Example sentences of "there [is] no " in BNC.

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1 I was just dithering , trying to see what the new keys were , when I thought ‘ shit , unless I can send it , there s no point me carrying on ’ .
2 ‘ Nay , there 's no knowing how long this lot 's been coming down , nor how deep it is up yonder , ’ protested George .
3 Often sounding like there 's no one driving , Mark 's recipe for recording involves bringing the barest bones of a song into the studio , letting the musicians bend it , stretch it , squash it , cook it and generally rip it to shreds , before setting about trying to sort out the sparks from the farts .
4 " It 's the only place I 'll be , 'cept here , and there 's no one round about these parts who 'd want me . "
5 Otherwise there 's no knowing just how many more he would have killed .
6 This month 's trip was already planned , so there 's no getting out of it .
7 Most important of all , there 's no attempting to push your existing system beyond its designed capacity .
8 There 's no one left in France , you know .
9 The wine had made her talkative , and she said quite naturally , ‘ Oh , there 's no arguing with you .
10 And finally , a family-run clothes shop that 's been open for more than a hundred years is closing down because there 's no one left to look after it .
11 But now , 90 years on , there 's no one left in the Oakes family to run the shop , so it 's to be sold .
12 There 's no one round here big and strong
13 You 'll be , cos there 's no television so there 's no gon na need all these sockets !
14 But there is no doing so unless we accept that the literal writer has an imagination .
15 The point about the big glass , he wrote , is that there is no right way up and so there is no upside down .
16 Perhaps in art today there is no longer a place for middles , he wrote .
17 We are never ‘ not quite up to it ’ , because there is no ‘ it ’ to be quite up to .
18 We are deep into it now , and there is no avoiding it .
19 This is how there is no getting at Stavrogin , and how getting to know him proceeds .
20 And the sense in which there is no arriving in The Possessed is very like that in which there is no reading tomorrow 's newspaper .
21 In fact , there is no longer any reason to call it English verse , and there is no present reason to think of England at all .
22 They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else .
23 The British-based Environmental Investigation Agency says in a brochure , A system of extention , that ‘ the scale of abuse of the responsibilities entrusted to the secretariat of the parties ( CITES 103 member nations ) has become so widespread , and the extensive manipulations to prevent a ban on the ivory trade so obvious and desperate , that there is no longer any doubt about the ivory trade 's grip on major decisions being taken by the secretariat ’ .
24 But there is no mistaking the fact that the First Division door has been left ajar .
25 We do know what Jack 's views were of the Christian and sexual morality : ‘ There is no getting away from it : the Christian rule is ‘ Either marriage , with complete faithfulness to your partner , or else total abstinence . ’
26 There is no denying a basic sense in which this may be true , and yet the last chapter will surely be different .
27 There is no denying a basic sense in which this may be true , and yet the last chapter will surely be different .
28 If all goes well , Beech Road will start at 2-1 or less at Cheltenham as there is no mistaking his superiority .
29 It is about sending a clear signal to the villages of Quang Ninh and Ha Giang and Lang Son that there is no longer a road to Los Angeles by way of Hong Kong or , for that matter , of Thailand or Malaysia .
30 It is about sending a clear signal to the villages of Quang Ninh and Ha Giang and Lang Son that there is no longer a road to Los Angeles by way of Hong Kong or , for that matter , of Thailand or Malaysia .
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