Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [prep] no [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And the secular armies which established her hegemony for her on the Continent were in no position to undertake a full-scale military campaign against Ireland .
2 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 .
3 Scarman was in no doubt that the root cause of the rioting was unemployment and deprivation :
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 Panamanian air force was in no position to oppose the intervention , whatever its political leanings .
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 So , contrary to those who ascribe great importance to Keynesian policies , the boom was in no sense based on government deficits .
8 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 .
9 The DIA was in no hurry either .
10 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 .
11 For the moment , however , those in the pavilion were in no danger and the crowded audience which waited was entirely sympathetic to the leader 's case .
12 Russia 's economy remained overwhelmingly agrarian , the peasantry were in no position to provide a strong market for industry , and not until the following reign would the State itself embark upon large-scale industrial investment .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The Derry boss was in no doubt as to the task which awaits him at Tolka Park .
18 Saddam Hussein 's invasion was the clearest breach of the international rules imaginable ; his expansionist intentions and despotic nature were in no doubt ; western oil supplies were endangered and a consensus could readily be mustered against the invaders .
19 As time passed , however , the Church censors began to act as if the distinction were of no importance .
20 Those present at the meeting were in no doubt of her overriding philosophy : ‘ I own the company , my daughter took the photographs , therefore you use them .
21 That they , too , were out of reach at the moment was of no importance .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 The outcome of this process was in no way predetermined .
26 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 .
27 It was noted in the 1296 list that Plebs Varren was of no value and could not be assessed .
28 Shamlou was in no doubt that this would be a dangerous operation .
29 Yet this self-protective brand of public service was of no account to the Lordly Phantasms .
30 Locke 's philistinism was in no sense an aberration .
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