Example sentences of "be that no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The facts are that no such dossier was produced by Murrin in 1989 . |
| 2 | When passing the 1976 act , it might have been that no particular attention had been paid to a situation in which injuries were sustained before birth , but parliament had clearly stated that a person had to sustain injuries and die from them before relatives could claim damages . |
| 3 | No logical contradiction is involved in the assertion , ‘ The brick fell upwards when released ’ , although it may be that no such statement is ever supported by observation . |
| 4 | I have in fact no explanation to offer as to how he came to die , and it may be that no trustworthy explanation will ever be achieved . |
| 5 | The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous . |
| 6 | The proper conclusion appears to be that no single theory can underlie all potential agency situations , and that these must be examined on a case by case basis . |
| 7 | Again the assumption is that no genuine change will result if the confidence of practitioners is totally undermined . |
| 8 | ‘ My conclusion , ’ Mr Davison told his audience at the recent Irish Institute conference in Galway , ‘ is that no rational person would contemplate a merger between the Big Six . ’ |
| 9 | One of the major drawbacks is that no good bowel contrast agent is commercially available and it is therefore frequently difficult to distinguish tumour from loops of bowel . |
| 10 | The great advantage is that no external stimuli are applied to the subjects of the observation — all their actions and the situations they are in are absolutely normal . |
| 11 | One consequence of this is that no systematic research programme has resulted from this approach . |
| 12 | The trouble is that no other country is prepared to pay even as much ( ie , little ) as the Russians for surplus EC butter ; much of it would go rancid in the Community 's cold stores . |
| 13 | First , the sense in which the strategy is evolutionarily stable is that no other strategy ( among those considered in the model ) can do better than it . |
| 14 | The pleasure of long rivers is that no two trips along them are ever even similar . |
| 15 | The key to Homoeopathy is that no two people suffer from the same disease . |
| 16 | What emerges from any comparative analysis of the tasks of curriculum planning and responses to them is that no one centre or unit can adequately accomplish them all . |
| 17 | A quite possible result though is that no one supplier is completely satisfactory on all counts across the whole range of products . |
| 18 | The general feeling is that no one company fits the bill , but the combined market capitalisation of Microsoft Corp and Intel Corp now exceeds that of IBM by 50% , and one well-supported suggestion is a triumvirate of Microsoft , Intel and Apple Computer Inc — in other words IBM 's former strategic partner . |
| 19 | The first , rather obviously , is that no one approach is without its detractors . |
| 20 | One is that no actual endangerment is required : the explosion need only have been inherently likely to endanger life , and the offence is committed whether or not anyone 's life was put in danger . |
| 21 | As I considered the contents of the squadron report , it seemed to me that the probability was that the bodies were those of aircrew from supply aircraft , for there was some suggestion in the report that a Liberator and a Halifax had been lost over the Morvan when ferrying supplies ; but the point is that no proper statement was ever made in regimental records . |
| 22 | This is not the same thing as saying that any tone can be used in any context ; the point is that no particular tone has a unique ‘ privilege of occurrence ’ in a particular context . |
| 23 | One factor that unites all of these theories is that no computational system exists which is able to cope with unrestricted English . |
| 24 | The results are quite good , but a flaw is that no middle-aged subjects were measured ( Figures – ) . |
| 25 | A major difficulty of this approach is that no foolproof method of distinguishing between jurisdictional facts and facts within jurisdiction has been developed . |
| 26 | For the truth is that no single agent affects our planet as much as we do . |
| 27 | The central problem with the set-up , however , is that no single body is charged with calculating the opportunity costs of environmental bossiness . |
| 28 | I will leave to others how far this solves the difficulty ; my point is that no comparable difficulty arises in evolutionary game theory . |
| 29 | What she meant , she told herself , was that no living creature would choose to be a pet , and nothing would opt for imprisonment , and when she went home she 'd feel trapped and , if she did n't know it was happening , she 'd rather be shot — as long as she did n't see the bullet coming . |
| 30 | The outcome , perhaps inevitably , was that no new voting system at all was introduced , except for the university constituencies ( for it was deemed that graduates would be able to follow the mysteries of PR even if the rest of the electors could not ) . |