Example sentences of "[vb mod] be no [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that a solid body moving through a fluid medium such as air was in fact propelled by the air , which was cleft by the moving body and then rejoined behind it to provide the forward drive , for there could be no such thing as a vacuum , that is , mere nothingness . |
| 2 | ALDERSON B. : If this agreement were good , there could be no such thing as a nudum pactum . |
| 3 | Now a ‘ searching for something ’ or ‘ exploring ’ theme crops up a great deal in drama and there are many teachers who do not recognise that what looks like a tense , exciting , well-focused structure may be no such thing . |
| 4 | The extension of the YTS into a two year scheme and making it compulsory for those not in education through removing entitlements to other benefits , means that in future there may be no such thing as a ‘ young worker ’ or a ‘ young unemployed ’ under the age of eighteen . |
| 5 | Yet in industrial goods markets there may be no such thing as an average consumer ; each buyer 's demand pattern and requirement may be different . |
| 6 | What may look highly redistributive in a ‘ still ’ may be no such thing across a series of time periods . |
| 7 | ‘ Marriage ’ could become a purely social or religious ceremony — in which case there would be no such thing as divorce , legally speaking . |
| 8 | There were would be no such thing as time , either , in this situation , because for time to exist there must be events . |
| 9 | To reiterate the point just made , this is not an argument about the functional necessity for all societies to have a category of ‘ crime ’ but an argument about the positive qualities of what happens to be defined as crime under capitalism ; indeed , the argument is usually combined with the assumption that under socialism there would be no such thing as crime . |
| 10 | To this end there can be no such thing as useless information . |
| 11 | The Camerons had to accept that there can be no such thing as democracy between male dogs fighting over status in the human pack . |
| 12 | Yet at the same time this doctrine leads to the altogether counterintuitive conclusion that there can be no such thing as style or that style is simply a part of content . |
| 13 | Since there is normally no movement of funds there can be no such thing as exact financial statistics . |