Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Circulation size was no clue to survival . |
| 6 | As with the morning papers , circulation size was no clue to profitability . |
| 7 | My cataract operation was no trouble to me , and a great success , so I am happy about that . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Our first view of The Castle Hotel in Taunton town centre was no less impressive . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Vietminh record was no worse than that of the French . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | With the original Allison engine — long since removed , the replacement powerplant was no more than adequate . |
| 19 | The theatre experiment was no more than that — an experiment . |
| 20 | True , but the 1964 road car was no sluggard . |
| 21 | The journey home was no problem — she slept the whole way . |
| 22 | Some of this freehold land was no doubt held in small parcels but in the absence of a survey and map its full extent can not be known . |
| 23 | Er the judge who said an eight year old sex victim was no angel , you remember the one of course , yesterday freed two men who had intercourse with a thirteen year old . |
| 24 | On the seminary hill was no more mast . |
| 25 | The lack of fish remains and the presence of bones of domestic animals suggests that food supply was no problem . |
| 26 | For one thing language was no problem . |
| 27 | One further Iraqi aim in continuing the land battle was no doubt to begin negotiations for a settlement from a position of maximum advantage . |
| 28 | In this study , long term maintenance treatment with delayed release mesalazine was no more nephrotoxic than continued treatment with sulphasalazine . |
| 29 | Within the current therapeutic dose range there is no evidence to suggest dose dependent nephrotoxicity and in the present study long term maintenance treatment with delayed release mesalazine was no more nephrotoxic than continued treatment with sulphasalazine . |
| 30 | Robert 's mum , a hospital staff nurse , said : ‘ Robert must have been an emergency because he had a vocabulary of four words at the age of three and speech therapy was no good to him because he could n't hear what they were trying to teach him . |