Example sentences of "and it be no good " in BNC.

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1 But all that changed long ago and it 's no good yearning for what 's disappeared .
2 There is n't another ferry off Straker 's Cay till Saturday night and it 's no good expecting me to get any preparatory work done on Wavebreaker till Monday at the earliest , and then it 'll be two or three days before — ‘
3 Jones , soccer 's anti-hero , admits he is not one of the most loved men around but adds : ‘ These sort things happen and it 's no good saying they do n't . ’
4 Erm but again you have got to decide what it is you want out of your retirement because you 're the boss and it 's no good moaning when you 're into your retirement that it does n't suit you because you 've planned it , you 've made the decisions and therefore it 's up to you to alter whatever you do n't like .
5 And it 's no good just looking at little bits of it .
6 Thus in the case of ( 38 ) it might be " terrible things always happen in war , that 's its nature and it 's no good lamenting that particular disaster " ; in the case of ( 39 ) it might be " calm down , there 's no point in worrying about whether he 's going to come because there 's nothing we can do about it " ; and in the case of ( 40 ) it might be " it 's no concern of ours ' .
7 We have heard many times why that has not been possible and it 's no good crying over spilt milk , as they say in these parts .
8 And it 's no good for her to go on and think she 's gon na get a little girl is it ?
9 sort of Eastern religion type , meditation and thing and it 's no good at all !
10 And it 's no good actually , it 's not good pulling it like that and pulling it away because it 'll still be there .
11 And it 's no good moaning , so has to go and do something about it ,
12 If we make further savings in the course of the next financial year the benefit will be felt by the citizens of Cambridge and it 's no good promising them things which we ca n't deliver .
13 It was it was very , it was very sixteen year olds find this hard when they 're doing the , the high level stuff but it 's no good giving you the easy stuff cos you 're both very bright , both very clever and it 's no good saying , well what , does anyone know what one add two is is it ?
14 And it 's no good saying , ‘ It is for us to determine the good life .
15 Here we are on the hills , and it 's no better .
16 You are a slave , you are weak and it is no good for someone to say to you , ‘ Just follow my example ’ , because at moments like that the intrinsic goodness of another person becomes an impossible dream .
17 In spite of the revival of interest in airships now they can be filled with cheap helium , they are still unattractive in most circles and it is no good quoting the figures for people killed in airship crashes against those killed every day on the roads and similar statistics , or the successful career of the R100 , although filled with hydrogen .
18 And it is no good buying your plane , if , after all the other costs , you can not afford enough MOGAS or 100LL to actually fly it .
19 And it is no good trying to combat that by making the microphone ( " ear " ) more sensitive , since this would only make it more vulnerable to being damaged by the , albeit now slightly quieter , outgoing sounds !
20 But it was no good talking to her , she was too ill , and it was no good talking to Leo , he would never go against her decision .
21 There was something else I had to say , and it was no good getting wobbly-voiced about it either .
22 But the revolution had now spread to campuses , and it was no good booksellers putting up the barricades .
23 and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems
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