Example sentences of "but no " in BNC.
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1 | There 's like this sort of disease , but no one mentions it ; everyone behaves as though it 's normal , y' know inevitable that there 's vandalism an , violence an , houses burnt out an' wrecked by the people they were built for . |
2 | But no excuse for Hilda . |
3 | But no more interesting was my Picture Painted by a Genius of 1954 , no more interesting my Replica of a Diploma Submitted in Lieu of an Original Composition for the Award of a Degree . |
4 | Grand aims , he wrote , but no grand gestures . |
5 | The Grinder grinds but no chocolate emerges , he wrote . |
6 | All right as name of café , but no more . |
7 | But no easier to deal with for that reason . |
8 | Tried Danny , hoping a game would calm me down , but no reply . |
9 | Letter from Goldberg , he wrote , but no point in replying . |
10 | Yesterday he rang the bell for a long time but no point in opening the door . |
11 | On the doormat , there were a few late Christmas cards plus the inevitable letter from the bank , but no offers of job interviews . |
12 | I had n't enough money to get there by conventional means but no matter . |
13 | But no offence taken . |
14 | The way the writer resolved them is not adequately addressed … the issues are raised , but no explanation [ is given ] of how they were resolved in practice . ’ |
15 | His request was refused in a written memo from HQ , but no reason was given . |
16 | But no one had ever moved her like Lucy . |
17 | But no less for that ? |
18 | But no one else has ever even wound up that chain . |
19 | But no massed contingents from up Glen Lyon and none from along Loch Tay . |
20 | But no deep thought was needed : he would accept their offer and see what happened . |
21 | We have no quarrel with his perception of the poem 's tone or texture , which is correct , but no such ‘ proclamation ’ was made , or intended . |
22 | But no such general reduction can be carried out . |
23 | There is representation in a language but no knowledge , and therefore no thought in the human sense . |
24 | Any less than 8 , while developing some strength , would not stimulate muscle growth , and any more than 12 would lead to increased muscular definition but no growth in size . |
25 | Since muscle is heavier than fat but not as bulky , a small increase in muscle size compensates for a larger amount of fat loss , resulting in a considerable change in shape but no change in body-weight . |
26 | Political hotheads were demanding a sell-off ; but no wouldbe purchaser dared tangle with the horrendous staff rostering costs , the problems of management control , the antiquated working conditions , the railway operating hazards that frustrate a crew 's best efforts while landing them with the blame and , not least , the ever-lurking cynicism of the media . |
27 | ‘ They must have known that leases were in the pipeline but no one said anything to me . ’ |
28 | He 's not going to warn Shatov or tell the police , he 's going to make a statement ‘ for general edification ’ — words but no deeds , a turn towards sanity and life that might have been , and a horrific-comic Possessed moment of subtlest art . |
29 | One could do the same thing with ‘ unicorn ’ , which has sense but no verifiable reference . |
30 | Donald Davie has suggested that one reason for the explosion of theory is that it provides ‘ a stamping ground for the innumerable people in departments of English ( also of French , of German , of Classics ) who have energy and intelligence but no literary sensibility . ’ |