Example sentences of "[pron] [be] no [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm no match for seventeen other people . |
| 2 | ‘ I know I 'm no substitute for either of the Julians , ’ she said at last , her tone carefully diffident , ‘ but if you would like me to come along ? |
| 3 | I 'm no substitute for an absent servant — ’ |
| 4 | I was no match for your proud , muscular strength : after a few yards I was exhausted , and you would take over , shoving the burden along with tireless energy . |
| 5 | Not wishing to be a pansy , I stepped up my pace too , but I was no match for the male legs I was pursuing since both of my spindly little limbs could fit into the right leg of his breeches . |
| 6 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 7 | ‘ However , I have been provided with information which leads me to think she was not entirely an angel herself , which is no excuse for you . |
| 8 | ‘ However , I have been provided with information which leads me to think she was not entirely an angel herself , which is no excuse for you . |
| 9 | She 'd soon be taking a stroll through the harbour district which is no place for any girl at night , especially a girl with what was supposed to be ten thousand dollars in her purse , and an appointment with a killer . |
| 10 | Yet it seems that according to Lord Diplock such reasoning is merely the invention of a fancied ambiguity , which is no reason for denying the ‘ plain ’ meaning of a statute . |
| 11 | Yet , once again , the feeling that she was no match for the forces conspiring , as she felt , against her , was overwhelming . |
| 12 | Despite her record of 25 merchantmen and 2 warships captured or sunk , she was no match for the escort vessels : the cruisers Sydney , Melbourne and Minotaur , and the Japanese battle-cruiser Ibuki . |
| 13 | Unaccustomed to waging this kind of war , she was no match for the other woman 's powers of cattiness . |
| 14 | Though he appeared no longer bent on seduction , nor even aware of her seeming absence , Isabel knew she was no match for his strength . |
| 15 | First , he was on a job , and secondly , he knew without putting into words that she was no girlfriend for an ambitious copper . |
| 16 | We are no match for Walworth Road . |
| 17 | Whilst mechanisms , sometimes of ‘ passing ’ , more often of ‘ coping ’ , are described , we are left with the impression that ‘ shameful difference ’ and its consequences are an immutable fact of social life , for physically impaired people : ‘ it is possible that there are no exemptions for incapacity in such areas as aesthetic norms ’ ( Haber and Smith , 1971 , p. 95 ) . |
| 18 | If equipment or projects must be subsidised from individual pockets , if there are no resources for creche facilities or disabled access it 's difficult to envisage genuinely equal opportunities . |
| 19 | There are no rules for that kind of process . |
| 20 | There are no problems for modern cars and on an open hillside above the treeline , a roadside parking space has been provided where they can foregather and let their occupants feast on a superlative view of the head of Loch Duich and the Five Sisters . |
| 21 | In France , for instance , where there are no incentives for employers to take on part-timers ( in the form of our lower National Insurance contributions and lack of rights and benefits for part-timers ) and far more extensive subsidised childcare facilities and parental leave , far fewer mothers work part time and more are in higher status occupations , according to the Department of Employment 's French And British Women 's Employment Comparisons . |
| 22 | There are no estimates for the wounding rates of mountain goats , but for other game species it may be as high as 40 per cent . |
| 23 | There are no endorsements for him on death row . ’ |
| 24 | The majority will find that there is little knowledge of the needs of the physically disabled community , that there are no policies for meeting such needs and that housing and social services departments are failing to work together to help disabled people achieve the things which most non-disabled citizens take for granted . |
| 25 | ‘ I feel fine and I could ride next week , but there are no horses for me and it 's a bit cold , ’ the 57-year-old said last night . |
| 26 | Chair , there are no apologies for this meeting , that I know of |
| 27 | There are no charges for Switch transactions if your current account remains in credit . |
| 28 | What 's more , there are no charges for currency conversion or handling . |
| 29 | There are no charges for maintaining any of these accounts , but charges will be made for any extra services offered , such as telegraphic transfers , drafts and money orders . |
| 30 | The lion 's share of whatever figure is agreed would go to Poland and Hungary : Czechoslovakia has not , as yet , requested direct aid ( President Vaclav Havel , speaking to Congress , concentrated on the importance of helping the Soviet Union ) ; Romania , so far , gets mainly subsidised food ; there are no plans for helping Bulgaria ; East Germany has West Germany ; Yugoslavia gets almost no direct aid . |