Example sentences of "no [noun sg] that [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no way of explaining this , no parallel that he could reach for other than to say : that he 'd once made a wish , and the wish now appeared to have come true . |
| 2 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 3 | There was no question that he could have gone into some major productions and worked with some of the more notable directors ; he refused point blank , especially after seeing On a Clear Day . |
| 4 | Food-rationing details were announced , surprising nobody , and radio censorship made no difference that anyone could discern . |
| 5 | Her lips moved , but she made no sound that he could hear . |
| 6 | There is no evidence that they could have anticipated that the son would intercept the letters under cover of which the legal charge and other documents were forwarded . |
| 7 | I felt that there was no chance that he could sustain his position . |
| 8 | No movement that he could see , with or without the aid of the binoculars — but then he did n't really know what he was looking for , whilst Windeler had seemed far more assured . |
| 9 | He gave no thought that someone could die , |
| 10 | ( 3 ) Subject to the following subsections , a person ( here referred to as ‘ the defendant ’ ) is answerable to the child if he was liable in tort to the parent or would , if sued in due time , have been so ; and it is no answer that there could not have been such liability because the parent suffered no actionable injury , if there was a breach of legal duty which , accompanied by injury , would have given rise to the liability . … |
| 11 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 12 | One day I was browsing in the university library , when for no reason that I could pick upon I drew a biography of Newton from one of the shelves . |
| 13 | ‘ There was no reason that I could think of to tell you , and some reason not to . ’ |
| 14 | I often sleep in my coat , ’ he backed away from her , all the way towards the door ; then on the landing , and for no reason that he could give to himself , he turned and ran not towards his bedroom but across the landing , over the gallery , down the stairs , through the hall to the front door . |
| 15 | For no reason that he could think of , the image of Nubenehem 's customer , the furtive man in the brothel , came back to him . |
| 16 | ‘ How strange , ’ thought Mildred , ‘ I had no idea that I could jump like that ! ’ |
| 17 | Its continued presence always surprised him since it served no purpose that he could see except symbolically to cut off the headland and to give travellers pause to consider whether they really wanted to continue . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're quite sure that there is no possibility that they could have met — in some other context ? ’ |
| 19 | They have achieved notable publicity in some areas , such as the issues of deaths occurring in police custody and government economic strategy , but there is no possibility that they could achieve a significance equal to that of the United States congressional committees . |
| 20 | I have no doubt that we could around that figure but the Chief Officer rightly believes and indeed Her Majesty 's Inspector rightly believes that we are operating too much technology most of the time . |
| 21 | H. P. Some people would get a bottle of beer — we 'd had a lot of fellows come out of the army and they were fond of their drink and there 's no doubt that they could get it . |
| 22 | Our school textbooks present a biased , distorted and sometimes explicitly sexist view of the world and there is no doubt that they could be improved . |
| 23 | There was no doubt that he could write well about high society , but the market for that sort of thing was dwindling . |
| 24 | I 'd never met him , but I 'd heard him speak once , and there was no doubt that he could move people . |
| 25 | She still had no doubt that she could succeed in Frizingley . |
| 26 | There was no animal that she could see . |
| 27 | One veteran observer of the New York museum scene summarised the insular society 's predicament : ‘ During the 60s , 70s and 80s when all other institutions realised that there was no way that they could build up an endowment without catering to the masses and without appealing to the federal government , museums went with cap in hand ; they saw this was now the game . |
| 28 | My Lord the plaintiff 's case , as you can appreciate , is that Mr had very clearly , on several occasions in mid October , er requested a way out of this contract there was a way out er under the terms of the contract by service of special notice to complete erm and yet he had been told that there was no way that they could withdraw from the contract . |
| 29 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
| 30 | Our basic problem was that there was no way that we could all sit down with Frank and talk about it . |