Example sentences of "[is] no [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Im saying is with the midfield and full backs we have there s no need to be under much pressure . |
| 2 | If the mood is one of resigned acceptance , that the situation represents one 's life difficulties , that there is no help to be obtained in dealing with the matter , should we consider that such a person has a problem ? |
| 3 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is no case to be made for taxpayers ' money being used to prop up Boris Yeltsin , who will turn out to be the David Owen of Russia ? |
| 4 | Similarly arable farmer is no doubt to be explained historically as derived from the term arable farm ( in which we see an ascriptive adjective ) by means of an agentive suffix . |
| 5 | There is no way to be persuasive through someone else . |
| 6 | Here is no imperfection to be suggested . |
| 7 | There are some who think that there is no fun to be found in local government finance , but they can be proved wrong by this debate . |
| 8 | This method of commentary addition works quite satisfactorily provided that there is no music to be mixed in as well . |
| 9 | There is no advantage to be gained by Opposition Members seeking to defend the indefensible . |
| 10 | There is no prestige to be gained from simply repeating someone else 's experiment ; you are very unlikely to get a grant to do it , and the main scientific journals are not normally interested in publishing ‘ replications ’ of experiments unless they are on a particularly controversial topic . |
| 11 | But , despite throwing the machine round some corners behind the Old Kent Road , there is no chirp to be heard . |
| 12 | A range of options for recording achievement may be adopted whenever there is no purpose to be served by deriving a single total score from the items on the test , or where it is not necessary to rank the examinees in order of merit . |
| 13 | We are impetuous by nature and get frustrated if there is no battle to be won , particularly in midfield , ’ he said . |
| 14 | It is one of those cases in which there is no neutrality to be had , because neutrality needs as much justification as any other position . |
| 15 | There is no profit to be made there , Guillamon , not any more . |
| 16 | The buxom Mlle Gilles is called upon every 10 minutes to reveal her all ( or three-quarters of it ) and while this is no sight to be despised , she could have appeared stark-naked from beginning to end and still failed to distract our attention from the movie 's essential mediocrity . ’ |
| 17 | If there really is no choice then there is no decision to be made , so it is only a waste of time to pretend that there is . |
| 18 | There is no reason to be sitting in bed , but I never thought I 'd be on the go so quickly . |
| 19 | There is no reason to be fatalistic . |
| 20 | However , given the relatively short time the audit regulatory system has been in place , the review says that there is no reason to be greatly concerned . |
| 21 | There is no reason to be superstitious . |
| 22 | There is no reason to be optimistic that elections provide citizens with a real and reliable choice of policies . |
| 23 | Of these , some , including many rodents , survive the winter by hibernation , while the musk ox , like many hoofed animals in harsh climates , loses much of its appetite when there is no food to be had , and survives largely by endurance , living off its body reserves . |
| 24 | Leaning against a fridge groaning with comestibles , your host tells you there is no food to be had . |
| 25 | ‘ London is no place to be in a heatwave , ’ he said . |
| 26 | That there is no meaning to be attached to the members ' actions . |
| 27 | … there is no barrier to be crossed , no mysteriously other kind of being to be met and placated . |
| 28 | Instead the universe has become one-dimensional ; there is no barrier to be crossed , no mysteriously other kind of being to be met and placated . |
| 29 | A person who has a migraine or who has been spinning round and round , may feel as if he is reeling over , although there is no movement to be seen by people watching him . |
| 30 | But there is no room to be complacent , says director |