Example sentences of "is no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members working on behalf of a prisoner learn a lot about that country — its culture and political allegiance for example — knowledge that is no longer useful when the case is closed . |
| 2 | There are many galleries through the world , and it is no longer so difficult for an artist to show work independently . |
| 3 | But there is no doing so unless we accept that the literal writer has an imagination . |
| 4 | The point about the big glass , he wrote , is that there is no right way up and so there is no upside down . |
| 5 | Perhaps in art today there is no longer a place for middles , he wrote . |
| 6 | We are never ‘ not quite up to it ’ , because there is no ‘ it ’ to be quite up to . |
| 7 | Like potatoes and bread , pasta is no longer regarded as fattening . |
| 8 | ‘ He is no longer your father and you are no longer his daughter . |
| 9 | However , as soon as it begins to accelerate smoothly , that movement is no longer necessary , and the control should be moved to get the glider balanced nicely on to the main wheel . |
| 10 | All too often the pilot has a plan in his mind and sticks to it even when it should have become obvious that the situation has changed and his plan is no longer feasible . |
| 11 | After a little more flying experience , beginners ' eyes interpret what is happening to the aircraft and the alarm signal is no longer sent on to the brain . |
| 12 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 13 | It demands insight into the necessity of growing old , and the courage to renounce what is no longer compatible with it . |
| 14 | Such awareness provided another means for the obsessive anxieties of the establishment to be counterbalanced from within , and as Jacobi ( 1967 : 22 ) suggests , created the potential ability to look truths in the eye and ‘ the courage to renounce what is no longer compatible ’ . |
| 15 | Notice that the opponent is no longer facing you directly |
| 16 | We are deep into it now , and there is no avoiding it . |
| 17 | The incense-burner of old Israel , the besamin , is no longer ; the violent fury of man against the Chosen People has done its work and eliminated many of the ceremonies and practices . |
| 18 | However , if the rattle slips down so far that it is no longer visible , the infant will at once lose interest and behave as if the rattle had also slipped out of existence . |
| 19 | The routine then becomes very specific and is no longer a general fitness method of training . |
| 20 | But his choreography is no longer like that of earlier demi-caractère styles such as that of the Chinese dance in The Nutcracker . |
| 21 | It is no longer the case that the romantic style means dancing classically from the feet to the waist and above that allowing the body , arms and head to express themselves to describe the moods , emotions and actions of the characters . |
| 22 | The authors of the report , John Spicer and Philip Morrisey , say the result is that customers perceive beer prices as rising continuously , Beer is no longer considered good value for money . |
| 23 | The surface of ceramic wall tiles is no longer always highly glazed , as it traditionally was . |
| 24 | At one time , painting the inside of cold water cisterns with bituminous paint was the answer when it had corroded , but this is no longer recommended . |
| 25 | This is how there is no getting at Stavrogin , and how getting to know him proceeds . |
| 26 | And the sense in which there is no arriving in The Possessed is very like that in which there is no reading tomorrow 's newspaper . |
| 27 | From this post-Saussurean perspective it is clear that the theory of literature as expressive realism is no longer tenable … . |
| 28 | Among the resolutions are these : ‘ The theorist is no longer a servant of the literary critic . |
| 29 | The other , which is no longer turned toward the origin , affirms play and tries to pass beyond man and humanism … |
| 30 | In fact , there is no longer any reason to call it English verse , and there is no present reason to think of England at all . |