Example sentences of "be no [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 You 're no average sort of
2 They 're no bloody relations of mine .
3 But there have been no credible claims of responsibility , and the use of Pentrite suggests to secret service investigators that it may not have been aimed at French national interests but at someone on the aircraft .
4 There has been no credible claim of responsibility so far for the blasts , many of which were caused by car bombs not previously used in India .
5 There 's been no immediate comment from the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital .
6 There has thus been no overall change in balances at the Bank of England , but banks ' holdings of call notes and bills have risen .
7 But there had been no overall review in recent times of the problem of crime and criminals by an independent and authoritative body .
8 Cos I do n't , I , I believe there 's been , there 've been no firm proposals for that site yet ?
9 Indeed , a similar interpretation was put forward by President de Klerk yesterday when he said that there had been no firm agreement on power-sharing and stressed the need for the resumption of multi-party talks .
10 They had had no indication that anything had gone wrong , but there had been no firm news from Stockholm since before the flight .
11 There have been no controlled trials of the Gerson therapy .
12 If there had been no political factor in the equation , it is unlikely that Profumo would have been ruined in the way he was and tortured for years by a newspaper interest which has survived until the present day .
13 This has made it difficult for Britain to compete on the world market , and this in turn has eventually led to a worse slump and level of unemployment than would otherwise have been the case had there been no political intervention in the working of the naturally self-regulating free economy of the market .
14 There has been no political pressure from the Foreign Office or elsewhere to prevent the exhibition .
15 Mrs Mitchell said there had been no other complaints of re-occurring trouble on Shakespeare Road .
16 There had been no other woman in his life for quite a time .
17 Commodores , members , I have a great announcement to make , there have been no other nominations for President of the Association .
18 There had been no other people on the premises where the two men were arrested .
19 The torpedo must have been dropped in the Harbour — there would have been no other reason for entering the Harbour .
20 There 've been no other attacks on the estate , but women are warned to be on their guard while walking alone .
21 The UK Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews agreed on Nov. 16 that progress had been made in the talks when round-table and committee stages gave way to bilateral contacts during the past four weeks , although there had been no bilateral meeting between the Irish government and the Democratic Unionist Party .
22 There have been no fancy gimmicks in producing referrals , and the staff are to be commended for their considerable efforts . ’
23 As a careful analysis of the data states , ‘ Quite simply there has been no Thatcherite transformation of attitudes or behaviour among the British public .
24 Although the quietness of his end was made memorable by Reith 's BBC announcement that ‘ the King 's life is moving peacefully towards its close ’ , there had been no long-term illness during which an early change of reign had been accepted and prepared for .
25 In Tanzania in the early 1980s , 90 per cent of agricultural production in the resettled villages was still geared to subsistence consumption and there had been no long-term increase in the productivity of the farmers involved .
26 There have been no extensive studies of xenobiotic metabolising enzyme expression in colonic adenomas .
27 There has been no serious conflict about the designation of land for particular uses .
28 So far there have been no serious incidents as a result of lights that have been out of action , but there is a possibility of accidents occurring . ’
29 There has been no serious study of the persistence of Indian beliefs about the origins of diseases or supernatural cures since a study in 1957 , but they are still current among the older generation at least .
30 There had been no serious outbreak in the island for over twenty years , so the majority were neither immune nor vaccinated ( there was great reluctance to be vaccinated ) .
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