Example sentences of "it was [adv] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT WAS surely no coincidence that the first record played after the Inspiral Carpets left the Palace stage was The Stranglers ‘ Golden Brown ’ . |
| 2 | It all might be serviceable enough for a Polish field-worker to wear during the potato harvest , but it was surely no serious proposal for festive dressing . |
| 3 | I tried , like , I did try , but it was just no good . |
| 4 | They did not — and it was admittedly no part of their business to do so — inform us for which purposes the existing social services are ‘ excessive ’ ; and it may be observed that other commentators , political and non-political , though they are frequently willing to indicate social services which in their opinion are ‘ inadequate ’ , are extremely taciturn when it comes to illustrating the more obvious half of the truism with specific examples . |
| 5 | It was probably no more than a daring exaggeration of the ‘ donkey-fringe ’ style which was the standard Hooligan haircut . |
| 6 | Its autonomy was , however , short-lived , and although it was probably no less active than it had been under Henry VII , Wolsey 's domineering conduct thrust it into subservience . |
| 7 | He made such thorough notes that it was then no great labour to produce a similar Biographical Register for Cambridge ( 1963 ) — in 1958 he estimated that such a work could be completed within eighteen months — and a more summary Survey of Dominicans in England , based on the Ordination Lists in Episcopal Registers ( 1268–1538 ) ( Rome , 1967 ) . |
| 8 | It was absolutely no good just giving them a sketch and expecting them to expand on it using their own initiative . |
| 9 | It was still no consolation . |
| 10 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 11 | It was perhaps no coincidence that French was adopted by English departments of state during the Anglo-French rapprochement of that time . |
| 12 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 13 | It was perhaps no wonder that he reacted against the spartan , puritanical environment of Potsdam . |
| 14 | It was certainly no thrupenny bit nor even a half a crown . |
| 15 | If Charles 's first memories of Diana on that fateful weekend are of ‘ a very jolly and amusing and attractive 16-year-old — full of fun ’ , then it was certainly no thanks to her elder sister . |
| 16 | It was certainly no part of the intentions of the founders of Protestantism to encourage discontent or disobedience . |
| 17 | It was certainly no more important to me and I could quite happily go for weeks without any . |
| 18 | No other section of the French community was boosting the will to war more substantially than the women ; and it was certainly no accident that , as a source of inspiration , La Madelon had almost replaced La Marseillaise . |
| 19 | It was really no surprise that Brian was taken out of the room that afternoon . |
| 20 | It was really no concern of hers whether it was business or personal . |
| 21 | The war was also a business in which it was apparently no easier than in peace to obtain just treatment for seaman , whatever hardships they might be suffering . |
| 22 | Everyone laughed again , but it was obviously no joking matter because Bunny flew into a rage , dancing up and down , sending the dust spiralling like fireflies above the footlights as he thundered , ‘ Quiet , please . ’ |
| 23 | It was therefore no surprise when the Macmillan government allocated the third TV channel to the BBC in 1963 , with a 1964 opening date . |
| 24 | The government made no effort to redeem this promise but Unionists believed that they were in a temporary phase pending the reconstruction of the upper house , and that it was therefore no business of the government to bring in other constitutional Bills before they had settled the constitution itself . |