Example sentences of "[is] [conj] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth of the matter , he wrote , is that no one wants to be rescued . |
| 2 | The irony is that no VAT would be levied if hoteliers were to set up a separate sandwich bar business next to their property and handed out sandwiches and drinks . |
| 3 | Usually the problem is that no one is really taking charge and telling the others exactly what to do . |
| 4 | One reason I have written this code of ethics is that no one has to take short cuts ever . |
| 5 | The feeling is that no amount of legislative safeguards can entirely eliminate the risk of a chemical spill , wreaking havoc in this watery landscape where a network of mountain streams fed by high rainfall could quickly wash the damage into the drinking water , or down to the mussel farm and salmon fishery at the mouth of Killary harbour . |
| 6 | The first is that no one and no book can teach us to pray . |
| 7 | But the blindingly obvious fad is that no one is around to be disturbed . |
| 8 | The central problem with the set-up , however , is that no single body is charged with calculating the opportunity costs of environmental bossiness . |
| 9 | ‘ The one thing I learned is that no one does any building during times of political instability . ’ |
| 10 | One Serb said : ‘ The problem is that no one knows what will happen . |
| 11 | The trouble is that no other country is prepared to pay even as much ( ie , little ) as the Russians for surplus EC butter ; much of it would go rancid in the Community 's cold stores . |
| 12 | The result is that no party has a majority . |
| 13 | But the real wonder of pop biopics is that no one has made a movie about Jim Morrison before now ( The Doors opens on March 15 ) . |
| 14 | One is that no actual endangerment is required : the explosion need only have been inherently likely to endanger life , and the offence is committed whether or not anyone 's life was put in danger . |
| 15 | It makes me mad because the idea is that no guy would fancy a fat woman , that fat women are just a joke . |
| 16 | The impression you get is that no individual is taking care of your particular conference . |
| 17 | Essentially , it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step . |
| 18 | A more pressing issue for Europe is that no makeshift Italian government is likely to cut Italy 's public expenditure , let alone raise taxes , to reduce public debt to make the 1993 deadline set for European convergence at Maastricht . |
| 19 | As I considered the contents of the squadron report , it seemed to me that the probability was that the bodies were those of aircrew from supply aircraft , for there was some suggestion in the report that a Liberator and a Halifax had been lost over the Morvan when ferrying supplies ; but the point is that no proper statement was ever made in regimental records . |
| 20 | The only truly valid generalization that can be drawn is that no truly valid generalization is possible |
| 21 | The trouble is that no provision was made to house the people who were displaced . |
| 22 | A quite possible result though is that no one supplier is completely satisfactory on all counts across the whole range of products . |
| 23 | The problem is that no amount of self-knowledge can entirely express our full humanity , precisely because we are incomplete beings . |
| 24 | The second element in the right of silence is that no one should be compelled to betray himself . |
| 25 | Second , the presumption made by the healthy is that no one really wants to die . |
| 26 | What is vital is that no employer should approach disciplinary problems with a closed mind . |
| 27 | The fact is that no individual has complete independence in this AL . |
| 28 | The key to Homoeopathy is that no two people suffer from the same disease . |
| 29 | The great advantage is that no external stimuli are applied to the subjects of the observation — all their actions and the situations they are in are absolutely normal . |
| 30 | For the truth is that no single agent affects our planet as much as we do . |