Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] was no " in BNC.
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| 1 | The later success of The Wedding Present was no surprise because Gedge 's belief in himself made it inevitable , rather than just a possibility . |
| 2 | The proposed rent rise was no bigger than those of other local district councils , he said . |
| 3 | Two hundred and six patients in all were enrolled , and 159 patients were included in the analysis , according to protocol , sufficient to show that fluticasone propionate was no more than 18% inferior to prednisolone . |
| 4 | Leeds began as if their miserable Anfield record was no more than a myth and Liverpool had the indignity of being pinned in their penalty area in front of an affronted Kop . |
| 5 | Far from supporting the needs of so-called higher education Project 2000 students and those on other pre- and post-registration courses , the college library was no different in size and scope to traditional nursing school libraries up and down the country . |
| 6 | Circulation size was no clue to survival . |
| 7 | As with the morning papers , circulation size was no clue to profitability . |
| 8 | Sean Connery , George Lazenby , Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton stood around Paxton as he searched through the drawers of M 's desk , but the James Bond tableau was no help to him either . |
| 9 | Dummy corpses dangle aloft , to remind us that Tyburn Tree was no joke ; but Caird and his cast also do justice to the element of pure burlesque , to Gay 's elegance and panache , to the swing and snap of the dialogue . |
| 10 | My cataract operation was no trouble to me , and a great success , so I am happy about that . |
| 11 | The presence of an independent standing group to advise the Home Secretary was no novelty since an Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders had been set up by Herbert Morrison as early as 1944 as part of the plans for post-war re-construction . |
| 12 | The June issue of Tennis World was no exception , with letters and articles giving both sides of the picture being published ; the only problem is that , in their own way , they are probably both right . |
| 13 | In addition to finding that many Boroughs actually made a profit from council house rents , and thus subsidized ratepayers , they found that the highest transfer from rates to council housing was no less than 443 per cent above average . |
| 14 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 15 | Suffice it to say that the desert landscape was no doubt encouraged by his enthusiasm in 1922 and 1923 for the work of an author whom he placed with James and Conrad — C. M. Doughty , whose ‘ great work Travels in Arabia Deserta ’ he recommended , mentioning also that a good essay on Doughty 's prose , including quotations from it , was contained in Middleton Murry 's recent book Countries of the Mind . |
| 16 | ‘ Practically all fibre production in Europe fell into very significant loss about 1980 and ICI business was no exception ; we went into heavy and traumatic loss , ’ said Coleman who was then part of the Fibres production management team . |
| 17 | The second Fleet Street sensation was no laughing matter . |
| 18 | In 1627 Schütz composed Martin Opitz 's German adaptation of Rinuccini 's old Dafne libretto ( see p. 271 ) for the wedding of a Saxon princess at Hartenfels , near Torgau , but the Thirty Years War was no time for the birth of German opera and Schütz 's score is lost . |
| 19 | Our first view of The Castle Hotel in Taunton town centre was no less impressive . |
| 20 | For many groups , public-pressure group activity was no sign of their power , but it was a testament to the frustrated powerlessness of those who could not get the ear of government , still less their positive action — no matter what they did or did not do . |
| 21 | Sir Ralph Darling was no sooner in post than he turned his attention to John Piper and an official enquiry was set up to investigate the customs accounts . |
| 22 | The night shift was no trouble to me if Nigel was at home , but he was just as likely to be thousands of miles away , doing something with lighthouses . |
| 23 | The Vietminh record was no worse than that of the French . |
| 24 | The German totally overwhelmed America 's Michael Chang , 6-2 , 6-3 , 6-2 , in the final to take the first prize of $2m — but , more importantly for him , instil renewed self-confidence that the Wimbledon triumph was no fluke . |
| 25 | Hinde House was no exception and the outgoing governing body wished to recommend co-opted governors who would have a commitment to and involvement with the school . |
| 26 | With the original Allison engine — long since removed , the replacement powerplant was no more than adequate . |
| 27 | Another Lioniser then proposed a toast to the memory of Mr John Chipperfield , who had died this very week , one of the last known models for a Charles Dickens character : ‘ Lamps ’ of Mugby Junction was no more . |
| 28 | Bridhe realised that Hector was quite right ; the Campbell lassie was no fool . |
| 29 | Chief executive Arno Bohn told me that securing skilled labour for its Stuttgart plant was no problem . |
| 30 | The theatre experiment was no more than that — an experiment . |