Example sentences of "are no [adj] [noun] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the tense markers in JC are not verbs , but invariant particles , there are no syntactic grounds for identifying British English did ( the past tense of do ) with Creole did ( a past tense marker , but not the past tense of do , which would be en , bin or did do ) . |
| 2 | There are no simplistic formulae for judging the ‘ correct ’ proportions for the allocation of funding or for resolving contradictions inherent in the situation . |
| 3 | But there are no suitable harbours for landing the dredged spoil . |
| 4 | This simplifying assumption may turn out to be incorrect — future psycholinguistic research may provide evidence that different lexicons are involved in the perception and production of language , or that different lexicons are involved in the processing of spoken and written language — but at present there are no good reasons for rejecting the simplifying assumption of a single mental lexicon . |
| 5 | The early bipedal hominids were smaller than us so it is not surprising that they had smaller skulls , but there are no good grounds for supposing that men have gradually been evolving into creatures of greater and greater intelligence . |
| 6 | However , we shall adhere to the view ( treated more fully in Appendix A ) that there are no good grounds for supposing that systems designed to model relationships in external worlds will give us any insight into the syntagmatic links used by human syntax when it joins words into phrases and sentences . |
| 7 | But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance . |
| 8 | Comment : There are no systematic procedures for collecting and reporting regularly on such information to provide a basis on which the Authority might provide coherent curriculum policies . |
| 9 | There are no inductive procedures for arriving at perfectly adequate paradigms . |
| 10 | There are no medical grounds for distinguishing between the over seventies and the under seventies in terms of heart surgery . |
| 11 | In Persian uses of Arabic script , for instance , words are distinguished from each other by the forms the letter takes at the beginning , middle or end of a word but there are no particular conventions for indicating where a sentence begins and ends . |
| 12 | There are no nationwide facilities for recycling aluminium pie trays ( although aluminium cans can be recycled ) . |
| 13 | But is there not a contradiction between being so fiercely hostile to relativism in history and aesthetics and at the same time asserting that there are no objective criteria for deciding whether a work is good or bad ? |