Example sentences of "it be no [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 " It 's no time for niceties of etiquette when there are lives at stake , Willoughby .
2 Once a hop 's lost its ‘ rub ’ then it 's no use for brewing — it must have an oily stickiness . ’
3 Mhm , frozen , and you 've , by the time you 've thawed it in forty eight hours , it 's no use for Christmas time , that 's
4 Tariq Ali contributes a feature to the paper , in which he asks ‘ could it happen here ? ’ and concludes ‘ the situation is not the same … but it is no time for complacency in Britain . ’
5 It is no place for PROs to go snooping around collecting information to put out in a defensive public statement before its true significance can be established .
6 With the economy in the doldrums and the Pound struggling to keep its head above water , it was no time for Terry to splash out a couple of hundred quid beside the seaside .
7 It was no time for niceties .
8 It was no place for Cedric .
9 When we followed her into the bedroom she ordered us out , saying it was no place for kids .
10 The judge at that hearing , Mr Justice Chadwick , said it was no answer for Mr Maxwell to say he signed the forms in reliance on the signature of his brother Kevin .
11 I cried — a bit of an exaggeration , but it was no moment for exactitudes , ‘ And now I 've got only one kidney .
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