Example sentences of "[to-vb] be no [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just because he wants to leave is no reason for us to strike a bargain price , ’ Bassett said yesterday . |
| 2 | This assumes that the period of Newco 's ownership of shares in Target would be sufficiently short for there to have been no increase in their value , so that when the capital distribution takes place , there is no capital gains tax liability on the partners under s122 TCGA 1992 , nor a distribution for the purposes of s209 TA 1988 . |
| 3 | There seems to have been no element of corruption in this , despite the involvement of Poulson in a range of corrupt activities in the North East in the 1960s . |
| 4 | In this particular case , there seems to have been no question of halting supply , but undertakings were sought that , in times of high demand , outside customers ( , etc. ) would receive fair attention to their orders . |
| 5 | If polar bears are dominant in the Arctic , then there would seem to have been no need for them to evolve a white-coloured form of camouflage . |
| 6 | There seems to have been no motive for the attack . |
| 7 | There is , for instance , a showy and large-scale entrance to the Phaistos temple at the north-west corner ; at the equivalent point in the Knossos Labyrinth there seems to have been no entrance at all , in spite of the arguments of Arthur Evans and James Walter Graham ( see Castleden 1989 , pp. 12 and 189 ) . |
| 8 | Although there appears to have been no prosecution for attempted affray , there is no reason in principle why the inchoate offence should not apply . |
| 9 | At Allen Street there appears to have been no loss of productivity in his output . |
| 10 | But the fact that the coin caused the mechanism to operate is no reason for saying that the coin caused the bar to come out . |