Example sentences of "[pers pn] be no [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come to realise she was no puppet to be manipulated . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's no holiday to be in prison . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's no crime to be curious ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's no weather to be out without your jacket . ’ |
| 5 | But he says , it 's no need to be expensive but he said , do n't go out and buy a set of bowls and then hope that you 're gon na like it . |
| 6 | Then , you know , it might be a nice little picture but it 's no compliment to be likened to sheep ! |
| 7 | It was no night to be out in if one had a choice . |
| 8 | It was no day to be out , but I had an appointment to keep . |
| 9 | It would be worse if the army — ’ But it was no time to be arguing . |
| 10 | ‘ It was no place to be in high summer . ’ |
| 11 | It was no crime to be ambitious and greedy . |
| 12 | And this elder Edmund , their uncle , he was no child to be held in fosterage , but a young man of power and property and ambition . |