Example sentences of "[be] no [noun] of [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be no way of doing it gradually or on the cheap . |
| 2 | There would be no chance of refilling it ; and one tank for four months through some of the world 's most spectacular coral seas would call for superhuman restraint . |
| 3 | This argument tacitly assumes that once the collapse begins there is no hope of stopping it at a later stage . |
| 4 | Wanting power is no guarantee of getting it . |
| 5 | If a trailer begins to ‘ snake ’ , the swinging often develops so quickly that within seconds there is no way of stopping it and avoiding going right off the road . |
| 6 | The blood is hot and corrosive , and as it splatters the adventurers ( there is no way of evading it ) it burns the skin , irrespective of armour , magical protections and the like , causing burning and bleeding wounds . |
| 7 | For this reason , the Presentation attainment target stops at level 7 ( the level that should be achieved by the average 16 year old ) because there is no way of extending it to level 10 , other than by specifying lists of increasingly irregular and unusual words — which would be absurd . |
| 8 | It might appear from section 8(2) that , if no price is agreed and there is no method of ascertaining it , a reasonable price is automatically payable . |
| 9 | ‘ But there 's no question of selling it , ’ said Edward . |
| 10 | But you 've only got , if you w if you put chips in a basket in a chip pan if it , the fat boils up you can at least lift the chips out straight away but if you 're putting them straight into the pan there 's no hope of stopping it coming over . |
| 11 | If the chest is forced open , the same trap will be triggered , save that there 's no chance of defusing it with the extra lock-turn . |
| 12 | It would 've been better but erm I think that these terms have now become so widely known there 's , there 's no way of changing it back . |
| 13 | According to his friend Peter Fonda , it gave him a ‘ real deep hurt inside ; there 's no way of resolving it , ever ’ . |
| 14 | There 's no way of avoiding it . |
| 15 | In that case a car dealer who was negotiating to buy a car told the seller that there was no possibility of repairing it and that it was fit only to lie scrapped . |
| 16 | He found a place for a year in the household of a wealthy London merchant where he started to translate the New Testament ; it became clear , however , that there was no possibility of printing it in England , so in 1524 he left for Germany , never to return . |
| 17 | Dewey , as is well known , divided knowledge into tens so that he could employ decimal notation ; when a particular subject turned out to have more than nine facets he had to group them together , often at the expense of logic , and if a new facet arrived in-conveniently there was no way of including it at an appropriate place in the hierarchy . |
| 18 | He had done nothing wrong , nothing at all , but there was no way of proving it , even to himself . |
| 19 | She could n't ask Aunt Sarah or Uncle Nick to help ; there was no way of explaining it to them without sounding crazy . |
| 20 | But there was no prospect of removing it as long as Mrs Thatcher remained leader . |