Example sentences of "it is no [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If A. be indicted and convicted of felony , but hath neither judgment of death , nor hath prayed his clergy , this is no bar of a new indictment for the same offence , if the first were insufficient … and it seems , though it were sufficient , yet it is no bar without clergy or judgment ; … |
| 2 | Bearwood is built in the Elizabethan style and has a hall with screen , but it is no expression of community ; rather , like other houses of its type , it is a microcosm of Victorian society . |
| 3 | What is a voidable title and how it differs from a void title can best be shown by an example : A owns some goods which he sells to B who in turn sells them to C. If the first contract ( i.e. Between A and B ) is valid then title passes from A to B. If it is void for any reason then it is no contract at all and no ownership passes to B. If it is voidable then it is initially valid but can be avoided ( set aside ) later . |
| 4 | And it is no defence of restrictive trade to argue , in effect , that it taxes the Top-40 masses to satisfy the cravings of a few sophisticates . |
| 5 | Thus it is common ground in the present case that if a manufacturer negligently makes and markets defective goods , for instance a car with defective brakes , or a soothing syrup for babies which is negligently contaminated with corrosive acid , and the defective goods are put on the market and sold to a member of the public , and the predictable accident follows and a young baby is injured , for instance if the baby is a passenger in the car when the brakes fail and the car crashes , or is given the syrup , it is no defence to an action for damages , by or on behalf of the baby , for the manufacturer to prove that the baby was only born after the defective goods had left the manufacturer 's premises or even had passed to the member of the public by purchase from the retailer . |
| 6 | It is no defence for the officer to say he does not know and can not with reasonable diligence find out who the driver was . |
| 7 | An employer is liable for the offence of ‘ using ’ an unlicensed vehicle if the vehicle is driven on his business and it is no defence for the employer to show that he had not authorised the journey if , in fact , the journey was on his business ( Richardson v Baker [ 1976 ] RTR 56 ) . |
| 8 | It is no defence for the director to say that he was absent when the play was performed , unless he can take advantage of the special defence that he did not know , and had no reason to suspect , that the performance would involve the use of the offending words or behaviour . |
| 9 | Remaining silent may allow fish to evade these predators , but it is no defence against sharks and barracudas . |
| 10 | It is no disrespect to Bohm 's achievement to say that his theory is pretty weird all the same . |
| 11 | His successor as curator , Arthur T. Bolton [ q.v. ] , claimed that ‘ it is no disrespect to his distinguished predecessors in that office to assert that he was the best curator that ever held that position of trust ’ , an opinion that was shared by ( Sir ) John Summerson , who succeeded Bolton . |
| 12 | It is no proof of future potential . |
| 13 | It is no help to the sufferer or to a solution of the mind-body problem to propose that mind and body are engaged in battle from which the mind should always emerge as victorious . |
| 14 | It is no denigration of his immense achievement to point to these real difficulties which it raises . |
| 15 | It is no criticism of them to say that I felt a bit of a nuisance . |
| 16 | To ignore , or be ignorant of , these factors is to misuse statistics badly — it is no criticism of the statistics themselves . |
| 17 | It is no criticism of the French , Spanish , Canadian and other contingents that the circumstances in their sectors have not permitted such tactics , but if the Vance-Owen plan is to be implemented we will need to apply the pro-active approach which is being pioneered by the Cheshire Regiment . |
| 18 | It is no condemnation of those people , but that is semi-skilled or unskilled work . |
| 19 | It is suggested that where a woman demonstrates her lack of consent , it is no hardship for a man to enquire whether her consent is present and that as a matter of policy the law should demand that he do so . |
| 20 | As everyone knows who has translated from a foreign language , it is no excuse for a bad translation that the meaning chosen was found in the dictionary ; for the document may be its own dictionary , showing an intention to use words in some special shade of meaning . |
| 21 | ‘ It is no surprise to anyone that at a time of severe recession , investment in fixed assets , cars etc , will be weak , ’ said Geoff Evans , managing director of Forward Asset Finance . |
| 22 | It is no surprise to me when he is caught . |
| 23 | It is no part of this account to repeat the work of these excellent studies . |
| 24 | It is no part of the function of this chapter to dilate at length upon the rules ( so far as they exist ) or the functions of heraldry since its rise in the second quarter of the twelfth century , but a few general remarks will not be out of place . |
| 25 | It is no part of the job of anyone who pretends to convey any area of scholarship to a lay audience to shield that audience from the technical terms , for the basic vocabulary is the chief requirement of initiation . |
| 26 | … it is no part of the government 's intention to inhibit local libraries in their decisions on which books to stock . |
| 27 | All this is , of course , true for others beside old people , and it is no part of the argument to categorise old people so separately as to further stigmatise them . |
| 28 | It is no part of the intention of this survey to write the history of clerical celibacy . |
| 29 | It is no part of the present story . |
| 30 | It is no part of a judge 's function to exercise disciplinary powers over the police or prosecution as respects the way in which evidence to be used at the trial is obtained by them . |