Example sentences of "no [noun sg] that this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Turnpenny said : ‘ He gave no indication that this threat would be any different . ’
2 That was the sort of thing we had to contend with at Ullapool ; no one really wanted us around , it was no wonder that this jewel of the west was most unpopular with our crews .
3 It is no accident that this paper has in its title ‘ supportive education ’ and not ‘ the supportive education department ’ .
4 There is no evidence that this species has ever nested in Sussex .
5 It is possible that the selectors only had the E-K telephone directory to hand , and thus were limited in their options , but there is no evidence that this policy is a winning one .
6 According to the Council for the Protection of Rural England , some 120,000 miles of hedgerow have been lost since 1947 and this accelerated during the 1980s and there is no evidence that this rate of loss has slowed down ( in spite of the continued popularity of fox hunting ) .
7 There is no guarantee that this money will be available next year so training providers are now scrabbling around trying to work out ways of providing training up to the required standard in six months instead of the full year
8 There is no guarantee that this money will be available next year so training providers are now scrabbling around trying to work out ways of providing training up to the required standard in six months instead of the full year .
9 ‘ Poor Rosie — did you have no warning that this appendicitis was coming on ? ’ he asked .
10 In a country where innovation is prized in welfare as much as in technology , there is no reason that this right will not increasingly extend to other groups — Specialised Housing 's initiative has already caused the families of people with a severely mentally ill child to start thinking whether such an option might be open to them — but the fact remains that in the USA parents have even fewer options than in this country .
11 There was no suggestion that this order would be impossible for the husband to comply with or would cripple his business .
12 Yet there has been no suggestion that this agency should say why licences are refused ( as in Norway ) or hold public inquiries when unsafe drugs are withdrawn ( as in the United States ) .
13 Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made .
14 ‘ There 's no proof that this person is an American citizen ? ’
15 Although the speed of the computer does not allow animation comparable to that which can be produced on film , there is no doubt that this facility , which has only just begun to be explored , can give real power to the teacher .
16 Mr Wriglesworth added : ‘ I have no doubt that this election will come to be seen as the key to the recovery from the worst recession in the housing market since the Second World War .
17 There is no doubt that this bone yields the most reliable sexing information of all , and it is probable that between 90 per cent and 95 per cent accuracy in determination can be achieved ( Krogman , 1946 ; Washburn , 1948 ; Genoves , 1959 ) .
18 There is no doubt that this system of lifts is perfectly practicable .
19 A learned paper from Paris has confirmed this opinion by declaring , after an exhaustive description of my son 's genius , that there was no doubt that this child would at the age of twelve write an opera for one or the other of the Italian theatres ; but everybody thought that a German should reserve such glory for his own country alone .
20 Alan Calladine , the Midland Railway Trust 's Development officer , commented : ‘ There is no doubt that this machine is one of the more important items in our collection , as it represents the last stages of steam locomotive production from the Derby Locomotive Works .
21 There can be no doubt that this course has heightened the management skills of some of those working in the voluntary sector , but an extra benefit is that it had widened the links between I B M and you , and widened the understanding between both of us .
22 Nevertheless , there is no doubt that this relationship flourished .
23 There is no doubt that this map was a landmark in the improvement of the outline of Scotland , which was to last for twenty years .
24 There is no doubt that this kind of focus is likely to become more common and likely to make major changes in the contributory disciplines themselves .
25 There is no doubt that this work has been enormously fruitful in pointing out the detailed strategies and rhetorical manoeuvres involved in the expression of racism .
26 whatever disagreement there may be about size , there can be no doubt that this sector will not disappear easily and there is every evidence to show that with the economic crises of the 1980s , it has been increasing .
27 There can be no doubt that this claim has impressed many as an important reason why his views should not only be taken seriously but accepted as true .
28 There can be no doubt that this sort of help is most valuable for teachers , and where it can not be provided from a curriculum development project itself might in less ambitious form be offered from a teachers ' centre or from a schools library service , although in the latter case the advice on sub-themes and topics would necessarily be tentative rather than prescriptive .
29 Although there is no doubt that this view is supported in London — which tends to see the West in terms of an Anglo-Saxon axis and the ‘ special relationship ’ between Britain and the United States — France has reservations and it is clearly not shared by southern European nations .
30 There is no doubt that this encouragement to grow potatoes had a disastrous sequel some fifty years later .
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