Example sentences of "be no [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And they 're no pendulum clocks there now but they were there when I was there .
2 And I thought they 're no woods forest .
3 But getting fit takes time and commitment and if you 're no spring chicken , you have to take it easy along the way .
4 But getting fit takes time and commitment and if you 're no spring chicken , you have to take it easy along the way .
5 They 're all there 're no X squareds or W squareds or anything else in .
6 Mr Parretti , it seems , has been no Sam Goldwyn .
7 Although , as we have seen , there has been no core curriculum since 1905 , teachers have based their work upon key elements — that young children should be helped towards the mastery of the written and spoken word , and to have sufficient understanding of number .
8 If instead of holding on to the property X had given the property to Y no inheritance tax will be in point provided Y farmed the property ( or X survived the gift by seven years ) but in that case there would have been no capital gains tax uplift on the death of X.
9 There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’
10 5 If again after 5 working days there has been no notificatin issue letter two .
11 There had been no guard rails and the men had had no experience or instructions to carry out the job .
12 I 'd forgone breakfast because I had n't got to bed till four in the morning , lunch because I had a hangover and anyway I was late for the train , and due to the fact that it was — according to British Rail at any rate — still part of the extended Festive Period , there had been no buffet trolley on the train .
13 There has been no gall bladder stone recurrence and function has returned to two of the five , possibly because of spontaneous passage of the cystic duct stone .
14 Indeed , since the Domesday Survey of 1086 there had been no government measure which had produced a record of this .
15 Sir Patrick again insisted that there had been no Government deal with the unionists .
16 There has been no chromosome work in Shetland ( nor investigations of the " teeth " ) , but the shell-shape data strongly suggest a meeting of two factions-in some places the enclaves show the full " normal " range of variation : in others , only a few miles away , they do not .
17 There had been no horror particular to Toulouse to explain that extraordinary fear ; the battle had been less threatening than a half-dozen of the Spanish engagements , yet Sharpe had never forgotten the awful fear , nor his relief when peace had been declared .
18 There have been no Lotus world champions since then but Ayrton Senna ( Bra ) is hoping to join the long list of past champions .
19 ( I should point out that had it not been for my sister Etty , who had financed this latest venture , there would have been no printing business . )
20 There had been no refurbishment programmes here .
21 There have been no January records .
22 Things are already remarkably ripe , even though there have been no air frosts yet .
23 while the cyclists have been putting their feet up there 's been no rest day for other sports … here 's our round-up of the weekend 's winners and losers
24 There 's been no keeping Joanna Trollope away from filming for The Rector 's Wife … most of it 's taken place not far from the author 's home near Cirencester .
25 ( Foreign Minister Sani Bako said on Sept. 3 in a letter to the human rights organization Amnesty International that there had been no summary executions , that seven of those arrested had just been released , and that the organization could send a mission to Niger to observe the situation . )
26 On appeal it was held that there had been no material irregularity in the proceedings .
27 Note , too , that because there was no free oxygen gas , there would have been no ozone layer — because ozone is a form of oxygen .
28 Mr Hillcoat said that there had been no cycling fatalities but in-juries to those under 16 had risen , whereas accidents involving older riders had fallen .
29 They stressed , however , that there had been no radiation leak at the plant , which is of the Chernobyl type .
30 A failure to sell based on inside information is neither illegal in the US nor in the UK because there has been no securities transaction .
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