Example sentences of "no [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , he pointed out , no one could possibly conceive what life would be like after the death of images . |
| 2 | Rooms jangle after rows and no one could argue like me and Martin ! |
| 3 | Very neatly and no one could say when , but something had died that night . |
| 4 | Only an idealized observer could see both the inner processing and the causal relations of the symbols to outside objects that give them meaning : no one could actually be that idealized observer , because each observer is confined to operating on the symbols that are within his computational machinery , and this excludes their external causal relations . |
| 5 | No one could fail to understand the Onlooker 's reaction to the tale just unfolded . |
| 6 | No one could doubt that the application of the academic mind to literature has been salutary in bringing rigour and discipline into criticism : cleaner texts , scholarly annotations , precise analysis , intelligent — even transforming — interpretations and readings ; and an intolerance for woolly emotional responses , vague inflated recommendations , and subjective wallowings of all kinds . |
| 7 | ( For Bottome herself says : ‘ No one could write better than Ezra when he was not trying to score off T.S . |
| 8 | But whatever their collective response to coming second , no one could complain of losing to a Bath side so replete with experienced English caps and burgeoning talent . |
| 9 | No one could therefore call for the closure of incineration plants at a stroke , because noxious chemicals have to go somewhere . |
| 10 | Although there was a tacit assumption among the Belgian authorities that the attack must have been anti-Semitic in nature , no one could speculate as to its source . |
| 11 | A delighted Mason could not be sure which punch ended Biggs 's interest in the proceedings and no one could be sure about the outcome as the bell approached . |
| 12 | No one could think that improvement is not necessary to safety , especially in quarrying , construction , diving or works transport . |
| 13 | He stands by what he said , and , sadly , many of his criticisms are still valid : the team have still not bought a video camera despite a large injection of cash from the Sports Council and no one could say that the preparation training for the world championships — one weekend in the Kendal Judo Club — has been anything but derisory . |
| 14 | No one could quite understand what Karpov was trying to do in Saturday 's game against Artur Yusupov . |
| 15 | Wilf Rostron , a left-back on loan from Hillsborough , carved a niche in Bramall Lane folklore by nullifying another event no one could recall having happened before — Steve Bull disowning a goal . |
| 16 | But no one could question her readiness and her courage . |
| 17 | In recognition of the general interest in avoiding the disruptive effect of such proceedings on the public administration no one could apply for judicial review unless they had successfully applied ex parte for leave . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher said no one could know the direction in which free nations would progress . |
| 19 | The world was so complex that tiny events could produce enormous effects by a process of causality so complicated that no one could trace it . |
| 20 | The example always given was that the fluttering of a butterly 's wing in the forests of Amazonia could change the climate of the north Atlantic , which might in theory be true because things very often changed just at the margin , and no one could trace quite how . |
| 21 | No one could understand why he volunteered for the Commandos . |
| 22 | Later in life no one could have called him dull-eyed or sharp-faced . |
| 23 | Told by high authority that no one could understand him in a pulpit , he worried about sermons more than anything . |
| 24 | Whether or not he was a sound thinker , on which they could disagree , no one could doubt that they had a professor who loved his subject ; he bubbled with it . |
| 25 | ( Notice the change which the Durham professorship , and Joan 's coming , wrought — in 1940 no one could conceive of this absent-minded man as a bishop , and six or seven years later the electors to the see of Edinburgh mulled over his name and decided that it would not do , and five years after that both archbishops and the prime minister 's office were agreed that he would be a very good bishop . ) |
| 26 | Since no one could imagine that in these circumstances or in any other circumstances anyone could successfully impersonate Ramsey , the ritual was a piece of legal nothing which allowed a Protestant agitator the chance of publicity which might help his own cause but must also help Ramsey . |
| 27 | No one could cavil with that , either then , or in historical retrospect . |
| 28 | But she would have those things for ever ; she would have them in her head , in her memories and her dreams , and no one could take that away from her . |
| 29 | All they could do was to look at her but no one could read Rose 's face and they turned back to their books . |
| 30 | No one could listen with cold blood and sluggish pulses to the quickening crescendo of the roar preceding the final shout of ‘ Goal ! ’ |