Example sentences of "is no [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Even this 1.8GL model , with the more powerful 90 bhp engine , is no ball of fire , and the standard 1.4-litre 60 bhp model looks distinctly sluggish compared with most rivals .
2 However , turning turning to Selby 's demand led approach which I would call it , and I think that is erm how they themselves in fact describe it , they have set a level of two hundred and two hundred to two hundred a fifty hectares based on demand , and as I understand it there is no assessment of job need or job demand to back that requirement .
3 In the extreme case , there is no mobility of labour at all ( as in Jones , 1971b ) , and the implications of such immobility for the incidence of the corporation tax have been examined in Section 6–4 , where we saw that implies that the return to capital definitely falls ( relative to p y ) as a result of the tax .
4 When there is no mobility of labour across jurisdictions , it is possible that two identical individuals residing in two different jurisdictions may obtain different net fiscal benefits .
5 This is often linked with a supposed denunciatory effect — the idea that the mandatory life sentence denounces murder as emphatically as possible — and with a supposed general deterrent effect , in declaring that there is no mitigation of sentence available for this crime .
6 In a logical net , at the simpler level of search , there is no notion of approximation to a correct answer from given inputs .
7 Recognise that there is no blame in addiction .
8 Bereavement counselling — where there is no hope of conception or repeated attempts at treatment have not resulted in conception .
9 PEOPLE should carry ‘ switch-me-off ’ cards to help doctors decide whether to keep them alive if there is no hope of recovery , the British Medical Association said yesterday .
10 It should be stated publicly that where two independent doctors agree there is no hope of recovery , patients should be allowed to die with dignity , ’ she said .
11 There is no hope for man apart from the Cross . ’
12 ‘ We will not develop the business where there is no emphasis on quality , and we intend to continue in that framework .
13 First , the absence of specialist alcohol training on qualification courses means there is no emphasis on screening , so little occurs in later practice .
14 The feet are all on the base-line of the picture , and there is no diminution in size with distance , so that the surface-plane is still emphasised ; but the notion of a receding space in which ranked armies meet is inescapable .
15 There is no merit in R&D designing something that manufacturing has not the resources to produce efficiently .
16 There is no retreat from suffering .
17 As cementation proceeds in clean sandstones or grainstones , or the matrix in clayey-sandstones and packstones becomes lithified , pressure is transmitted through the whole rock and there is no excess of stress at the grain to grain contacts .
18 Rather than the benefit of trade debts being sold to Newco , a mechanism can be inserted in the business sale agreement whereby the vendor retains ownership of these and Newco collects them in as undisclosed agent for the vendor , so that there is no conveyance on sale of the debts for stamp duty purposes .
19 There is no wall of separation between means and end …
20 On a macroscopic level , the problem is that there is no allowance for diversity of musical practice or song-type .
21 Probably because of this , there are no professional guidelines and there is no requirement for audit .
22 Used in such a way , there is no requirement for electricity , telephones , mains water or drainage .
23 There is no requirement for knowledge as regards a product and , therefore , in the absence of a defence , liability for infringement is strict .
24 Under the Fire Precautions Act 1971 , there is no requirement for fire authorities to re-inspect a certified building .
25 There is no requirement of dishonesty or intent permanently to deprive .
26 It is technically perfectly lawful for a Minister of the Crown to be empowered to make statutory instruments in such a way that they are never subjected to parliamentary scrutiny — indeed , there is no requirement of promulgation or publication for an instrument to become legally binding and an instrument made by the Minister and cached in his bottom drawer could be as binding as the Theft Act ( although in this situation ignorance might , rarely in our law , offer a defence by reason of s.3(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act
27 The Regulations do not deal with the form of this record and although it would seem desirable for the sole member to sign it , in case of dispute , there is no requirement of signature in the Regulations .
28 These should be treated with caution as there is no guarantee of performance , said NTDA director Richard Edy .
29 So , again there is no guarantee of reliability or security .
30 Universality is no guarantee of innateness .
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