Example sentences of "[det] [is] no [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , 2 rounds after its appearance a very dramatic change flares around it : if the adventurers have backed off this is no problem for them , if they have n't ( e.g. , fear effects have caused people to be rooted to the spot , they 're trying to talk to the Ghost , etc ) then the spirit is a dangerous opponent . |
| 2 | Of course , with benefit of experience , this is no problem in everyday work . |
| 3 | The fact that many do much more than this is no tribute to the perversities of the system . |
| 4 | ( This is no doubt in some way concerned with the employee 's honesty. ) 2 The nature of the information itself Information will only be protected if it can properly be classed as a business secret or as material which , while not properly described as a business secret is , in all the circumstances , of such a highly confidential nature as to require the same protection as a business secret eo nomine . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's irrelevant and this is no court of law . |
| 6 | ‘ I have not touched , ’ said Radulfus , ‘ for this is no asking of mine or any here . |
| 7 | This is no hour for conversation . |
| 8 | This is no quest for some Utopia . |
| 9 | This is no defence at all . |
| 10 | But since virtually all phyla of animals have planktonic larvae , this is no help in solving the puzzle . |
| 11 | This is no criticism of my GP nor of the Health Service , far from it . |
| 12 | This is no criticism of your position . |
| 13 | When the Independent crows ‘ Let's face it , a sick bag is a sick bag ’ I feel that this is no way of speaking of some unfortunate woman ; or of another who , according to her husband , ‘ had cast off clothes at the jumble sale ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ If A. be indicted and convicted of felony , but hath neither judgment of death , nor hath prayed his clergy , this is no bar of a new indictment for the same offence , if the first were insufficient … and it seems , though it were sufficient , yet it is no bar without clergy or judgment ; … |
| 15 | True in its first incarnation , only last year and at the same venue , it played to packed houses but this is no reflection on its merit , merely an indication of popular appetites for down market products . |
| 16 | This is no excuse for Sam , but it shows maybe where criticisms like Edwin Muir 's break down . |
| 17 | However , this is no excuse for inaction , for a number of systems have been described which are of considerable assistance ; for example , the Telford system which relies largely on professional judgement can be used to good effect ( 1 ) . |
| 18 | Often discrimination in education is unintentional , although this is no excuse in law , and usually indirect . |
| 19 | This is no occasion for jubilation , certainly not celebration . |
| 20 | Though all triangles have angles equal to two right angles , having this is no part of their essence or definition . |
| 21 | This is no part of our true self . |
| 22 | This is no exercise in abstract economics for British Coal , ' Mr. Clarke stressed . |
| 23 | The buxom Mlle Gilles is called upon every 10 minutes to reveal her all ( or three-quarters of it ) and while this is no sight to be despised , she could have appeared stark-naked from beginning to end and still failed to distract our attention from the movie 's essential mediocrity . ’ |
| 24 | This is no night for hanging about in the air . ’ |
| 25 | Yet when he and other top men at GE are asked why the company has only one foreigner on its 19-member board of directors , they insist that this is no obstacle to making the company truly global . |
| 26 | In every instance God takes the initiative — this is no agreement between equal parties . |
| 27 | This is no victory for women , even though it is of very important material benefit to them . |
| 28 | A triple archway in white stone was also built across the entrance to the courtyard ; this is no improvement to the chateau but it is not , to be fair , quite disastrous either . |
| 29 | A decade after the Scarman report on Brixton and on the evidence from our more troubled communities , this is no time for any of us to strike traditional postures . |
| 30 | This is no time for sorrow |