Example sentences of "being no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite what was then described as the worst financial recession for fifty years , the Mallaig train sold out in just nine days , there being no shortage of takers for seats which by now were creeping up towards the £40 mark , and beyond the pockets of the traditional excursion-train traveller . |
| 2 | Something about there being no place like home but he could n't go home in the dark . |
| 3 | Minto and Maureen , accompanied by an Irish friend called Vera Henry and the dog Mr Papwoth , who had recovered his strength before going hence and being no more seen , were to travel by car . |
| 4 | The reason for there being no circuit in Belfast is simple : it 's too small . |
| 5 | One thinks of the religious maniac who gripped one 's hand too firmly , hours earlier , on the Metropolitan Line and asked one , sincerely , to ‘ repent , ’ of the strange fellow who took umbrage at the book one was reading-The Boss ; J. Edgar Hoover And The Great American Inquisition-and accused one , for some unaccountable reason , of being no better than Norman Tebbit . |
| 6 | Again , even though things do appear differently to different people , this is due to differences in the people , not to there being no reality behind the appearances . |
| 7 | Evidently he thinks of the distinction as being no more than a useful device for developing and explaining his claim , that all ideas derive from experience . |
| 8 | The choice of wine he is , wisely , leaving to the club , for its cellar carries the reputation of being no less impressive than its golf course , which is probably the most photographed in the world . |
| 9 | For the next week or so Endill concentrated on finding his new workshop , despite being no further forward with his plan . |
| 10 | In 1886 , a dam was built to improve the water supply to the Brush Factory for previously water was supplied by a leat , there being no mill pond . |
| 11 | Support for this interpretation can be derived from studies of delayed MTS in pigeons , which have found that the magnitude of the DOE diminishes as the length of the delay is reduced , there being no effect when there is no delay ( Brodigan and Peterson 1976 ; Edwards et al . |
| 12 | Being no fools , the clan noticed that of all men there Duart himself seemed least joyful . |
| 13 | Both arguments failed with the Court responding to the first by holding that the existing notification procedures were enough , there being no need for mandatory notification in all cases : |
| 14 | Despite criticisms voiced by the Post Office Engineering Union ( 1980 ) it is still the case that warrants are to be issued under the hand of the Home Secretary rather than a judge , there apparently being no concern that a major invasion of privacy can take place by executive act without the need for any judicial approval or authorization , as is required in other democracies . |
| 15 | Despite there being no fractions in their arithmetic and observational difficulties due to frequent early morning mists and much cloud in the rainy season , they ultimately attained an accuracy in the determination of the synodic period of Venus that was of the order of one day in five thousand years , that is roughly one part in two million . |
| 16 | ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain . |
| 17 | After that , there being no predestination , it is up to the human being concerned to deal with the problems as they arise — successfully or otherwise . |
| 18 | The parent should listen quietly to this opinion , preferably with an open mind , trying to see things from the youngster 's point of view and should restate what she or he understands to be the youngster 's argument , so as to be sure of there being no misunderstanding . |
| 19 | ‘ I must believe in the Apostolic Succession , there being no other way of accounting for the descent of the Bishop of Exeter from Judas Iscariot . ’ |
| 20 | I had hired a moped in Tiree , there being no bicycles left , and like a multicoloured Batman Snoopy in my Mary Quant cape arrived at the Balemartine Baptist church for morning service . |
| 21 | Ullapool was where I was heading there being no boats from Gairloch to Stornoway as in JTR 's day . |
| 22 | Often changes are marked and obvious , there being no doubt as what to do . |
| 23 | Consequently an artificial odorizer in the form of tetrahydrothiophen is added to North sea gas at the off shore terminals to achieve a ‘ distinctive smell ’ similar to the characteristic smell of coal-gas , as required by regulations made under s.26(1) of The Gas Act 1972 — the intention being no doubt to ensure that the majority of members of the public are able to detect a gas leak by its characteristic odour . |
| 24 | ‘ His [ Coleman 's ] House , doubtless was the one originally occupied by Vial , there being no other in the immediate neighbourhood of sufficient size for his family and resident Students . |
| 25 | Last autumn they reported an improved figure , after moving the apparatus to Goesgen , of 1.05 + 0.02 , in other words , a result consistent with there being no oscillations ( CERN Courier , vol 22 , p 371 ) — In its latest work the team has been able to dispense with having to make a comparison with the expected antineutrino spectrum , thereby removing one source of uncertainty . |
| 26 | I should emphasise that this result holds despite there being no interaction between the two separated particles A and B , and no connection between the two instruments required to make the measurements on the two particles . |
| 27 | Archibald Geikie somehow learnt the manual alphabet , and there being no school for the deaf in Edinburgh at that time ( Braidwood 's Academy had moved to Hackney in 1783 ) , undertook the teaching of his son himself . |
| 28 | However , in the event of there being no clear evidence of what the partners intend , certain presumptions will apply . |
| 29 | ‘ I do not agree with the proposition that the only problem in inner cities is poverty and that all that we need to do is to alleviate poverty , there being no need for other policies . |
| 30 | On the day he married Sarah Byrne at St James 's Church in Clerkenwell he was impatient to travel home , there being no reception to mark the occasion . |