Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] was no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advertisements for Harvard dealers pointed out demurely that remuneration was no obstacle for the right person . |
| 2 | He said that money was no object — those were his actual words — and he wanted the most expensive teeth I could provide . |
| 3 | The Old Testament laws endeavoured to ensure that punishment was no greater than the offence , and in any case was less than private retribution . |
| 4 | He was firm in saying that devaluation was no solution but imprecise as to what further action he might take to prevent it . |
| 5 | Mr. Barnes ' affidavit showed no more than that the Bank might exercise their own supervisory function once they had the result of the Federal Reserve Board inquiry in their hands , so that supervision was no more than a secondary purpose which did not qualify . |
| 6 | She found Clelia 's company extraordinarily entertaining , and bracing only in so far as she liked to be braced : she could hardly follow a word , for instance , of the art references in her conversation , but Clelia managed somehow to combine a great air of erudition and abstruseness with a marked facility for making explanations , so that ignorance was no bar to amusement . |
| 7 | Someone — I think it was Klemperer — said that conducting was no more and no less than the ‘ power of suggestion ’ . |
| 8 | Other Norwegians argued that whaling was no more cruel than any other forms of hunting indulged in by anti-whaling nations , including fox- or deer-hunting , and claimed that explosive grenades fired by the harpoon guns ensured that the whale died instantly . |
| 9 | In contrast , a large clinic-based survey failed to show similar findings and the authors felt that hypertension was no more common in diabetics than non-diabetics ( Keen et al , 1975 ) . |
| 10 | Even allowing for the probability that Time was no non-stop streamliner , faring ever forward at the same speed every day of creation , some fresh interruption of Nature must have occurred to explain its present serpentine course . |
| 11 | She flitted from country to country as if money was no object , which , knowing Lori , it probably was n't . |
| 12 | No , but I know that you 're dying to have a computer , and if money was no object , then we probably would n't hesitate in lending it to you , but really and truly at this moment things are tight and we ca n't afford to commit ourselves with things unless it 's absolutely necessary . |
| 13 | No , but I know that you 're dying to have a computer , and if money was no object , then we probably would n't hesitate in lending it to you , but really and truly at this moment things are tight and we ca n't afford to commit ourselves with things unless it 's absolutely necessary . |
| 14 | By 1939 there were two million private cars and taxation was no more than 10 per cent for a man on £500 a year . |
| 15 | And Ten-huc was no doubt hatching his own plots . |
| 16 | Furthermore , Jacques 's keen interest in the transverse flute as a performer , teacher and composer was no doubt inspired by his father 's example . |
| 17 | The things I said may have been unjustified , and the fact that I just happened to be bloody tired and bad-tempered was no excuse . |
| 18 | Cuba continued its economic progress , was among the top three countries in Latin America , and corruption was no worse than in many developing countries . |
| 19 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 20 | But Hurley was no fool . |
| 21 | But sin was no new problem . |
| 22 | Whilst training was no guarantee that losses would not occur it might help to identify health disorders at a stage early enough to allow successful treatment . |
| 23 | When civilization was no better than barbarism , the whole experiment of humanity was at an end , and it was time to clean the slate . |