Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] be no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It often emerges from the answer to such a question that there really is no argument . |
| 2 | It is as if an economic historian , collating woeful Financial Times editorials every few years , were to conclude that there really were no business-cycles , let alone longer-term Kondratieff waves of growth and decline . |
| 3 | However , Bonanza Boy won so easily that there really was no second . |
| 4 | The pattern of symptoms in this patient refutes the theory that the reason why x , y and z co-occur is that they all reflect damage to a single system ( since if that theory were true you could never get x without y ) ; indeed , this patient shows that there actually is no syndrome ( in the theoretical sense ) defined by the joint occurrence of all three symptoms . |
| 5 | There is , however , a more fundamental reason why an attempt to perceive a structure within a given set of phenomena may fail ; it may be that there actually is no structure there to be perceived in the first place . |
| 6 | Administered prices may accomplish a variety of ends , but not the balancing of supply with demand ( for social reasons , meat is cheap so there usually is no meat ) ; nor will they reflect real alternatives and scarcities ( hence the metal content of Soviet machinery is 25 per cent greater than in their American equivalents , and energy consumption per unit of GNP is almost twice that in Western Europe ) . |
| 7 | If there really is no choice then there is no decision to be made , so it is only a waste of time to pretend that there is . |
| 8 | Even the thought of this plan seemed dreadful to Mildred , who could see how such a course of action was fraught with danger , but there really was no alternative if she was to help the frog-magician . |
| 9 | But it really is no indication as to whether that 's likely to be the case in the future is n't it ? |
| 10 | Since there really is no comparison , let's make one . |