Example sentences of "[pron] is no [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As the Islamic calendar has fewer days than the Gregorian and there is no allowance for the imperceptible tilt of our spinning world , their months are twenty-nine or thirty days long , never thirty-one . |
| 6 | On a macroscopic level , the problem is that there is no allowance for diversity of musical practice or song-type . |
| 7 | Shelducks breeding in smaller groups at lower density , or as isolated pairs , where there is no chance for creches to develop , may be the ones producing a surplus of ducks that enter and sustain the quarrelsome colony on the Ythan . |
| 8 | There is no chance for writing , as there are no materials . |
| 9 | One is that any attempt to draw a line between the meaning of a word and ‘ encyclopaedic ’ facts concerning the extra-linguistic referents of the word would be quite arbitrary ; another is that there is no motivation for isolating ‘ pragmatic meaning ’ as a separate domain of lexical meaning . |
| 10 | There is no discrimination for or against any candidate on the basis of sex , ethnic origin , social class , home location or whether they have a medical background . |
| 11 | There is no discrimination for or against any candidate on the basis of sex , ethnic origin , social class , home location or whether they have a veterinary background . |
| 12 | They might regress too far too soon , and there is no follow-up for LRT ‘ graduates ’ . |
| 13 | It would be better in the ordinary case , where the court thinks there should be no contact , to say that there is no order for contact ( post , p. 811E–F ) . |
| 14 | It would be better in the ordinary case , where the justices think there should be no contact , to say there is no order for contact , which , in fact , is what the family proceedings court have done in the present case . |
| 15 | There is no outlet for the thoughts and observations of the non-researching general practitioner . |
| 16 | Though there may be several good reasons why our paper was not accepted ( one being that the editor in question was no longer alive ) , the fact is that there is no outlet for complaints against editorial abuse of power . |
| 17 | If there is no competition for funding then all investments with a positive NPV can be accepted . |
| 18 | If there is no competition for funding then all investments with a positive NpV can be accepted . |
| 19 | There is no problem for an antagonistic critic to find incoherence and inconsistency in a group exhibition . |
| 20 | this is not to say there is no problem for the plaintiff in such a situation , on the contrary the difficulty lies in obtaining sufficient evidence to identify the separate point sources . |
| 21 | Christian revival was appropriately confessional , and there is no problem for the historian here of the secretive heart . |
| 22 | ‘ Our information is that there is no problem for paramilitaries to get new recruits . ’ |
| 23 | On 5 June , Gavin Laird of the Amalgamated Engineering Union rightly said on ’ Channel 4 News ’ : ’ It has never worked in the past ; there is no logic for it ; it does not work in any other country and it certainly will not work in Great Britain . ’ |
| 24 | When calculated the same way there is no tendency for the mean risk rating for a junction to determine correlations with accident estimates , r(8)=-0.047 , nor is there any similar relationship between risk and the response bias measure B , r(8)=-0.21 . |
| 25 | In the wider Europe there is no enthusiasm for a political federation of EC states . |
| 26 | With respect to both agency workers and casual workers the courts have deemed that there is no obligation for the apparent employer ( in the case of the agency worker , the agency ) to offer work and no obligation on the worker to accept offers made . |
| 27 | We are saying that , under the legislation for the trusts , there is no obligation for them to train , despite what the hon. Lady has said . |
| 28 | 2 colour is to be used at Survival level and there is no cost for binding — the sheets will be shrink wrapped — or for stiff covers . |
| 29 | But there is no issue for which simply to deduce from socially prescribed principles combined with factual propositions would be anything but a mechanical conformity ; I know why I should do the prescribed thing only if , at least at my moments of fullest awareness from other viewpoints , I feel moved to do so . |
| 30 | The good impression created by the writing of a first-class release will soon be dissipated if there is no contact for further information , no space for print marks or subbing and no indication that the release has ended and that there are no more continuation sheets . |