Example sentences of "[is] no [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Turnip salad with capers is no shock today and raw choucroûte salad , an idea Pomiane had picked up in Moscow — buy very fresh choucroûte from the charcutier and stop at the village pump to wash it thoroughly , he told those of his French readers who went in for picnics on canoeing and automobile excursions — should be the joy of vegetarians .
2 It is a wide field , and a road crosses part of it ; there is no shelter here and the ground is still soft , especially in the winter .
3 There is no question here that PW acted completely above board , but it strikes me that the time has come to consider whether the profession 's rules and regulations on reporting to external authorities are not too restrictive .
4 ‘ But there is no question now that he is maturing .
5 ( Diodorus ' universal history is weighted towards Sicily in the classical period , conspicuously so in book xiv which covers 404387 ; , this is no doubt partly because he was Sicilian himself . )
6 There is no doubt also that there is a peculiar element of ‘ one-upmanship ’ among many gardeners in being able to boast of having the very latest rose in their gardens .
7 Crossings took the traditional form ( Figure 6.11 ) : there is no doubt here as to whom the road is for , or that walkers may only cross when permitted to do so by car drivers .
8 There is no doubt generally that children love jokes and riddles that are predictably structured and heavily formulaic , whatever the fashionable subject-matter .
9 There is no doubt either that despite the fact that wartime needs generally produced a slight upward trend in money wages , the usual earnings of rural labourers in the South and East , especially when periods of unemployment are taken into account , fell short of need .
10 There is no doubt too that parents have become more aware that immunisation can carry a risk of adverse reaction and this has been most publicised in relation to the whooping cough vaccine .
11 On the other , he claims on the letters page ( Letters report ) that my suggestion — that the way to revitalise socialism is by rank and file activity at the grassroots — is no way forward because 97 per cent of workplaces employ fewer than 20 people .
12 There is no problem here if the information is very specialised and only likely to be useful to a few outlets .
13 To keep the example simple , assume that there is no depreciation so that we do not need to worry about replacement investment .
14 There is no choice really as Kevin pulls himself out of the water .
15 Your engineer officer , McCafferty , is no slouch either and neither is mine .
16 There is no conflict here because the investigating activity of the AIB inspectors will proceed in the same way in either case ; but instead of the inspector in charge producing the report all the factual information is passed to the Attorney General who will present the case at the Public Inquiry .
17 It is no coincidence either that members of the Boo-Yaa Tribe appear in UK adverts for Carhartt : they 've been wearing the gear for ages .
18 Okay , there is no decision here but I think it is just beginning . ’
19 When A posts the offer to B he impliedly authorises B to conclude the contract by posting a letter of acceptance , but only on the assumption that the acceptance is properly addressed ; if it is not , there is no acceptance even though the Post Office cleverly delivers it on time .
20 It should be plain that cases such as this require urgent , expert medical attention for which Arnica is no substitute even though it may well help .
21 Deputies held Serbia responsible for the civil war in Bosnia-Hercegovina and proposed to send international observers to the provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina " where there is no war yet but minorities are in danger " .
22 Academics on the other hand will argue that beyond a certain point ( and there is no agreement exactly where it lies ) an increased student/staff ratio is bound to mean a dilution in the quality of the product .
23 question , issue three C two and three er we say that in relation to two as a matter of have categorize this as a question of law we say it probably categories a question of fact because if they 're right in there analysis of law and article eighty directive , all it means is , is that there is no market outside and that the restriction is insignificant if that being so one would answer the question , is not capable as a matter of pure law of infringing article eighty five , but in the light of the discussion yesterday afternoon of course when my learned friend comes to apply for this strike out , we may have difficulty in contesting that provision it 's not , not er , a , a major part of our case that we , we would have to re-consider it and , and I did ask your Lordship erm if your Lordship would minded to find otherwise not to block out at least the possibility of application for leave to amend and of course we 'd have to make , have to consider whether we could make a proper case out of it on what we do
24 The disqualification stands on the proposition that , where there is no market so that the user can not by taking his custom elsewhere , discipline the provider , it is wrong to adopt any form which creates a right and duty to use the monopoly so as to satisfy the interests of an exclusive group of owners , as against those of the users .
25 There is no certainty either as to where he wrote his main English works : the treatise known as Mixed Life , giving advice to the upmarket man of affairs who also wished to create opportunities to cultivate his inner spiritual life ( one manuscript describes it as " a luitel Boc was writen to a worldli lord to teche him hou he schulde haue him in his state in ordeynd loue to god and to his euencristene " ) , and the two books of The Scale of Perfection .
26 They are saying in fact that there is no truth outside or beyond the concrete historical events in which men are involved as agents [ and ] there is therefore no knowledge except in action itself , in the process of transforming the world through participating in history .
27 It is no accident therefore that many of the multilingual communities develop their own resources and language infrastructures .
28 There is no mystery here and any paradox is only apparent .
29 There is no suggestion here that any academic work is pristine pure in this regard .
30 There is no suggestion here that anyone in the Arab world other than a fanatical fringe seriously expects that his leadership could resolve the region 's difficulties .
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