Example sentences of "no [adj] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is no pleasant thing to be crossed in love . ’ |
| 2 | In doing so , I offer no rigid model to be used whatever the context . |
| 3 | The living God is no impotent image to be worshipped as man thinks fit . |
| 4 | ( a ) There is usually no real way to be sure that the piece of equipment devised is adequate for the purpose unless of course it is a straight copy of an existing commercial model . |
| 5 | ‘ You see , ’ said Lili , ‘ there 's no real experience to be gained by promiscuity . |
| 6 | There is no real momentum to be drawn from the structure , other than the poor teacher pushing it along . |
| 7 | I have no real right to be here . |
| 8 | The poetry above was no mere dream to be forgotten after the moment of its conception ( or the requirements of an appointment , as some have claimed ! ) . |
| 9 | An interim injunction was granted to the local authority employers by the judge on the ground that it was ‘ improbable ’ that there was ‘ no serious issue to be tried ’ . |
| 10 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 11 | It is recognised that there is no easy response to be made by referring to the independence of Religious Education in Catholic schools . |
| 12 | A person buying or leasing land had no previous right to be there at all , let alone to trade there , and when he takes possession of that land subject to a negative restrictive covenant he gives up no right or freedom which he previously had . |
| 13 | The shocked driver assumed that he had run over and killed someone on the line , but on investigation there was no injured person to be found . |
| 14 | Here , unlike the scientific field , it is no great advantage to be ‘ armed with reason ’ . |
| 15 | Benefits can also accrue from removing NTBs even if there is no comparative advantage to be reaped . |
| 16 | With the back tyre likely to be several inches in the air , there 's no braking power to be gained there . |
| 17 | There is no evident explanation to be found in drifting plates or colliding continents . |
| 18 | Such trust , say the courts , is inherent in an equity but not in a debt security , which is governed by contractual relationships , leaving no fiduciary trust to be broken . |
| 19 | Such a tradition of behaviour ‘ is neither fixed nor finished ; it has no changeless centre to which understanding can anchor itself ; there is no sovereign purpose to be perceived or invariable direction to be detected ; there is no model to be copied , idea to be realised , or rule to be followed ’ . |
| 20 | If we ask in this type of case why businesses expanded , there may sometimes by no systematic explanation to be given . |
| 21 | In terms of incentives , then , there is no general case to be made for or against one or other types of tax system . |
| 22 | It 's been no small thing to be simple . |
| 23 | It is no small thing to be able to leave your belongings unguarded and your doors unlocked , as you still can in the country areas of Greece ( Davies 1982 : 85 ) . |
| 24 | The customers were all men , heavily robed , standing in groups or leaning on the counter with no apparent desire to be served . |
| 25 | Unschooled children , if the evidence does demonstrate that they are being less explicit , may in fact be taking it for granted that the questioner can see what is being referred to so that there is no apparent need to be explicit . |
| 26 | The other man was in no particular rush to be anywhere , being newly-divorced and having been thrust back into bedsit-land alone and at the age of forty-two , but out of a range of possibilities the prospect of hanging around on a station platform with Joe Lucas had to rank among the lowest . |
| 27 | There is usually no particular advantage to be gained from allowing delay to occur . |
| 28 | Additionally , as the stallions had n't seen or heard the other behaving like a stallion — calling and courting mares , and threatening rivals — they had no particular reason to be suspicious of their travelling companion . |
| 29 | To me , it 's no big feat to be good in a movie , but it 's a great feat to be good onstage . |
| 30 | The law of passing-off is particularly useful if there is no registered mark to be infringed ; perhaps a trader or manufacturer has used a mark for several years without registering it as a trade mark . |