Example sentences of "was no [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patients who recovered in these boxes and enclosures came and went like the inmates of any other busy casualty ward , but , of course , there were big differences : most importantly , there was no waiting list , and no one had to pay ! |
| 2 | There was no waiting list er |
| 3 | There was no get-out clause for the gallant crustaceans who , once they had raced for glory were snapped up , popped into the cooking pot and served as ‘ dish of the day ’ by the ship 's chefs . |
| 4 | If there was no map information available then the order and orientation of the contigs was random , but the order of probes within each contig was stable . |
| 5 | Sniffing around the back door it occurred to me that the last time I 'd missed something : there was no cat door . |
| 6 | Thus the lexicon contained explicit paths which mapped from the end of would into the beginning of you via , or from to the beginning of the lexicon if there was no boundary effect . |
| 7 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 8 | She leaned against the cabin-top , thinking that it was no wonder Lucenzo had been ready to burst a blood vessel when she 'd tried the mask on ! |
| 9 | There was no yardage chart in those days , but I worked out very quickly that Arnold was two clubs stronger than me , so I just put myself in the same situation and added on two clubs . |
| 10 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 11 | However , there was no committee report until February 1988 and even then information was sketchy , providing merely a summary of activity which did not reveal its scale . |
| 12 | There was no hall porter to pick it up . |
| 13 | A neighbour had made sure he was awake ; there was no alarm clock at home . |
| 14 | There was no income restriction on any households in receipt of programme monies . |
| 15 | There was no Honey Bee or Gas Guzzler to replicate the sea route for me , so buses and hitches and foot slog gave me more time on Mull than was strictly accurate . |
| 16 | I do n't think they could say anything , as I say there was no hosepipe ban then anyway so |
| 17 | There was no pipe line there , only a crane and grab . |
| 18 | Even in the Petitioners case , where less emphasis is placed upon status , the Court does not resort to treaty arguments and indeed could not do so , for there was no treaty right of petition . |
| 19 | Erm we asked the question about the aircraft 's reduced operational capabilities as far as Britain is concerned , we were told that there was no reduction , erm there was no percentage figure that could be produced but w now what about the other countries , I mean , which countries are asking for what to be omitted and by how much is the percentage , in percentage terms er is the performance of the aircraft reduced in those cases and further on from that , picking up something that that Wing Com er Group Captain Granville White has just mentioned which i is the question of sales . |
| 20 | Chinese hamster lung fibroblasts transfected with M1 muscarinic receptors responded to carbachol with an increase in inositol phosphate release and fos and myc induction , but there was no DNA synthesis . |
| 21 | There was no fairy godmother to rescue him . |
| 22 | His students thought he 'd finally flipped and started telling fairy stories , but this was no fairy story , this was a real Gothic Horror . |
| 23 | There was no fairy tale finish for Oxford United in the big cup game at the Manor last night with Aston Villa winning 2-1 … but better news of Swindon they put six goals past Torquay … |
| 24 | British Rail said the train was halted because there was no relief guard . |
| 25 | We came to think that the two features were of the same date , as there was no construction trench cut into the rampart front for the insertion of the wall . |
| 26 | Peristalsis was considered ‘ failed ’ either if there was no contraction wave at all , or if it failed to traverse the entire length of the oesophagus , or if a simultaneous contraction occurred . |
| 27 | She smiled at Hari as she moved towards the stairs , there was no order book but from now on there would be one and , if today was anything to go by , it would always be full . |
| 28 | There was no home leave from overseas and , as far as I knew , few individuals or units of the Eighth Army had returned to Britain , for most had been sent to Sicily and thence to the toe and heel of Italy , or to Salerno , and by this time were fighting hard up the Italian peninsula on one or other side of the Appennines . |
| 29 | Erm there was the London Fire Brigade which had a band , erm and the Yorkshire Fire Brigade which had a band , but there was no brass band as such in this part of the world . |
| 30 | However , there was no computer system to manage the exercise — when the nav wanted a position line or fix he pre-warned the instructor , who sat the other side of the ‘ cockpit ’ facia , and at the appropriate time a piece of paper was pushed through the wall with the details scrawled upon it ! |