Example sentences of "there could be no [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be no more concrete evidence of our commitment to that group . ’ |
| 2 | There could be no more revealing insight into the Government 's priorities than their obsessive concentration on the 8.7 per cent . |
| 3 | There could be no more appropriate item with which to initiate such a project than the magnificent 12-part Motet In Memoriam Robert Carver which Ronald Stevenson composed for them in 1987–88 : a work which deliberately spans the centuries to invoke the spirit of Carver in new , late 20th-Century context . |
| 4 | There could be no more potent proxy for a new economic order in the nineties . |
| 5 | Yet there could be no more symbolic act of defiance than a currency with a separate exchange rate against the rouble . |
| 6 | The Compostela pilgrimage was , according to such first-hand accounts of it as there are , a robust and pretty indecorous enterprise , but there could be no more placid memento of it than Harambels . |
| 7 | It is not accidental that the assertion of ‘ the rights of man ’ has been characteristic of revolutionary regimes which aspired to interfere with and overturn the systems of law and society of their neighbours ; and there could be no more striking evidence of the antagonism of Soviet Russia to Trotskyism than that ‘ human rights ’ have to be forced down its throat at Helsinki or Belgrade like spoonfuls of brimstone . |
| 8 | There could be no more vivid illustration of the manner in which the railway station acted as a magnet for all the vehicles of its locality . |
| 9 | Dundee United will take the view that there could be no more fitting postscript to the public dispute between themselves and the Ibrox club over Duncan Ferguson 's future than if the big striker was to score the goal at Tannadice today which brought to an end Rangers ' remarkable unbeaten run of 36 matches . |
| 10 | Lukács argues that the novel can transcend this threat of dispersal through an assertion of a continuous temporality , but at the same time he formulates the process in the structure of a fall : ‘ Once this unity disintegrated , there could be no more spontaneous totality of being ’ . |