Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South African government has been under no obligation to submit reports to the ILO . |
| 2 | This has been through no fault of local authorities , according to Noel Towe of the Local Government Drugs Forum . |
| 3 | Conversely , psychology itself has been in no shape to deliver the goods it promised : if educationists were atheoretical , psychologists for their part were producing theories which were too crude to be of much use to educational researchers . |
| 4 | ( 3.1 ) unc The order in which the expression/variable pairs appear is of no consequence . |
| 5 | His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals . |
| 6 | How could freedom of expression be put at risk merely by the Government 's saying to any one individual ( the Second Vice-President was here referring to foreign capitalist press owners ) that ‘ what you have said is of no relevance in this country and will stir up trouble and mar the peace ’ ? |
| 7 | He made a sweeping movement with his hand , as if what she 'd said was of no interest . |
| 8 | The second bankruptcy proceedings brought against him , in I906 , were instituted by a man named Scott , claimed by Wilson to be a Shipping Federation official , He was again saved by his parliamentary friends and trade union allies in an indemnity committee which found that the debts which were alleged were in no way personal . |
| 9 | Those to whom time is of no object ( and given this countryside , it ought not to be ) might take the road to the right on reaching Neu St Johann . |
| 10 | A hospital dealing with the mentally handicapped is by no stretch of the imagination a candidate for the market mechanism . |
| 11 | ‘ an accused man having been cautioned is under no obligation to say anything . |
| 12 | Of those it is worth singling out D. 32.95 and D. 33.2.34.1 , in which the jurist indicates ( in the first case implicitly , in the second explicitly ) that the use of the clause has turned out to have crucial consequences for the effectiveness of the testator 's will : for without it his will or some of its dispositions would have been of no force . |
| 13 | Or , if prototype wingflaps worked to break the animal 's fall , you can not say " Below a certain size the flaps would have been of no use at all " . |
| 14 | Despite the volume of sheer hard physical slog there must have been with no vacuum cleaners , washing machines , electric mixers or all the other electronic gadgetry which have eased the burden of housework considerably Eva has no recollection of her mother getting uptight or tense . |
| 15 | Nizan could have been under no illusions as to the fate of those who were perceived as traitors to the party . |
| 16 | In the present case the jury could have been in no doubt where the burden of proof lay . |
| 17 | Minor aircraft snags encountered were of no concern as these would be rectified by the previously-noted maintenance crews under the command of S/L Hughes who were scheduled to sail with the vessel . |
| 18 | If Mace means what is ordinarily meant by ‘ my body as it appears to me ’ then the distinction he draws is of no use to us . |
| 19 | Anything else the guard may have remembered is of no value for he was killed in the crash . |
| 20 | But with an annual loss of more than £900,000 and debts of £2m United were in no position to bargain . |
| 21 | A ‘ god ’ which mankind can worship is in no way identical to that power which created the universe , if indeed it were created at all within humanity 's understanding of that word . |
| 22 | Thus , the administration referred to is not of a governmental nature and the other legislation to which I was referred is of no assistance . |
| 23 | Whether any of these works would not have been produced under a ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ regime is debatable , but what is not debatable is that being convicted and imprisoned does not necessarily mean that one has actually committed an offence nor that what that person produces is of no value to society . |
| 24 | My Bible instruction to the lad had been of no avail . |
| 25 | As she grew up , her father had been of no account to her . |
| 26 | ‘ If my memory serves me correct , it was you who declared that it had been of no consequence and to wipe it out , ’ he said , the adoring fiancé replaced by an aloof accuser . |
| 27 | There were entire countries , reigns , religions , philosophical systems , centuries , species and schools of art contained in its files , which had been of no interest whatsoever to the human race since it emptied its records , museums and libraries into their Al dump bin . |
| 28 | When Andy Mutch scored a deserved equaliser for Wolves five minutes from time , it seemed that Ipswich manager John Lyall 's pep talk at the interval had been to no avail . |
| 29 | All our efforts had been to no avail . |
| 30 | This reticence extended even to the making of protests which was why , despite his feeble objections — he had been under no compulsion to go — he had been dragooned into the Navy in the first place . |