Example sentences of "was no [noun sg] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We got ourselves into one of those silly situations , in the middle of 1883 , which meant there was no way for me to remain . |
| 2 | Traffic was heavy and this was no day for me to pick up a ticket . |
| 3 | It was no problem for me to post a crew , and I did , and many of you must know I did post WAAF at the same time . |
| 4 | ‘ A smaller offer from Forest was put to my board and , frankly , there was no decision for us to make . |
| 5 | Granny had originally come to stay with us while her house was being fumigated but that had been months before and there was no excuse for her to continue living in our overcrowded home . |
| 6 | The structure was built to resemble a stone yurt — the outer wall was a continuous string of arches which were covered with felt panels , there was a planed timber floor , and there was no provision for anyone to sit down . |
| 7 | Officials refused to discuss his itinerary and , most unusually for such a senior member of the Royal Family , it was indicated that there was no plan for him to meet the public . |
| 8 | But there was no chance for him to rest in seclusion , even if he wished to do so — by April his brother was dying , and because of the urgency of the situation Eliot flew to New York on 22 April . |
| 9 | As a successful merchant banker there was no reason for her to know where the back door was in a BAC One-Eleven , and that the tail opened downwards with the stairs ! |
| 10 | There was no reason for me to fear it . |
| 11 | ‘ There was no reason for me to go on living . |
| 12 | ‘ There was no reason for me to pull in . ’ |
| 13 | Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point . |
| 14 | There was no reason for him to see her again . |
| 15 | There was no reason for him to do so because the claims that he wished to make were quite simple ( they did not involve complex interactions of different speaker variables ) , and because in his analysis the same patterns were repeated for every variable studied , tending in the same direction in every case in terms of both class and style ( several classes and several styles ) . |
| 16 | There was no reason for him to die . |
| 17 | But since this sudden , amazing improvement in the Baron 's health there was no reason for him to remain . |
| 18 | At all events , she had committed no crime , so there was no reason for him to pursue the matter any further . |
| 19 | There was no reason for him to feel at a disadvantage . |
| 20 | It was obvious that he did n't care a fig what she looked like , but that was no reason for him to tighten the purse-strings . |
| 21 | Since Vic was not a forester , there was no reason for him to follow the quaint ways of the forest . |
| 22 | Nor did their broadcasts attribute any part of the story to me — there was no reason for them to do that because I 'd told them nothing they did n't already know . |
| 23 | Yeah but they basically just do n't want to lose out either way , I mean there was no reason for them to join originally but when events happen and they see the tide turning almost , you know get with the bandwagon , I mean they , they do n't want now to be seen as the minority and the ones under threat , so you go with the er majority , with the , the stronger force |
| 24 | If the Masai had an educational system of their own which was functioning well according to their own criteria , there was no reason for them to view with favour the introduction into it , by people whose hegemony they accepted but did not welcome , of alien elements . |
| 25 | He said there was no reason for it to continue because the convoy had got through to Zepa . |
| 26 | But she had no milk to give it — so there was no reason for it to suck the teat , which would have helped the flow . |
| 27 | Which was fine , because it meant that there was no pressure for her to move on . |
| 28 | There was no hand for her to touch . |
| 29 | Mr Woolmer said : ‘ I felt Donald was overused in the World Cup when there was no need for him to bowl in the games against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe . ’ |
| 30 | There was no need for him to use the overdraft . |