Example sentences of "[pron] [be] no [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am no art historian but I appreciate fine works of art , and would just like to make two points . |
| 2 | I admit I am no Bible scholar , but I have read it , and what I have found there does n't tally with that statement at all . |
| 3 | I 'm not that good , I 'm no D I Y freak , even now . |
| 4 | ’ Man , I 'm no askin' fir proamises . |
| 5 | VAN MORRISON — Best Of Volume Two ( Polydor ) : I 'm no Morrison fan , but even I know this is a duff collection . |
| 6 | I 'm no I 'm no speed merchant as far as maths is concerned |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , I 'm no Sherlock Holmes ! |
| 8 | George Gifford 's ignorant peasant also made some valid points in his defence ; at one point , for example , he declared : ‘ I know men which are no scripture men which serve God as well as the best of them ’ ; and he added : ‘ is it not enough for plain countrymen , ploughmen , tailors and such others , for to have their ten Commandments , the Lord 's Prayer and the belief ? ’ |
| 9 | Now Sidney , 'er 'usband , 'e 's a decent bloke , but 'e 's no oil paintin' . ’ |
| 10 | A rooster which is no poultry offering |
| 11 | But getting fit takes time and commitment and if you 're no spring chicken , you have to take it easy along the way . |
| 12 | But getting fit takes time and commitment and if you 're no spring chicken , you have to take it easy along the way . |
| 13 | All right , so she 's no Ginger Rogers . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's no niece o'mine , ’ grumbled Jack , shrugging helplessly when his daughter turned a horrified look on him . |
| 15 | She is no plaster saint . |
| 16 | Its only significant achievements came at the outset , when the Great Powers recognized the legitimacy of de Gaulle 's government and invited France to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council — a status which would almost certainly not have been offered , had there been no de Gaulle and no Free France . |
| 17 | Either because they fail in any case to meet service requirements ( often set at six months ) or , where there are no service requirements because any " temporary " employee is explicitly excluded , seasonal workers are not covered by company sick pay schemes designed to pay more than statutory benefits . |
| 18 | One big difference is that there are no missionary organisations involved in health care . |
| 19 | Biotechnology , in the form of plant and animal breeding , also has a long history , beginning with the first agriculturalists c. 10 kyr BP , but developments in genetic engineering in the 1970s and 1980s are opening up possibilities that have no historical parallels and thus there are no base-line data against which it is possible to predict future environmental changes that genetically engineered organisms may promote . |
| 20 | I think one can put forward fairly persuasive arguments that there are no life forms a good deal more advanced than ourselves in our galaxy , simply because I believe that social and environmental and sort of curiosity value factors would have led them to reveal their presence in various ways . |
| 21 | Although there are no rugby stadia in the country of sufficient capacity , there are several soccer venues which could more than adequately serve rugby 's needs . |
| 22 | Modesty asserted — he is selected to run in several events for his school against Mountain Ash and he writes : ‘ I hope there are no crack runners because I am no crack . ’ |
| 23 | She says I always go with my bike shopping — I could n't imagione to go by car — there are no problems parking … |
| 24 | She says I always go with my bike shopping — I could n't imagine to go by car … there are no problems parking … and can put lots of things in my bags . |
| 25 | This theory argues that the bond market is segmented by maturity range and that there are no spillover effects between each market segment . |
| 26 | There are no afternoon BAGS meetings today . |
| 27 | Often there are no tour guides and travellers are getting lost , or returning with spiritual , mental and sometimes physical distress . |
| 28 | Where there are no music specialists in post in primary schools , general class teachers are often driven to almost exclusive use of schools ' broadcasts , both for assembly and for class music . |
| 29 | If output could be expanded up to the point unc where price equals marginal cost , there would be an extensive gain in social welfare , namely the shaded area. , Making the simplifying assumptions that there are no income effects and that any effects on the distribution of income are unimportant , this area may stand for the true change in social welfare . |
| 30 | Thus there are no effluent problems for the operator , the local EHO or Estates Manager , and maintenance costs are reduced . |