Example sentences of "no [noun] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After anxious consideration I have reached the conclusion that whatever Reg. v. Morris did decide it can not be regarded as having overruled the very plain decision in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 that appropriation can occur even if the owner consents and that Reg. v. Morris itself makes it plain that it is no defence to say that the property passed under a voidable contract . |
| 2 | Developers frequently obtain planning permission to build residential property near to existing factories , sewage disposal works , waste tips and other potential odour emitters , yet it is no defence to prove that the plaintiff came to an existing nuisance . |
| 3 | She had given him no opportunity to indicate that there was an old friend with him — not that there was , at that point , but there might have been , and if there had been , it was hardly his fault if Alexandra had chosen to come knocking on the door without giving him a chance to explain — and then getting stroppy when she found someone had got there before her . |
| 4 | I have no research to prove that it is an effective relaxation technique , but everyone who has experienced it asks for it when they come back for more treatment . ’ |
| 5 | I have no research to prove that it is an effective relaxation technique , but everyone who has experienced it asks for it when they come back for more treatment . ’ |
| 6 | No good to say that Strathtay was not ready for them . |
| 7 | Teesside Operations has no data to indicate that Wilton operations is the cause of any ill health in the surrounding community . |
| 8 | However , there is no data to show that first babies really do cry more — it is just a subjective impression . |
| 9 | There must be no lecturing to those who are hardest hit and no attempt to suggest that a fuss is being made about nothing . |
| 10 | Editor , — Mike Dudley and colleagues advise caution in extrapolating our results regarding activity undertaken by nurse practitioners in accident and emergency departments on the grounds that we made no attempt to ensure that nurse practitioners were actually on duty on the two days chosen for the census . |
| 11 | It was no help to discover that I was not alone in my distaste for the new order because , along with the ever-present sexism , I had to fight the crueller jibes of ageism . |
| 12 | For these reasons it is no exaggeration to claim that the increasing drift to training at the expense of education , in adult education as elsewhere , represents a very real threat to a democratic society . |
| 13 | It would be no exaggeration to claim that the whole of present-day transplantation surgery is based on his original insight and on his subsequent collaboration with Sir Peter Medawar , which led to the latter 's Nobel Prize . |
| 14 | It is no exaggeration to say that these three introductions were of enormous importance to the future of the Army . |
| 15 | It 's no exaggeration to say that Kos will be THE next big place for young people . |
| 16 | It is no exaggeration to say that the task of providing classes of students with adequate and representative material to illustrate a course on the diseases of farm animals is still one of the most intractable problems veterinary colleges face today ; few have solved it satisfactorily . |
| 17 | It is no exaggeration to say that tomorrow there will be many drivers who owe their continued good health and looks to the fact that they bought an airbag-equipped Honda today . |
| 18 | So far as Government Bills are concerned , it is no exaggeration to say that the substantial task of legislating will have been largely discharged before the Bill is even read a first time in the House in which it is introduced ( Bills may normally be introduced in either House , thence proceeding to the other ) . |
| 19 | It 's no exaggeration to say that almost half of our callers now either raise the issue or need to have it raised with them . |
| 20 | The mid-'70s are now seen as something of a cultural wasteland for rock and it is no exaggeration to say that Wednesday 's NME was the highlight of the musical week for a generation . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is no exaggeration to say that Harnack 's exposition expresses the popular conception of Christianity of the contemporary Christian ‘ man in the street ’ — a broadly ethical Unitarianism , in which Jesus is seen as a noble teacher and inspiring example of love and heroic self-sacrifice . |
| 22 | It is no exaggeration to say that today in the EC it would be possible to write a detailed personal history of every man , woman and child from the information contained in a variety of computer files . |
| 23 | Indeed , as early as 1954 , James Kinsley notes that " it is no exaggeration to say that most of our students — Scots , English and Welsh alike — come to us hardly able to construe the English language , and unschooled in the patient , critical reading we require of them . " |
| 24 | It is exactly the same attitude as we find in Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales ; and it is no exaggeration to say that a Suffolk stallion leader , like Charles Rookyard , was in direct line with the carter in The Friar 's Tale . |
| 25 | It is no exaggeration to say that every committee , every department of every local authority , in Britain will be affected by some aspect of the 1992 process . |
| 26 | And it 's no exaggeration to say that it took years of sifting through the wreckage of myself to find a woman I could begin to take some pride in again . |
| 27 | It is no exaggeration to say that the Word is the prime tool used by the Spirit of God in advancing the Christian mission . |
| 28 | It is no exaggeration to say that this function of the budget shifts the emphasis away from the ‘ actual ’ results as recorded in the financial accounts , towards the budget . |
| 29 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |
| 30 | It is no exaggeration to say that the Bayeux speech established a new direction for postwar Gaullism . |