Example sentences of "be no [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been added to confirm his father 's hold on power : if the Congress would passively accept such a nomination then there could be no threat to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's authority from within , or so it must have seemed . |
| 2 | ‘ The Government should be under no illusion about our preparedness to see this dispute through , ’ he said , adding there would be no threat to emergency services . |
| 3 | There would be no resort to devaluation . |
| 4 | The first area , which will be no surprise to readers of The Bookseller , is the mind-boggling rate of change that is affecting all businesses at the present time . |
| 5 | They had to achieve a total military victory in order also to impose the total political victory which would at once provide ex post legitimation for the rising and enable them to ensure that there would be no return to pre-July 1936 conditions . |
| 6 | ‘ Actually I have a new job as a hostess at le Chat Noir , so there will be no disturbance to Monsieur Nadirpur . ’ |
| 7 | Despite this forthright tone , later parts of the document point out that ‘ the scheme will be structured in a way that patients will always get the drugs they need ’ and that ‘ it will ensure that budgets reflect the costs of patients needing a greater volume of drugs or more expensive drugs … ’ ‘ so that there will be no disincentive to practices to accept such patients or to begin to prescribe expensive medicine to such patients , if there is a clinical need to do so ’ . |
| 8 | Under a Labour Government , there would be no relief to widows , single mothers or young people starting out in life who live on their own . |
| 9 | Mr Hurd said the position had now changed and that even if the amendment was carried , it ‘ would be no impediment to ratification ’ . |
| 10 | In other words , there would be no impediment to ratification … |
| 11 | Children who find it hard to write with paper and pencil can compose in alternative ways : difficulty in writing need be no barrier to poetry . |
| 12 | Unlike the old rating system there would be no attempt to value each property in the country . |
| 13 | Touch wood , he had been lucky and come through it all unscathed , but it would be no consolation to Byford to tell him that he had been un lucky , that it was the RIC and their Black and Tan recruits rather than British army patrols that were the main IRA targets . |
| 14 | ( Whitehouse and Stuart-Buttle , Revenue Law , 10th edn , Butterworths , para 37.74 , supports this view. ) ( b ) Termination of the settlement When the wife 's interest in possession ceases ( eg when the youngest child becomes 18 years of age ) there should be no charge to inheritance tax on that part of the settled property that reverts back to the husband ( Inheritance Tax Act 1984 , s53(3) ) nor on that part which the wife receives ( s53(2) ) . |
| 15 | There would be no recommendation to mercy . |
| 16 | In deference to the opposition within the party , the abandonment of the referendum was kept secret until Law had been able to consult with Borden , who of course insisted that tariffs without food taxes would be no value to Canada , but who also refused to make a public intervention in British politics . |
| 17 | There should be no science to book disposal . |
| 18 | There may be no alternative to leave of absence , even though the nurse can ill afford the loss of income . |
| 19 | There may be no alternative to leave-of-absence or annual leave but the nurse should be given the opportunity to resolve her difficulty by seeking the help of colleagues who may be prepared to substitute for her at short notice . |
| 20 | Then there will be no alternative to mud in either rural or urban areas . |