Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun sg] was no " in BNC.
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| 1 | The persistence and weight of this criticism was no doubt one of the pressures that led the Auditing Practices Board to place ‘ going concern ’ high on its list of priorities , and in May 1992 an exposure draft proposing new auditing standards in this area was issued . |
| 2 | Liberating society from this legacy was no easy matter , because not only officials but wide strata of the population thought this Stalinist model was in fact the very epitome of socialism . |
| 3 | and what he 'd done to this pillow was no one 's business . |
| 4 | The general lack of interest in antibiosis at this time was no doubt discouraging , but it did not prevent his former pupil Dubos from bringing tyrothricin to clinical trial . |
| 5 | None the less , some statements by members of the Association reveal that the effacement required by this procedure was no more than a tactical ploy , since one of the dominant assumptions of moral education was " that morality was to be made a conscious aim of the teacher , but concealed from the pupils , who were to imbibe the influence from literature as habit or experience " . |