Example sentences of "[noun sg] was no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura 's card was no doubt in her handbag . |
| 2 | The deal was no shock . |
| 3 | Jamila was no use to him and he did n't want to fuck her . |
| 4 | The theatre experiment was no more than that — an experiment . |
| 5 | Maxie was no believer in courting trouble — his wife nagged enough without adding to it . |
| 6 | Brailsford was no utopian . |
| 7 | He said that in some countries the president was no more than a decorative figure . |
| 8 | In contemporary eyes the theft was no wrong , no crime ; for it was the saint 's own wish — and the happy outcome , and the miracles she came to perform at Conques , proved that there was the home where she wished to dwell . |
| 9 | Lassus was no less versatile in his Italian pieces : such classic madrigals as his early Petrarch settings — ‘ Occhi piangete ’ , ‘ Amor che ved' ogni pensier ’ — and the profoundly melancholy Lagrime di San Pietro of his last years , mentioned in the previous chapter ( p. 246 ) , and the delicious humour of the Villanelle , Moresche et altre canzoni ( Paris , 1581 ) which include his best-known songs : the Landsknecht 's serenade in Germanic Italian , ‘ Matonna mia cara ’ , and ‘ O la , o che bon eccho ! ’ in which two quartets sing in close canon throughout . |
| 10 | At the same time as they were re-establishing themselves in Vietnam the French were finally being evicted , as they saw it , from Syria and the Lebanon and while these were League of Nations mandates rather than parts of the French Empire proper , their loss was no less bitterly resented . |
| 11 | but as he is making plans to leave Town this week-end , I fear the result was no dice . |
| 12 | Defeat was no disaster however to Boutin who still expects his fallen hero to rise again . |
| 13 | The 2–0 defeat was no disgrace . |
| 14 | In this case , Kemp had a thin skull , and his murder was no problem . |
| 15 | As I gave her an exaggerated account of my clashes with different members of my family , she continued to discourage me , saying that the work in London was hard and that exile was no easy way of life . |
| 16 | A squawking , dayglo-coloured parrot was no match for , say , the majestic eagle owl with its camouflage plumage , massive wings and awesome beak and talons . |
| 17 | Wednesday survived some fearsome pressure until Hirst 's strike provided enough breathing space to ensure Monkou 's 79th-minute reply was no more than a consolation goal . |
| 18 | But this affair of the mind was no easier , I can tell you , than our affair of the heart . |
| 19 | The little square was relatively sheltered , and in the hall the gale was no more than a distant , muffled roar . |
| 20 | By AD 70 , that fateful year of Roman conquest and banishment , the temple had fallen for good , and the classic priestly ritual was no more . |
| 21 | Well I , I can understand er his , his point of view in that firstly he 's saying quite correctly , that this tragedy was no one person 's fault . |
| 22 | Although they did not reach the top , Harry feels the attempt was no disgrace . |
| 23 | True , but the 1964 road car was no sluggard . |
| 24 | Offa had been a powerful king whose interventionist rule was no more acceptable to those outside the Mercian kingdom and its traditional dependencies than that of previous overlords . |
| 25 | Simms ' X-95 , Hurricane Tree , was the smallest boat in the ARC this year at just over 30ft ( 9m ) , but the size of the boat was no indication of the skipper 's ambitions . |
| 26 | Nenna was no more able to deny this than any other woman . |
| 27 | Yoshida was no radical and did not wish to see drastic changes taking place within Japan . |
| 28 | The current discussion of Vologsky 's ambition was no exception . |
| 29 | Because of the responsibility they had a pound was no covering it as far as they were concerned . |
| 30 | Robert 's mum , a hospital staff nurse , said : ‘ Robert must have been an emergency because he had a vocabulary of four words at the age of three and speech therapy was no good to him because he could n't hear what they were trying to teach him . |