Example sentences of "was no [adj] [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory ! |
| 2 | However , there was no reasonable basis for their believing that it was a television set . |
| 3 | His version of human freedom and motivation could easily have included poverty as a ‘ rational ’ reason for crime ; and there was no necessary reason for him to equate his social contract with the status quo as far as property relations were concerned ( after all , he did not equate it with the status quo in many other respects ) . |
| 4 | ’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all . |
| 5 | But every body you saw was a victim of this civil war , there was no real reason for them to die . |
| 6 | ‘ There was no real reason for it . |
| 7 | Really there was no other word for it , though only he or Mervyn could have said it . |
| 8 | Ken may have been well into his thirties now , but he still saw things very much as he did as a youngster , as though the editor he had played in The Buccaneer had been reincarnated into the Kenneth Williams starring — and now there was no other word for it ; that was precisely what he was doing — in Share My Lettuce . |
| 9 | She told me , too , of the mines , and how some of the young boys were terrified of going down the pit for the first time , but had to go , as there was no other work for them ; and how at first they had been put to work beside their father , loading the coal he cut , until they had overcome their fear . |
| 10 | Six patients remained in whom there was no apparent explanation for their DU disease and we have chosen for convenience to refer to these patients as having idiopathic DU . |
| 11 | Eithne , an accomplished singer who stood in for Barbara Dickson in Blood Brothers at London 's Lyric Theatre , says she left the soap because there was no future development for her Mrs Rogers . |
| 12 | It was no early night for him that night . |
| 13 | This was no small step for one so young but for a woman it was more remarkable since she was the first woman solicitor in Sheffield . |
| 14 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
| 15 | There was no objective standard for him to measure himself by — there never is in this kind of case , either you have the confidence in yourself , or you don't-all he could do was see himself reflected in her eyes , and it was not a pleasing portrait . |
| 16 | There was no way that Émile could get in contact with me without Jean-Claude 's knowledge , and there was no legit-imate excuse for him to do so openly . |
| 17 | A variety of EC directives have meant that the listing requirements for the Third market are now very similar to those of the USM and there was no clear rationale for them to be kept separate . |
| 18 | AS Sir Patrick Mayhew and Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring met in Dublin today to discuss the way ahead , following the local election results , there was no clear path for them to follow . |
| 19 | She did n't exactly like the situation , but it was no big deal for her . |
| 20 | There was no satisfactory explanation for their wearing the ‘ masks ’ at the time the injuries were inflicted . |