Example sentences of "that [was/were] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean that were no problem . |
| 2 | ‘ There were a lot of problems with the welfare state , ’ I said , ‘ but that was no reason for trying to do away with it . ’ |
| 3 | That was no good . |
| 4 | That was no small gain to set in the balance against the more obvious Erastianism of the new system . |
| 5 | I caught all through and finished with 7 lb 4oz but that was no match for Paul who took 9 lb 12 oz to the scales . |
| 6 | No , that was no good . |
| 7 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 8 | If Charles chose to throw an opportunity away , that was no reason to throw every scrap of decent behaviour away too . |
| 9 | She felt none , but that was no obstacle to showing a little . |
| 10 | He informed a hushed court that , even if the trooper 's wife was ‘ playing around ’ , that was no excuse for murder , premeditated or spontaneous . |
| 11 | That was no problem nowadays , books travelled the aether like light and sound . |
| 12 | ‘ That was no carver 's or miniaturist 's craft , but black magic , for that was the castle in which I lived , and the forests and meadows round it were mine , where I roamed freely , with my beloved brother , until the black artist came one night seeking shelter from foul weather . |
| 13 | That was no look of innocence or ignorance . |
| 14 | Johnny Miller hit his shots high , ballooned them , and that was no good this year . |
| 15 | That was no ordinary dog , that was a trained musk-hunter. they bought that do in Tibet for five thousand rupees . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ That was no accident . ’ |
| 17 | They were aware of the danger of individuals being tempted to enter into excessively burdensome commitments , but that was no reason to restrict access to a facility which the vast majority used with discretion . |
| 18 | The best of her was preserved in his memory , ‘ the sea remains the sea ’ , but that was no help to him now . |
| 19 | This vision might not always be met but that was no excuse not to go on trying . |
| 20 | If people did not exercise their rights , that was no fault of the law : |
| 21 | Of course the girl was gauche and tactless , but that was no reason to be unkind . |
| 22 | She did n't mind taking him to Plenty , that was no distance . |
| 23 | That was no help to my instant gloom . |
| 24 | She said that was no excuse for not informing the next of kin of the three crew members of the Delos who had died . |
| 25 | ‘ That was no shabby old character ’ , I am firmly corrected , ‘ it was the Archbishop — and his nose is just cold . |
| 26 | What happened after that was no business of ours . |
| 27 | But that was no mean achievement . |
| 28 | To William Joyce that was no hardship . |
| 29 | It was obvious that he did n't care a fig what she looked like , but that was no reason for him to tighten the purse-strings . |
| 30 | That was no jackdaw 's call — although for just a moment I had taken it to be . |