Example sentences of "be no [noun sg] for [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all Christians , those of the Orthodox family have remained the most conservative , Their cultural roots go back to the Byzantine Empire and there has been no event for them comparable to the Reformation or Vatican II . |
| 2 | You could n't have one without the other or there 'd be no room for us all . |
| 3 | Well , chummy , my scores are so extensive there 'd be no room for your pifling efforts . |
| 4 | She claimed that ‘ … there could be no redress for their horrible outrages in the County of Cornwall by reason of the general dread of the malice of Clemens and his lawless gang ’ . |
| 5 | Billy Bingham , whose make-do-and-mend team were no match for their southern neighbours ' withering power game , added his good wishes . |
| 6 | Although the Orders of Friars were influential in university life in Oxford there is no proof for their academic activities here . |
| 7 | There is no room for their separate existence in the all-embracing picture of the cosmos . |
| 8 | But so many once-wealthy children are leaving the private sector that there is no room for them all at the most popular schools . |
| 9 | I have my pocket calculator and there are always things which need doing for which there is no need for my big computer . |
| 10 | But there 's no substitute for its warm aromatic bouquet . |
| 11 | There was no pity for his evident loneliness and many stories circulating about his arrogance and the superior manner in which he parked the cheaply-framed photograph of his parents on his night table . |
| 12 | I was no match for your proud , muscular strength : after a few yards I was exhausted , and you would take over , shoving the burden along with tireless energy . |
| 13 | The last number , in which there was no room for my long article ( which in any case formed part of a backlog ) appeared in January 1939 . |
| 14 | McLeod 's family placed a similarly strong emphasis on the value of education but failed , not because of the methods the parents chose to ram it home — on his own admission , they were not ‘ overstrict ’ — but because they set unachievable objectives for him ; nothing short of these objectives would satisfy and so there was no reward for his best efforts . |
| 15 | It was no Christmas for me this Christmas . |