Example sentences of "[pers pn] be no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven months on , Ford people are admitting as much , just as the clever among them are no longer feigning surprise at our conclusions . |
| 2 | There are a total of 14 still-sealed potion bottles and vials here , but most of them are no longer magical due to age , evaporation , or adulteration . |
| 3 | Punchy thermals which delight the wings of gliders and do not trouble planes with a bit of weighty metal behind them are no longer conjured up by the morning sun to drive trepid microlight flyers back to earth . |
| 4 | Of course , as Dr Staton observed numbers may be diminished not simply by failure to trace couples but because some of them are no longer couples . |
| 5 | ‘ It is also an unbelievable chance for Germany to have the fifth most important tennis tournament in the world … a certainty also that tennis will continue there when Steffi Graf or I are no longer around . ’ |
| 6 | Mary Kingsley was certainly eccentric , not to say weird — a plain Victorian spinster with more of the masculine than feminine in her nature , who said of herself : ‘ The fact is I am no more a human being than a gale of wind is . ’ |
| 7 | I am no Sneak , no watcher , no Governess . |
| 8 | As far as our Elsie is concerned , I confess I am no nearer finding her , not directly anyway . |
| 9 | Now I am free , Lee thought — but in the thinking of it I am no longer so . |
| 10 | The anguished princess , says Morton , told one friend : ‘ If this is the price of public life then it is a price I am no longer willing to pay . ’ |
| 11 | I am no longer with the nuns but am to attend a day school . |
| 12 | I am no longer the chairman of ICI , having retired at the beginning of April 1987 . |
| 13 | ‘ I was told I am no longer entitled to apply ’ , he says . |
| 14 | And so goodbye , dear friend of my youth — for now I am no longer the boy you knew , but a man … |
| 15 | ‘ I am no longer a free agent . ’ |
| 16 | I am no longer obliged to lurk limply behind her . |
| 17 | I am no longer breathing . |
| 18 | I am no longer in control . |
| 19 | I have realised that I am no longer a spring chicken by tour standards — 28 in February — and the wrinkles are starting to appear , so , to prolong my career and my enthusiasm for the game , I am cutting down . |
| 20 | I think at times the national health service has been exploited , you know , oh er I am no going out today , I 'm no feeling well . |
| 21 | I am no longer a serving officer in the Fuerza Aérea . |
| 22 | And now I am no longer in charge . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I am no longer interested in politics , ’ said Ipuky . |
| 24 | I wake to someone xylophoning up and down my spine , and to the discovery that I am no longer the only customer in the massage room . |
| 25 | ‘ Sir , ’ said the lady , looking him straight in the eye as he paused in his task to glance at her , so that his hand stilled and his gaze remained on her serious face , ‘ I am no more the victim of circumstance than are you . |
| 26 | I am no longer obliged to be dutiful , I thank God ! ’ she snapped back . |
| 27 | When my hon. Friend began his question , I intended to say that it was a matter for the Catering Committee , but I am no longer sure that it is . |
| 28 | When they were privatised I was on the Opposition Front Bench and did the job so well that I am no longer there . |
| 29 | I am no longer the late Stephen Summerchild , a reserved man who is devoted to his family , with a passion for music . |
| 30 | I sometimes think that 's what wakes him — an obscure sense of loss , an occult awareness that I am no longer conscious . |