Example sentences of "no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its narrator and chief human presence is by no means straightforwardly a victim , and the difference between oppressor and oppressed can be hard to identify . |
| 2 | Salim gets out of Africa , and as he does so , there seem to be allusions to the journey upriver in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , which also ends ( though by no means hopefully ) with an Intended . |
| 3 | Literary careers can be founded on the impersonation and adulation of privileged behaviour ; but the literary works which have been written and inspired by English snobs and sports are by no means all boastful or complicit . |
| 4 | Her films are by no means as simple as they may have first appeared . |
| 5 | For one thing , I was extremely lucky in that the winter during which I was homeless was apparently the mildest this country has had for twenty years ( though it was quite cold enough for me ) and that was by no means the only remarkable piece of good fortune that I had . |
| 6 | For example , the gorgeous blue poppies , though by no means lime-haters , will always colour better in acid conditions and need soil which has been enriched with leaf mould and retains its moisture . |
| 7 | by no means the first place to be discovered , it soon established itself as a maritime port of central importance to Canada 's growing economy ; though it commenced as a Jesuit mission-place , which explains its ethereal qualities . |
| 8 | In this film Leonard recorded eight poems from his recent book ( ‘ For Wilf And His House ’ , ‘ Beside The Shepherd ’ , ‘ Poem ’ , ‘ Lovers ’ , ‘ The Sparrows ’ , ‘ Warning ’ , ‘ Les Vieux ’ and ‘ Elegy ’ ) ; the sleeve was careful to emphasise that he also wrote songs for a local group called The Stormy Clovers , by no means his first such work . |
| 9 | The faces and voices of the two young men , one about my age , the other hardly fourteen , one standing right behind the newspaper man the other nestling next to him , were by no means devoid of expression . |
| 10 | But when she came up against Australia 's Michelle Jaggard , a more experienced player but by no means a world-beater , she struggled even to get a game . |
| 11 | While it is convenient to have lots of equipment at your disposal , it is by no means essential . |
| 12 | A skyhook , then an unbelieving lunge and there I was , like a shipwrecked sailor washed up on the shore of an uninhabitable island , safe for the moment but by no means home . |
| 13 | The cap , then , falls within an overall grand vision of chanciness and risk ; Liputin 's teeth are by no means the only things that hang by a thread . |
| 14 | And obviously the novelist 's apocalypse is by no means identical with his received Christian one ; hence , in part , the divergence of his art from the things his notebooks show him wanting to say . |
| 15 | If meaning is brought to birth within the text , the text itself is the bearer of all the Reality that inheres in meaning ; and that , when one thinks about it , is , while by no means all the Reality there is , quite a good portion of that part of Reality which matters to us . |
| 16 | The experience of reading major works of literature can have an overpowering effect on the responsive reader ( usually , but by no means invariably , the young reader ) . |
| 17 | He appears once or twice in earlier cantos , but not flatteringly ; whereas in Canto 105 for instance we are told , by no means persuasively : |
| 18 | That English tradition of the amateur is of course a long one , and by no means ignoble , reaching back as it does through John Morley to Walter Bagehot , to Burke , to Addison , and so all the way to Philip Sidney and the Renaissance all-round man . |
| 19 | ( For undeniably , the cantos are not limpid ; much of them is n't ‘ speech ’ at all , but ‘ song ’ ; and of the parts that are speech , by no means all are ‘ natural ’ . ) |
| 20 | Pound 's case is by no means so clear-cut . |
| 21 | He by no means dismisses the claims of these poets , but gently and respectfully sets them aside — ‘ I do not feel that they have much part in this essay . |
| 22 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 23 | Some of them , by no means all , paid £7 to witness Mark Calcavecchia , Curtis Strange and Tom Kite win $100,000 ( £62,000 ) apiece . |
| 24 | This is by no means to be unrealistic about the difficulties facing our dialogue . |
| 25 | However , the problem is by no means solved . |
| 26 | Then there are toxic , corrosive and carcinogenic exhaust fumes and the spreading intrusiveness of traffic noise , which again are by no means limited to city centres . |
| 27 | Lonsdale 's ladies are by no means all aristocrats or the daughters of schoolmasters and clergymen ; they include washerwomen , milkwomen and servant girls ; the disreputable and the priggish , the contented spinster and the erring Duchess ; loving wives , bluestockings , governesses , actresses and invalids are all represented . |
| 28 | ‘ Lonsdale 's ladies are by no means all aristocrats . ’ |
| 29 | The political situation , if by no means settled has at least become clearer . |
| 30 | That may still be true of the set-piece studio interview — though even there the prior indication of ‘ lines of questioning ’ is by no means unknown ( and the viewer would probably be astonished at the general closeness of the atmosphere that prevails in the green room afterwards ) . |