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

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1 It 's no help to you now , but you can certainly help .
2 It 's no secret to anyone that our constitutional foundations are contradictory …
3 It 's no bother to me to help …
4 It 's no thanks to you that one of the five stab wounds did not kill your friend Shane Lay there and then .
5 So it 'll be flying round the light so it 's no trouble to you .
6 Like , they do n't know who it is i it 's not , after they 've taken it away it 's no connection to me whatsoever , they do n't where I 'm
7 It 's no good to me . ’
8 It 's no good to me is it ?
9 I 'd like that , but it 's no good to me .
10 What do you say , it 's no good to me ?
11 I said it 's no good to me .
12 Oh it 's no good to me that size .
13 It 's no good to me !
14 It 's no good to them , this land if sold in the on this particular piece of land , they 've sold all the viable access off to the residents of the have n't they ? so there , there 's no right of way really for them to get down there , and it should be cheap .
15 Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built .
16 It 's no good to us .
17 Then you try it out , and decide whether you want to continue to use it — if it 's no good to you , then nothing further needs to be done .
18 Well it 's no good to you .
19 ‘ It ca n't go far , it 's no use to us as it is and we may be able to pick it up some other time . ’
20 His successor as curator , Arthur T. Bolton [ q.v. ] , claimed that ‘ it is no disrespect to his distinguished predecessors in that office to assert that he was the best curator that ever held that position of trust ’ , an opinion that was shared by ( Sir ) John Summerson , who succeeded Bolton .
21 It is no surprise to me when he is caught .
22 It is no surprise to anyone that at a time of severe recession , investment in fixed assets , cars etc , will be weak , ’ said Geoff Evans , managing director of Forward Asset Finance .
23 It is no benefit to us that the work is produced in Edinburgh , because we are not getting it .
24 Surprisingly , he told Theo nothing of this drama until the late autumn , when he wrote that ‘ perhaps you know about it already and it is no news to you ’ .
25 It is no matter to him that he loses his hold over his children and his erstwhile fiancée .
26 Some people even refuse to use this part of the E-6000 programming at all , saying that it is no good to them , because they can not understand how a column of figures can relate to a knitted garment .
27 But there was so much else to see that , as time flew by , it was no surprise to her that , having been thoroughly absorbed , she had forgotten entirely such necessities as eating , until Ven good-humouredly mentioned , ‘ Since I did n't wish to intrude on your pleasure to suggest a coffee-break , will you permit me , at ten past one , to suggest we have a break for lunch ? ’
28 It was no shock to him that he should be marketed in his turn .
29 At second interview however they said it was no problem to them to visit her , and that they now go only once a week , and ‘ do not mind carrying on ’ .
30 And I just ran through them , you know , it was no problem to me .
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