Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [prep] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was decided , first , that in actions brought by the Crown to enforce or protect its proprietary or contractual rights , it should be in no different position from the ordinary citizen and so should be required to give an undertaking in the usual way . |
| 2 | I hope the discussion has this value : it addresses the question of intervention to further social objectives within the system of commodity-producing enterprises and , rather than positing nationalisation as panacea ( a theme with a pronounced minority appeal ) , it identifies certain cases in which nationalisation could be argued as necessary to further social objectives as well as cases in which nationalisation might be of no obvious advantage . |
| 3 | And she would have to buy food now for the boy for the next forty-odd hours , since she 'd be in no fit state to do so after . |
| 4 | After all , the facilities are basically the same regardless of the price and the additional features may be of no real use at all . |
| 5 | And an artfully crafted series of graphical devices , dotted across a corporate review , may be of no informational consequence just ‘ designer confetti ’ . ’ |
| 6 | It would be of no great help to pronounce the body of an object genuine if the interest , and hence the value , lay in the inscription . |
| 7 | These are not the kind of facts which can be found in the history books ; they are small matters which would be of no real importance except to the people concerned . |
| 8 | A co-operative may have more difficulty in raising a large initial sum of venture capital and hence be at a greater risk of starting with too big a burden of interest on loan capital ; but , having got started on a sound financial footing , it would be under no special difficulty in doing as well as ordinary firms . |
| 9 | The Clinton camp had promised the Election Watch '92 party would be like no political rally ever seen and it lived up to its billing . |
| 10 | If the Buyer fails to comply with this clause the Seller shall be under no legal liability in respect of any alleged shortage , defect or complaint . |
| 11 | In good market conditions , however , auction or tender will be more likely to provide the best price for the client , but because the land has been widely advertised the purchaser will be under no moral or other obligation to re-instruct the agent . |
| 12 | It sees no antithesis between the liberal and the technical and contends for the wider acceptance of the truth that the latter will be of no lasting value to the community unless the people of this country are adequately equipped to participate actively in its government and culture . |
| 13 | As it stands , this claim will be of no explanatory interest if the relevant descriptions of events are trivial in the light of our projects and concerns , and a persuasive conception of determinism must therefore include some method of selecting from among the multifarious possible descriptions of events those that are considered to be significant . |