Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the start , they had worked together like brothers , with respect and affection , and Coleman 's grief was in no way lightened by a suspicion that the killers might have fingered Asmar through him . |
| 2 | Scarman was in no doubt that the root cause of the rioting was unemployment and deprivation : |
| 3 | The Panamanian air force was in no position to oppose the intervention , whatever its political leanings . |
| 4 | It seemed ( see , for instance , our Interim Report , 1988 ) that , right up to the moment when the repatriation of the Cossacks began , there remained a complete and unresolved contradiction between this insistence by 5 Corps and the reiterated insistence by AFHQ that force was in no circumstances to be used . |
| 5 | The plaintiffs then argued that they were entitled to equal treatment by the law ; it was unjust that they should be compelled to use the Convention , the translation requirements of which they found insurmountably expensive , whilst the foreign defendant was under no such burden . |
| 6 | In proceedings against him by the Attorney-General it was held in the Court of Appeal that the charge was unlawful and that the defendant was under no obligation to pay it . |
| 7 | If , therefore , in the present case the revenue was under no contractual obligation to repay the money , and had refused to exercise such residuary discretion as it had to repay , it is difficult to see on what ground its refusal to repay could have been challenged , except on very narrow grounds such as bad faith : cf. the Chetnik case [ 1988 ] A.C. 858 , 873g , per Lord Bridge of Harwich . |
| 8 | So , contrary to those who ascribe great importance to Keynesian policies , the boom was in no sense based on government deficits . |
| 9 | I was keept there for seven months , and so my edication was worth no less than three shillin and sixpence — there 's for " ee ! |
| 10 | The defence has also succeeded where the employee was under no pressure to take a particular risk but deliberately chose a dangerous method of working . |
| 11 | The DIA was in no hurry either . |
| 12 | Pepper was in no mood for mercy , however , and in the 58th minute he broke free from a maul , went inside Graves and , with Moon hanging on , crashed over near the post for Gregory to convert . |
| 13 | His answer was that the village was in no worse state than when he bought the estate and that he had spent over £3000 on improvements though the villagers were legally liable to the cost . |
| 14 | The stair of my billet creaked , however , and no matter how carefully I tiptoed , in the morning I was always greeted with , ‘ We heard you come in last night ’ , and of course I felt guilty , especially as we could not defend ourselves , having to pretend that our work was of no account . |
| 15 | The original proposal was for no guaranteed funding and payment to be in arrears . |
| 16 | The Committee was in no doubt that , so far as any data protection principles were concerned , they should be universal and not dependent upon the particular form of system or record . |
| 17 | The campaign was to no avail : the 90% grant was never received and the District 's Annual Report for 1960–61 was the last to mention the issue . |
| 18 | The judge was in no doubt that if the defendant had sold the contents of his report to a newspaper that would have been a breach of confidence . |
| 19 | The Derry boss was in no doubt as to the task which awaits him at Tolka Park . |
| 20 | That they , too , were out of reach at the moment was of no importance . |
| 21 | Picture Post was in no doubt about their justification : ‘ Our plan for a new Britain is not something outside the war , or something after the war . |
| 22 | We have recently received a claim from a class member who had an accident in a class and as the teacher was in no way responsible that claim had to be refused . |
| 23 | Taken by Mr Browning to view it — though since it had already been rented her approval was of no importance — she was at once charmed . |
| 24 | The outcome of this process was in no way predetermined . |
| 25 | Dispirited and half-starving , the population was in no state to weather the greatest catastrophe ever to strike the Old World : the Black Plague of 1111 . |
| 26 | It was noted in the 1296 list that Plebs Varren was of no value and could not be assessed . |
| 27 | Shamlou was in no doubt that this would be a dangerous operation . |
| 28 | Yet this self-protective brand of public service was of no account to the Lordly Phantasms . |
| 29 | Locke 's philistinism was in no sense an aberration . |
| 30 | The document said the Commissioner was in no doubt he had breached Garda disciplinary regulations in that he associated with a prostitute at Wilton Place , Dublin , on April 16 , 1992 . |