Example sentences of "be that no [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed , yet in his mind 's eye it recreated itself , the child for ever stilled , its face a waxen mask , the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep , the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand , the parents in each other 's arms . |
| 2 | One view of this case is that no damage to the plaintiff was foreseeable because of the angle at which the cover fell into the molten liquid . |
| 3 | What must be true is that no system of predicting good and bad risks — computer credit scoring , personal interview , previous payment history , or any combination of these — can be infallible . |
| 4 | The awkward truth is that no power on earth could ease the torment of some Vietnam veterans . |
| 5 | The feeling is that no amount of legislative safeguards can entirely eliminate the risk of a chemical spill , wreaking havoc in this watery landscape where a network of mountain streams fed by high rainfall could quickly wash the damage into the drinking water , or down to the mussel farm and salmon fishery at the mouth of Killary harbour . |
| 6 | The problem is that no amount of self-knowledge can entirely express our full humanity , precisely because we are incomplete beings . |
| 7 | My contention is that no account of the emergence of black sportsmen in contemporary Britain can ignore the social and historical circumstances in which that emergence occurred . |
| 8 | We might agree that coercion ‘ in any evil sense ’ is not involved in the practice of satyāgraha , and it could be argued that what the phrase implies is that no abandonment of the principle of non-violence is involved . |
| 9 | The problem in both cases is that no process of reworking , assimilation or re-presentation has taken place : there is little added by you . |
| 10 | What must be clear is that no reservation under Article 23 , however worded , can operate to extend the scope of the Convention beyond that established in Article 1 . |