Example sentences of "be no [noun pl] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This accounts for the fact that on cloudy nights , when there are no stars to be seen , they tend to wander off course and may even get completely lost . |
| 2 | Why should he be jealous if there are no gods to be jealous of ? |
| 3 | There are no reptiles to be found here , but there are the bones of strange armoured fish . |
| 4 | It is not true that there are no choices to be exercised differently ; and because there are choices , there is hope . |
| 5 | Lots of machines have been nicely packaged for the market , but there are no bargains to be had . |
| 6 | Note that this keyword must be included even if there are no users to be granted access . |
| 7 | Note that this keyword must be included even if there are no users to be granted access . |
| 8 | Note that this keyword must be included even if there are no users to be granted access . |
| 9 | At this point there are no eggs to be seen and this series of ‘ dry runs ’ will continue until both fish are ready to spawn . |
| 10 | There are no fossils to be found on Iona — it was formed before there was life on Earth , 1,500 million years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ It seems there are no servants to be had in the country , ’ Mrs Peterson grumbled . |
| 12 | He paused and added , ‘ If anyone took them , they must have been clever — there are no fingerprints to be found , apart from the two nurses ' . ’ |
| 13 | Its site , significantly , is visualized as private ; there are no buildings to be seen in the long perspective to the viewer 's right . |
| 14 | Sukie recovered , and there were no charges to be brought , but she was a favoured public child as well as a minor and something stuck . |
| 15 | In September 1974 , there were no gowns to be seen in Cambridge . |
| 16 | There were no bones to be broken . |
| 17 | Quite deliberately , she summoned the memory of the anguish of six years ago , the job she loved summarily barred to her and her Communications course sacrificed ; and she dwelt especially on the dilemma that had torn at her then , the agonising conflict between her obstinate determination to pursue an uninterrupted career in radio at a time when there were no positions to be had in Johannesburg but possibilities in Durban , and a heart-wrenching reluctance to leave her parents alone when advanced emphysema was shortening her father 's life so cruelly . |
| 18 | There certainly were no bodies to be seen . |
| 19 | There were no porters to be had . |
| 20 | But apparently its owner regarded it simply as a vegetable patch , for there were no flowers to be seen . |
| 21 | But again th there was no there was no clothes to be bought in the yard or issued in the yard or anything like that you simply bought them in the shops outside . |