Example sentences of "and it be no [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're open , right up to the timbers of the roof and it 's no end of a job trying to keep the place clean . |
| 2 | when you 're talking about taking drugs and it 's been shown that the effects erm the biological dependency is n't that great and it 's no sort of worse than coming off erm , having a bad cold |
| 3 | And it is no defence of restrictive trade to argue , in effect , that it taxes the Top-40 masses to satisfy the cravings of a few sophisticates . |
| 4 | All this is , of course , true for others beside old people , and it is no part of the argument to categorise old people so separately as to further stigmatise them . |
| 5 | If you want me to identify a fish , remember that a photo , or a drawing , is usually better than a description — and it is no end of help if you give me a clue as to where the fish comes from , even if it 's only the continent . |
| 6 | It would be perverse , then , to deny that very exciting things have been happening and it is no business of this chapter to disparage these remarkable advances in understanding of the brain . |
| 7 | But there had never been any attempt to align other CSE grades to O level grades and it was no part of the assumptions of the dual system that someone who failed O level ( below grade E ) was of ‘ average ’ ability ( CSE grade 4 ) . |
| 8 | The Exchequer was not really designed to provide the King with a store of liquid cash and it was no part of its role to expand existing sources of revenue , invent new ones , or curb royal expenditure . |
| 9 | Ethel had said something quite else , but Ma had turned on her , and said she was lucky to be healthy , and it was no fault of Lily 's these ideas had overcome her . |
| 10 | On the one occasion when I made a direct appeal to her , in connection with the battle against the closed shop for journalists which I describe later , her response was gratifyingly supportive and it was no fault of hers that she was unable to persuade Lord Hailsham to a course of action that might well have altered journalistic history . |
| 11 | I took it he knew what he was about , and it was no business of ours to be curious about the abbey 's affairs . ’ |