Example sentences of "no [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was n't unusual for no contract to be signed — we 've worked with Selina for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | But there was no defence to be made out for the people she 'd met today . |
| 3 | This time there was no money to be won , and before term finished he went to see his professor , William Fleming . |
| 4 | And true to form Flippin Shytalk roars across the line to win again … the National Championship should be their 's this summer … they defy the dangers week in week out … there 's no money to be won just fun to be had … |
| 5 | But , despite throwing the machine round some corners behind the Old Kent Road , there is no chirp to be heard . |
| 6 | That piece of information shook her so much that she put up no resistance to being led off , except to say , ‘ Where are we going ? ’ |
| 7 | Having worked at a bakery during his university vacations , Ditton had no difficulty in being taken on again . |
| 8 | Well you were just talking about children erm my feeling is that we 're all children , there is no division between being a child and an adult and I think that they can accept a whole lot , but there 's a whole lot of adults that ca n't accept the shocks that are happening today and they put them into their subconscious and unfortunately it comes out in so many other ways — it comes over as a neurosis or as a mental disorder at some later date . |
| 9 | The peers also consulted the judges on occasion and when they did so in 1614 over the long-debated matter of the right of the King to tax through ‘ impositions ’ without Parliamentary approval , Coke took the view that the judges should not be required to give an opinion ‘ on the ground that they were expected in judicial course to speak and judge between the King 's majesty and his people , and likewise between His Highness 's subjects , and in no case to be disputants on any side ’ . |
| 10 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is no case to be made for taxpayers ' money being used to prop up Boris Yeltsin , who will turn out to be the David Owen of Russia ? |
| 11 | There is no excuse for being caught by a marked police vehicle — but there 's not much you can do about unmarked cars or cameras . |
| 12 | The former exists throughout the process of perception ; the latter , however , has no existence before being conceived by the mind , and exists only as a conclusion which arises as a result of , after , the mental operation of inferring that the state of affairs it describes is true . |
| 13 | Of all the community services on offer , he had chosen the coastguards , which involved nights spent quietly in a hut on the cliff tops watching for shipping ; and the hardest part of all the trials he endured in the Navy was being marooned on a ship for months on end with no opportunity to be alone . |
| 14 | What happens to the grief reaction when there has been little warning of the impending death , or for various reasons , where there has been no opportunity to be involved in the preparation process ? |
| 15 | George felt anxious that he had had no opportunity to be alone with Tamar , and so there had been no chance of warning her about the groom . |
| 16 | If there really is no choice then there is no decision to be made , so it is only a waste of time to pretend that there is . |
| 17 | Or a manufacturer could specify minimum quantity ( quantity forcing ) , or details of service and demonstration facilities , or quality criteria ( e.g. no hamburger to be sold more than two minutes after being cooked ) . |
| 18 | It is n't easy coping with a person who is twice your age and beset by problems you have no hope of being able to understand . |
| 19 | Those whose ‘ condition is due to improvidence or thriftlessness and there is no hope of being able to make him independent in the future ’ were left to destitution or the Poor Law . |
| 20 | He understood ; his shrinking flesh understood , and had no hope of being spared anything . |
| 21 | With no experience of being accepted for who and what they were and are , it is hard for them in their turn to accept the other for what he or she is , or is becoming . |
| 22 | This suggests to us that there 's probably no advantage to be gained from further tinkering with the law . |
| 23 | Carers can not receive another contributory or non-contributory benefit as well as ICA ; and ICA is deducted in full from means-tested income support and housing benefits , so that some carers receiving these latter benefits may see no advantage to be gained from claiming ICA . |
| 24 | There is no advantage to be gained by Opposition Members seeking to defend the indefensible . |
| 25 | The three teams ' fixtures would be rescheduled for Sunday , May 9 , with the same kick-off time so there was no advantage to be gained . |
| 26 | There is no advantage in being governed by a collection of exhausted ministers doggedly sitting at their desks making bad decisions . |
| 27 | On the other hand , in the relative absence of predators , there is no advantage in being very small , like a continental mouse . |
| 28 | Once a predator encounters a distasteful individual it avoids both types thereafter , so there is no advantage in being distasteful . |
| 29 | Trent had n't expected any , but took no pleasure in being proved correct . |
| 30 | One thing about him struck Pumfrey as being unboyish : he seemed to be taking no pleasure from being so sensationally at the centre of things . |