Example sentences of "[pron] is no [noun sg] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it seems that according to Lord Diplock such reasoning is merely the invention of a fancied ambiguity , which is no reason for denying the ‘ plain ’ meaning of a statute . |
| 2 | One is that any attempt to draw a line between the meaning of a word and ‘ encyclopaedic ’ facts concerning the extra-linguistic referents of the word would be quite arbitrary ; another is that there is no motivation for isolating ‘ pragmatic meaning ’ as a separate domain of lexical meaning . |
| 3 | 2 colour is to be used at Survival level and there is no cost for binding — the sheets will be shrink wrapped — or for stiff covers . |
| 4 | They have , sensibly , realised that the benefits from proceeding with caution outweigh the risks and there is no case for banning the practice outright . |
| 5 | In the wider context Regan contends that , ‘ though the ( economic ) heavens fall ’ there is no case for protecting society ‘ if the protection in question involves violating the rights of others [ viz. farm animals ] ’ ( 1983 : 346–7 ) . |
| 6 | But nothing is implied by the new study of the utility of AZT in the treatment of those in whom symptoms have already appeared ; there is no case for abandoning that treatment , at least on the evidence now available . |
| 7 | It is the greatest weakness of this wider view of accounting that there is no system for producing the data , which is verifiable in the way that double-entry bookkeeping is . |
| 8 | Unless there is personal identification and commitment , then there is no responsibility for making things work — one of the reasons for the generally poor attendance levels at meetings where governors present their annual report to parents is that the system is imposed on schools . |
| 9 | The IWC has said that there is no scope for slaughtering minke whales for fear that they might be driven into extinction . |
| 10 | There is no proposal for measuring accuracy of processing of dictionary text during production . |
| 11 | But there is no scale for measuring our efficiency to smell . |
| 12 | Under both Buildings and Contents sections , if the home has been insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied for a period in excess of 30 days , there is no cover for bursting , leaking or overflowing , etc . |
| 13 | At present , there is no provision for accommodating this diversity . |
| 14 | TCG is biased against the taxpayer and in favour of the Revenue , because losses can not be carried back and there is no provision for carrying forward unused annual exemptions nor for top-slicing ( spreading the gains over the years during which they have occurred ) . |
| 15 | There is no excuse for holding a manuscript for a year in the review process . |
| 16 | Nowadays , there is no excuse for getting into trouble . |
| 17 | There is no excuse for inflicting them on your fellow-citizens by saying it is done in a good cause . |
| 18 | So there is no excuse for ignoring the chance to communicate . |
| 19 | There is no warrant for construing clause 9(a) in such a manner as to cover costs , charges and expenses of an unreasonable amount or unreasonably incurred . |
| 20 | Even where the company is viewed as a purely private phenomenon , however , there is no justification for regarding the quality of management decision making as a matter that is ‘ private ’ in relation to the shareholders . |
| 21 | They certainly provide no good evidence for reducing the weight given to standardised mortality ratios in the formula and there is no justification for encouraging the use of the national formula for subregional allocation . |
| 22 | ‘ In my judgment , in the class of documents with which we are now faced there is an overwhelming bias in favour of the public interest being served by the disclosure of those documents and that , therefore , there is no justification for creating a new class of privileged documents which would be the effect of extending the class in respect of which Neilson v. Laugharne [ 1981 ] Q.B . |
| 23 | If all that we can rely on are certain similarities between perceptions and ideas , then surely there is no justification for assuming that existents can be unequivocally differentiated solo numero . |
| 24 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 25 | There is no justification for paying a salary otherwise . |
| 26 | From a reductivist standpoint , certainly , there is no justification for keeping these two senses strictly apart . |
| 27 | Though I believe that Darwin laid too much stress on biotic interactions as a promoter of evolution and extinction , to the extent of substantially dismissing changes in the physical environment , there is no justification for going to the other extreme , as several examples will illustrate . |
| 28 | He says there is no justification for doing so . |
| 29 | There is no charge for using the Scheme . |
| 30 | Unlike the Financial Times , there is no charge for marketing an opportunity on the ABN . |