Example sentences of "and [det] is no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that is no achievement at all . |
| 2 | From the outside world , only Edward III , the Black Prince , and Richard II entered his final thoughts , and that is no surprise . |
| 3 | And that is no answer , Miss Grimsilk , thought the Direktor . |
| 4 | The great all seem to have had this cross to bear , and that is no comfort — I think more is to be found in the wicked suspicion that perhaps it 's a thing those Snows have n't experienced . |
| 5 | ‘ I discovered , ’ he said , ‘ that in Germany other Polish players were not always paid what their contracts stated and that is no good . |
| 6 | We are waiting until they crash land and that is no good . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Foley , formerly assistant to George Graham at Arsenal , said : ‘ It was my 55th birthday yesterday and this is no way to celebrate . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's irrelevant and this is no court of law . |
| 9 | Straight-faced now , Peggy said , ‘ Sherry is for occasions and this is no occasion , not even special company . ’ |
| 10 | A sale of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sculpture usually caters for all tastes and pockets and this is no exception . |
| 11 | Starting with cost reduction any cost reduction programme always involves a lot of redundancy and , and this is no exception and from the slide you 'll see that we 've er we 've had a staff reduction er , from the the plan for this year of one thousand and thirty three er and that 's the , that will save us in a full year something like fifteen point nine , sixteen million pounds . |
| 12 | Theoretically , they were so determined and this is no doubt the explanation of the plethora of patently spurious genealogies that litter the contemporary and later literature . |
| 13 | The dreadful results are well-known and this is no place to trace the course of the events to their bitter culmination on a Midland plain . |
| 14 | Yours — and this is no euphemism , BILL FRANCIS |