Example sentences of "[noun] be [conj] [pers pn] [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know where Jeff is and I have no more business here now that your cousin 's disappeared as well ! ’ |
| 2 | A frequent comment of observers about a prisoner in for a serious offence like murder is that he shows no remorse . |
| 3 | His reply is that we have no idea of material substance because matter is an impossibility and could not exist ; whereas , though we can have no sensory idea of spiritual substance , minds are not an impossibility and could exist . |
| 4 | A limitation of this study is that we had no information on the type of hysterectomy — abdominal or vaginal . |
| 5 | The saving grace of Ockleton 's cloistered and analytical mind was that he had no use for deception . |
| 6 | The proposal that Hartle and I made can be paraphrased as : The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary . |
| 7 | One could say : " The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary . " |
| 8 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |
| 9 | Another major concession in the draft law was that it made no provision for stationing Chinese troops in Macao after 1999 . |
| 10 | The implications were that I had no physical characteristics of my own , but that in the same way as I ‘ had ’ my father 's nose , or my grandmother 's eyes , I somehow inhabited a body which was not mine but a replica of my mother 's , and over which , therefore , I had no control . |
| 11 | The snag is that it has no main bank behind it . |
| 12 | The truth is that he has no apparent difficulties responding to ‘ Val ’ or ‘ Kilmer ’ . |
| 13 | The experts said the most amazing part of Mr Major 's announcement was that he saw no reason why Diana could not be Queen . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't know who this person is as we have no family here now . |
| 15 | The superiority of Macbeth over Measure for Measure in this respect is that it needs no external moral force , such as the Duke , to ‘ Unfold the evil , which is here wrapp 'd up/In countenance . ’ |
| 16 | Another aspect of Evil is that it has no love for other things even those on its own side . |
| 17 | Although one limitation of Kendall 's explanation of European and Anglo-American distinctions is that it takes no account of the substantial differences which exist within his two comparison groups ( especially those between Britain and the USA ) nevertheless it is , as Shalev ( 1980a ) has shown , a useful approach in linking contextual structure to behaviour as a means of explaining the broad contrasts between the greater economism and internal unity of British and US unionism as compared with politicisation and ( outside Britain and Scandinavia ) religious/ideological divisions in Western Europe . |
| 18 | The weakness of this method is that it takes no account of what happens after the payback date is reached . |
| 19 | The weakness of this method is that it takes no account of what happens after the payback date is reached . |
| 20 | Its lack of significance is that it made no real difference to the political situation , except for putting the burgh of Edinburgh through a rapid change of councils and giving it the burden of housing the army of the Congregation . |
| 21 | The chief weakness of the House of Commons is in matters of taxation ; the way in which it has not been able to keep pace with administrative developments is that it has no method of collecting information ( other than the briefing from outside pressure groups already mentioned ) on the social and other side-effects of a tax or of examining possible future departures in taxation policy . |
| 22 | ( c ) Her own view as expressed to the ante-natal clinic was that she had no religion . |
| 23 | ‘ The worst thing is that we get no information about what is going on ’ , he says . |
| 24 | ’ The main thing is that we have no choice . |
| 25 | The fact of the matter is that you have no choice either way , and rightly so . |
| 26 | Heath was calling for a decisive mandate to put the unions in their place , but the most striking feature of the results is that they offered no party any decisive mandate whatever . |
| 27 | What is equally clear among business men is that they have no enthusiasm whatever for a Labour Government . |
| 28 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 29 | The strange thing was that he derived no real enjoyment from smoking . |
| 30 | The unexpected thing was that she made no attempt to hide her age , which was around sixty . |