Example sentences of "was no " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no particular shock when I found out ; I had expected the test to be positive . |
| 2 | At the beginning of Surrealism it was argued that there was no Surrealist painting , but this dogma was soon reversed . |
| 3 | She ‘ knew ’ that ‘ she had come to a place at the end of the world ’ , a backwater where there was no action at all . |
| 4 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 5 | The second sentence of the issue of May 1988 refers to the first twenty years of the state : ‘ Threatening to ‘ push the Jews into the sea ’ , the Arab world reformulated the Nazi theory of Lebensraum in Mediterranean terms : there was no room in the region for a Jewish homeland . ’ |
| 6 | There was no point sitting here yapping to a bunch of fucking prejudiced right-wing bastards . |
| 7 | So the accent was no problem and I was the right age . |
| 8 | There appears to have been a general feeling among them that there was no real problem on this score . |
| 9 | The agreement over education was so clear that when the first revolutionary Irish government set itself up in 1918 , prior to negotiated independence , there was no Minister for Education . |
| 10 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 11 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 12 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 13 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 14 | So strong that merely stopping was no solution . |
| 15 | There was no point in going on then . |
| 16 | The colossal error of nineteenth-century anthropologists like Tyler was to imagine that there was no difference . |
| 17 | Vaughan loves to cook , but finds it a punishing way to make a living : ‘ People told me that there was no job harder than nursing , ’ recalls Vaughan , ‘ but they were wrong ! |
| 18 | Watching the cuisinières during the early stages , there was no obvious clue as to why anyone should find it necessary to draw a theoretical distinction between male and female chefs . |
| 19 | Beside her , chair drawn a little back , Miss Abernethie sat , her face rigid with disapproval , though of what precisely there was no telling . |
| 20 | The dog seemed distressed and there was no sign of his master . ’ ’ |
| 21 | Imagine mother 's distress when she discovered there was no such thing ! |
| 22 | Why , even Peggy herself had been one of his targets — until he realized there was no chance for him there . |
| 23 | There was no guilt in his eyes — only grim satisfaction . |
| 24 | You see , whoever put that poisoned cherry on the cake must have got sugar on his hands , but could n't lick them because of the poison , and could n't wash them because there was no water available . |
| 25 | She was no taller than I was and she wore a grey thing that looked like a schoolgirl 's dress . |
| 26 | There was no one there but the family . |
| 27 | ‘ Or if she did it was no further than the grounds . |
| 28 | ‘ They both insist that there was no way in which their hostess could have been poisoned before their very eyes — and both the parlourmaid and the cook swear that she did n't take anything afterwards . |
| 29 | ‘ So there was no need to have anything highly scented or smelling strongly on the table , ’ said Henry at once . |
| 30 | In the bustle of everything , none of us noticed her do it — there was no reason for us to . |