Example sentences of "that it [was/were] [prep] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told me that it was of no use to me any more and that I 'd be better off letting them have it . |
| 2 | Those who advocated it argued that it was of no use to abolish selection at 11 + , in the name of justice and fairness , and then reintroduce selection a few months later , by streaming children once at school . |
| 3 | The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance . |
| 4 | The police officer 's initial response in evidence — he was ‘ satisfied that it was of no evidential value to our case ’ — was unfortunate and regarded by the judge as ‘ striking , ’ notwithstanding his later qualification that it was of no value in any direction . |
| 5 | The police officer 's initial response in evidence — he was ‘ satisfied that it was of no evidential value to our case ’ — was unfortunate and regarded by the judge as ‘ striking , ’ notwithstanding his later qualification that it was of no value in any direction . |
| 6 | Cautiously she admitted it but said in the same breath that it was of no consequence because her father had died for political reasons . |
| 7 | Yet the revenue maintains that it was under no legal obligation to repay the wrongly extracted tax and in consequence is not liable to pay interest on the sum held by it between the date it received the money and the date of the order of Nolan J. If the revenue is right , it will be enriched by the interest on money to which it had no right during that period . |
| 8 | It is , of course , important to remind ourselves that the Council went out of its way , for instance , to reiterate that it was in no way contradicting Vatican I and instances of contradiction should not be lightly proposed . |