions and this is no occasion , not even special company . ’ |
| 21 | A sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sculpture usually caters for all tastes and pockets and this is no exception . |
| 22 | Starting with cost reduction any cost reduction programme always involves a lot of redundancy and , and this is no exception and from the slide you 'll see that we 've er we 've had a staff reduction er , from the the plan for this year of one thousand and thirty three er and that 's the , that will save us in a full year something like fifteen point nine , sixteen million pounds . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The dreadful results are well-known and this is no place to trace the course of the events to their bitter culmination on a Midland plain . |
| 25 | Yours — and this is no euphemism , BILL FRANCIS |
| 26 | ‘ Not like Donna , but that 's no help . ’ |
| 27 | But that 's no surprise . |
| 28 | They scored first from what should have been our free-kick , but that 's no excuse because they played some excellent stuff . ’ |
| 29 | But that 's no excuse to sit on your backside cursing Michael Fish . |
| 30 | It will be doubtful if Bush or Clinton are tuning into their raps from the frontline , but that 's no excuse why you 're not glued to their every word . |