Example sentences of "[pron] is no [noun sg] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are impetuous by nature and get frustrated if there is no battle to be won , particularly in midfield , ’ he said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A range of options for recording achievement may be adopted whenever there is no purpose to be served by deriving a single total score from the items on the test , or where it is not necessary to rank the examinees in order of merit . |
| 4 | This method of commentary addition works quite satisfactorily provided that there is no music to be mixed in as well . |
| 5 | There is no advantage to be gained by Opposition Members seeking to defend the indefensible . |
| 6 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is no case to be made for taxpayers ' money being used to prop up Boris Yeltsin , who will turn out to be the David Owen of Russia ? |
| 7 | If the mood is one of resigned acceptance , that the situation represents one 's life difficulties , that there is no help to be obtained in dealing with the matter , should we consider that such a person has a problem ? |
| 8 | There is no prestige to be gained from simply repeating someone else 's experiment ; you are very unlikely to get a grant to do it , and the main scientific journals are not normally interested in publishing ‘ replications ’ of experiments unless they are on a particularly controversial topic . |
| 9 | It is one of those cases in which there is no neutrality to be had , because neutrality needs as much justification as any other position . |
| 10 | There are some who think that there is no fun to be found in local government finance , but they can be proved wrong by this debate . |
| 11 | But , despite throwing the machine round some corners behind the Old Kent Road , there is no chirp to be heard . |
| 12 | There is no profit to be made there , Guillamon , not any more . |
| 13 | Although many of her friends have lost their jobs too , which , she says , means ‘ there is no stigma to being made redundant ’ , they all seem to have been lucky . |
| 14 | There is no way to be persuasive through someone else . |
| 15 | A person who has a migraine or who has been spinning round and round , may feel as if he is reeling over , although there is no movement to be seen by people watching him . |
| 16 | Such a tradition of behaviour ‘ is neither fixed nor finished ; it has no changeless centre to which understanding can anchor itself ; there is no sovereign purpose to be perceived or invariable direction to be detected ; there is no model to be copied , idea to be realised , or rule to be followed ’ . |
| 17 | Do n't be deceived by the bright pink cover : there is no joy to be had . |
| 18 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |
| 19 | The dry-stone walls have been repaired in the traditional way ; fences in the fields to keep the animals back are wooden post-and-rail , there is no barbed-wire to be seen ; and where the Prince has planted new trees in the parkland , they are all protected from the livestock by solid wooden guards , not the plastic sort most farmers use . |
| 20 | But there is no room to be complacent , says director |
| 21 | There is no need to be intimidated by the formality of a staid institution 's catalogue , or to neglect popular magazines ; as for writing in various academic disciplines , there ought to be no barrier to learning about an interesting topic . |
| 22 | And remember there is no need to be afraid of Hamlet . |
| 23 | ‘ There is no need to be ashamed , ’ he said , again out loud . |
| 24 | ‘ There is no need to be ashamed , ’ he said to himself , getting up off the bed and making his way to the door to see what his native Forest looked like in daylight and to see what sort of world it was where a man could be free and alone and full of shame . |
| 25 | There is no need to be too precise about temperature , but blood heat is about right . |
| 26 | Plan periods when there is no need to be with anyone and when there is an opportunity to relax and to recharge energy . |
| 27 | Most people never have any trouble so there is no need to be paranoid , but do be aware of the facts : the little word ‘ taxi ’ or ‘ minicab ’ written on a car is not necessarily an official certificate of good character . |
| 28 | So , as you can see , there is no need to be discouraged from growing plants for pressing even if you do only have a window box . |
| 29 | There is no need to be too rigid in your choice of material for each season , unless you feel it is important , but nevertheless you should still maintain the overall feeling of each season , although in some cases I chose a few out-of-season flowers to give a better colour or shape . |
| 30 | ‘ There is no need to be afraid anyway , ’ he continued smoothly , ‘ your boys are here to protect you . ’ |