Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [conj] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if we were to accept that no legislator should vote for the compromise , this would not explain why we should reject the compromise as an out-come . |
| 2 | Late test flights were conducted with strands of cotton between the control arm and the frame , the idea being to demonstrate that no control movement was necessary during flight . |
| 3 | It is to stress than no piece of research , no matter how expensive or extensive , stands alone but becomes part of a corpus that is argued over , debated , used , criticised , ignored , reviewed , assessed , discarded , used as the basis for further research , and more . |
| 4 | But this is to forget that no lower preference can become effective unless all higher preferences have become ineffective . |
| 5 | Whatever style of planning management is used , the overriding need for understanding the business is to ensure that no important issues are neglected . |
| 6 | The aim is to ensure that no patient is sent home to a situation where he might be at risk . |
| 7 | The aim of all these procedures is to ensure that no patient arrives home without the drugs or equipment needed or is left without adequate care and support . |
| 8 | The quality and accessibility of materials have to be high if this approach is to succeed and no organisational barriers are placed in the way of learning . |
| 9 | Not that this is to say that no industry should be owned by the State , not even when , for example , a service to be provided is a natural monopoly ; and the presumption is , therefore , that those who provide it should be accountable to users who can not register dissatisfaction by taking their custom elsewhere , rather than to private owners whose interest is to exploit the monopoly . |
| 10 | In logical terms this is to say that no intersection exists between all constraint fields . |
| 11 | When the parties returned , it was to report that no more men had been found and that there was no way out . |
| 12 | Worse was to come when no less a person than Khomeini called for their execution should the deed prove to be deliberate . |
| 13 | His whole approach to African problems rested indeed on the assumption that there were large reserves of political sagacity within the imperial service , and his aim was to ensure that no situation developed which was beyond the reach of that sagacity . |
| 14 | The aim was to ensure that no one brewer controlled more than 40 per cent of the on-licences and 33 per cent of the off-licences in any area . |
| 15 | Britain and the Soviet Union would want bases in Japan if the United States possessed them and the only wise policy was to ensure that no power had bases on Japanese soil |
| 16 | One of the aims of the Government 's 1988 benefit reforms was to ensure that no working families were faced with a marginal tax rate of over 100 per cent . |
| 17 | But Cnut was considerably more fortunate in the sources produced within 150 years of his death , for the explosion of literary activity which began shortly after the Norman Conquest , and which was to ensure that no future reign would be as badly documented as those of Cnut and his sons , also cast its light back to his period . |
| 18 | for Moore , to say that an act was right was to say that no alternative action would produce better consequences , while to say that it was ‘ a duty ’ or ‘ obligatory ’ was to say that it would produce the best consequences possible . |