Example sentences of "[is] no [adj] thing [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may , following Hirsch , accept that there is no such thing as a poetic or aesthetic essence ; but we can say that such texts are rewarding when approached in aesthetic terms , or , in Lewis 's words , are read in literary ways . |
| 2 | For the five contracts dealt with in this article , there is no such thing as a ‘ standard ’ agreement . |
| 3 | As with recording advances , there is no such thing as a typical figure , but for a non-performing writer , enough money to live on should be sought . |
| 4 | Above all , remember that there is no such thing as a safe bet . |
| 5 | If any among the new reality seekers had a slightly tougher memory , they would recall that there is no such thing as a happy family . |
| 6 | The problem for the US troops , as in the bombing attacks aimed at Colonel Gadafy 's Libyan regime , is that there is no such thing as a surgical military strike against targets surrounded by civilians , many of them in this case US citizens . |
| 7 | Of course there is no such thing as a forgery-proof identity card . |
| 8 | In examining some of the questions posed , we have to accept that within the UK , and for that matter in most of the rest of the world , there is no such thing as a natural environment . |
| 9 | To me there is no such thing as a holy relic or place . |
| 10 | ‘ There is no such thing as a bloodless insurrection . ’ |
| 11 | Lashley finally concluded that there is no such thing as a localised engram . |
| 12 | ‘ Nowadays , there is no such thing as a bad job . |
| 13 | There is no such thing as a bargain either . |
| 14 | And manager Graham confessed : ‘ In football , there is no such thing as a job for life . |
| 15 | That may be a ‘ price worth paying ’ to relieve recession , but if economics tells us anything it is that there is no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 16 | There is no such thing as a worthless book , though there are some far worse than worthless ; no book which is not worth preserving , if its existence may be tolerated ; as there are some men whom it may be proper to hang , but none who should be suffered to starve . |
| 17 | In a way , mentally , there is no such thing as a ‘ natural ’ driver . |
| 18 | Less comforting , though , is the realization that this concept implies that there is no such thing as a fixed reality — which is exactly what we observe on the subatomic scale . |
| 19 | But in spite of what is often claimed , there is no such thing as a dead marriage . |
| 20 | Another designer , this time a man , told me there is no such thing as a really new design , only a bit taken from here and something else added from there . |
| 21 | They argue that if the Greeks can demonstrate with exhibitions such as this that there is no such thing as a Macedonian culture in the former Yugoslavia , Serbian claims to cultural domination of the region are strengthened and Macedonia is more likely to suffer the kind of atrocities that Croatia and Bosnia have endured . |
| 22 | In isolation , there is no such thing as a price that is ‘ too high ’ . |
| 23 | If history is a process , Althusser remarks , ‘ there is no such thing as a process except in relations [ sous des rapports ] ’ . |
| 24 | Looked at this way , there is no such thing as a special kind of behaviour called ‘ political ’ ; there is only a political dimension to behaviour … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ In fact ’ , Julia utters , ‘ there is no such thing as a green product ’ . |
| 26 | There is festering resentment in dark green quarters over what is seen as Julia 's reluctance to state baldly that there is no such thing as a green product , or that continued consumption at the present rate can only lead to us all dying in some particularly horrible way . |
| 27 | Whereas Ollie happens to have spotted that nowadays there is no such thing as a short-cut in London : all the back roads are dogged up by master cartologists such as Stu , petrol-pinching aficionados of kink and gully who spin their Oldsmobile Mantras into canny U-turns like instructors on the skid-rink . |
| 28 | Truly , there is no such thing as a ‘ free lunch ’ , every decision has its own inherent problems . |
| 29 | The second approach is based on the notion that there is no such thing as a grammatical/ungrammatical distinction , but instead a gradient of probability whereby certain combinations are more grammatically acceptable than others [ Sampson , 1987 ] . |
| 30 | The late 1980s brought too fast a rate of expansion , causing inflation to rise again — and showing that there is no such thing as a final victory against inflation . |