Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] was no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macari 's story was no less dramatic . |
| 2 | The current discussion of Vologsky 's ambition was no exception . |
| 3 | Laura 's card was no doubt in her handbag . |
| 4 | William Charles 's sponsor was no less a gentleman than ‘ Robert Peckham Esquire this City 's Justice for the Borough of Southwark ’ , who was allowed to present three men to the said honour . |
| 5 | Futre 's mood was no better after a £5million transfer from Atletico Madrid to Benfica , though he was recalled to the team who lost to Italy . |
| 6 | Dressed in silk and ablaze with jewellery , apparently to prove that Donna 's inheritance was no myth , Mavis Bricknell stumbled off towards the toilet room at the dome car 's entrance saying she must repair the ravages to her face , and presently she came back , screaming loudly . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , Doane 's conclusion was no less pessimistic than Mulvey 's as to the radical potential of this gaze , since she argued that the film narrative in these cases effectively forced the female spectator into a masochistic identification with the female protagonist . |
| 8 | The Prince 's behaviour was no reflection on Diana or their children . |
| 9 | The Communist Party 's behaviour was no sudden aberration . |
| 10 | Little Billy could see this clearly despite the fact that the whole of the tiny man 's head was no larger than a pea . |
| 11 | His work was swiftly taken up in Germany , where it had close relations with that of Weber and Kohlrausch ; and it was there that H. R. Hertz , for whom Maxwell 's theory was no more than Maxwell 's equations , demonstrated the existence of electrical or radio waves in accordance with the equations . |
| 12 | Matthew 's father was no match for Sarah . |
| 13 | Uncle replied that Jacob 's choice was no good for him . |
| 14 | The value and quality of Ken 's performance was no secret . |
| 15 | The force , the weight and heat of Fenna 's will was no small thing , and Maggie had never before tried to resist it . |
| 16 | Kemp 's voice was no less clear than during the phone conversation . |
| 17 | Although Wilhelm 's army was no match for the total power of the Waaagh , Grom 's forces were split up all over the Empire into many small armies . |
| 18 | There will be traditionalists who lament the change , but the company 's founder was no traditionalist . |
| 19 | It would seem fair to conclude that while for the bulk of the population Hitler 's image was no doubt related in an abstract fashion to finding a ‘ solution to the Jewish Question ’ , this was an issue which people either gave little thought to or deliberately turned their minds from , and that , correspondingly , Hitler 's public attacks on the Jews were something absorbed with little deliberation , forming no central part in explaining either the high peaks of his popularity or the collapse of the ‘ Führer myth ’ in the last years of the war . |
| 20 | That may be because people have got so used to killings : after the murder of Lalith Athulathmudali , one of Sri Lanka 's two main opposition leaders , on April 23rd , the assassination of the president who some suspected of involvement in his rival 's killing was no great surprise . |
| 21 | Farr 's doctor was no part of his murderous plan . |
| 22 | But Gavin Johnson 's goal was no fluke . |
| 23 | His brother 's party was no better , in his opinion . |
| 24 | ‘ So Bowyer 's death was no accident ? ’ |
| 25 | Hoomey 's teeth were chattering after his dice with death ; Nails 's house was no warmer indoors that it was out . |
| 26 | Ace 's face was no less expressive . |
| 27 | The language of Alexander 's speech was no more radical than that which Nicholas I had used in 1842 when defending the ineffectual Law on Obligated Peasants . |