Example sentences of "[be] no [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're no use to it starved . ’ |
| 2 | Apart from the time Gould would have spent stalking , shooting , skinning , and preparing these and a host of other birds , there would have been no possibility of him visiting all these different localities and reaching the west bend of the Murray . |
| 3 | There 'd been no call for him to attend . |
| 4 | ‘ From the moment he caught the bear 's attention there could have been no chance of him escaping . |
| 5 | But there had been no question of them taking up polo professionally . |
| 6 | Something unforeseen and urgent had happened , since Sean had obviously known of it yesterday afternoon , and there had been no opportunity for him to inform her . |
| 7 | Even his marriage to Primaflora in some way had charmed them although , of course , there had been no opportunity for her to visit either Episkopi or Kouklia . |
| 8 | Two carriages took the Bradford family to early morning service , though it would have been no distance for them to walk . |
| 9 | While studying spinning in Huddersfield ( as part of her degree course in textile design at Middlesex Polytechnic ) there had been no time for her to try out the machine , so the then sceptical technician told her to come back later . |
| 10 | It would have been no trouble to him to write the exchange in modern English : ‘ It 's always like that with the things men start off on … |
| 11 | If polar bears are dominant in the Arctic , then there would seem to have been no need for them to evolve a white-coloured form of camouflage . |
| 12 | ‘ If only I 'd known the truth about you , Shiona , there would have been no need for me to keep running away from my feelings for you . |
| 13 | There had been no need for her to write that letter . |
| 14 | When she hears what I have to say to her , there will be no question of her opening her lips on this subject . |
| 15 | She wished her parents lived in the Aran Islands and that there could be no question of her having to go home every night . |
| 16 | ‘ There can be NO QUESTION of you staying on . ’ |
| 17 | He realized that because he saw the new world in the people 's eyes ; and if the populace wanted change , then there could be no return to what had been . |
| 18 | It would be no problem for her to make a meal for two , or suggest he bring a take-away , and , prior to this morning , she felt she probably would have agreed to that . |
| 19 | In which case there would be no capital for him to start up again other than Tommy 's back pay and a few pounds he 'd managed to save himself . |
| 20 | There must also be no opportunity for anyone to claim that you have been given , or are giving , preferential treatment which puts you or others at an advantage , for example , over other organisations who may be tendering for the same work or other colleagues working for the organisation . |
| 21 | There should be no complacency about who seems to be winning the battle . |
| 22 | There 'll be no chance for me getting a job . |
| 23 | there 's a little boy there 'd be no chance of him going in there anyway . |
| 24 | Whatever one man tells another about a woman 's sexual inclinations and whether or not she demonstrates her unwillingness , it is hard to see why a man should be able to rely for consent on the word of another man or why there should be no obligation upon him to consult her himself . |
| 25 | But there can be no excuse for what happened . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ There 'll be no talk of us leaving . |
| 27 | If there were no refractoriness ( no failures to experience X when trying to have an X-experience ) there could be no basis on which to draw a distinction between appearance and reality , and without this distinction there can be no possibility of thinking about reality . |
| 28 | With that many people playing , it sounds like there 'll be no room for anyone to come in and listen . |
| 29 | There will be no pressure on them to publish these results , however . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd expect you to stay a couple of years , but obviously there 's going to be no pressure on you to move on at the end of that period . |