Example sentences of "be [prep] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool . |
| 2 | Both defendants were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool . |
| 3 | It sees no antithesis between the liberal and the technical and contends for the wider acceptance of the truth that the latter will be of no lasting value to the community unless the people of this country are adequately equipped to participate actively in its government and culture . |
| 4 | These are not the kind of facts which can be found in the history books ; they are small matters which would be of no real importance except to the people concerned . |
| 5 | After all , the facilities are basically the same regardless of the price and the additional features may be of no real use at all . |
| 6 | That the classical doctrine of the trinity has in this manner been departed from may be thought to be of no small consequence . |
| 7 | It would be of no great help to pronounce the body of an object genuine if the interest , and hence the value , lay in the inscription . |
| 8 | That women are of the opposite sex to Christ should then , she believes , be of no great moment . |
| 9 | And an artfully crafted series of graphical devices , dotted across a corporate review , may be of no informational consequence just ‘ designer confetti ’ . ’ |
| 10 | In Egypt , Lords Cromer and Milner , enthroned in marble halls and surrounded by British soldiers , thought of themselves as playing , with the utmost discretion , an exceptionally difficult lone hand ; they delighted in the formal restrictions placed on British power , though everyone in Egypt knew them to be of no practical consequence . |
| 11 | I hope the discussion has this value : it addresses the question of intervention to further social objectives within the system of commodity-producing enterprises and , rather than positing nationalisation as panacea ( a theme with a pronounced minority appeal ) , it identifies certain cases in which nationalisation could be argued as necessary to further social objectives as well as cases in which nationalisation might be of no obvious advantage . |
| 12 | As it stands , this claim will be of no explanatory interest if the relevant descriptions of events are trivial in the light of our projects and concerns , and a persuasive conception of determinism must therefore include some method of selecting from among the multifarious possible descriptions of events those that are considered to be significant . |
| 13 | The Clinton camp had promised the Election Watch '92 party would be like no political rally ever seen and it lived up to its billing . |
| 14 | If the Buyer fails to comply with this clause the Seller shall be under no legal liability in respect of any alleged shortage , defect or complaint . |
| 15 | In good market conditions , however , auction or tender will be more likely to provide the best price for the client , but because the land has been widely advertised the purchaser will be under no moral or other obligation to re-instruct the agent . |
| 16 | Tacit consent was the tactic which Locke used in his Second Treatise to escape from the dilemma of reconciling his basic principle — " The Liberty of Man , in Society , is to be under no other Legislative Power , but that established , by consent , in the Commonwealth … " ( 22 , p. 301 ) — with the desirability of a stable and durable system of government which would not have to be submitted to the people for constant re-endorsement . |
| 17 | A co-operative may have more difficulty in raising a large initial sum of venture capital and hence be at a greater risk of starting with too big a burden of interest on loan capital ; but , having got started on a sound financial footing , it would be under no special difficulty in doing as well as ordinary firms . |
| 18 | According to one source I 've spoken to , when this area was constructed a full crescent was exactly what Loraine Crescent was intended to be with no through road into Hammond Drive . |
| 19 | The horse fair , which has been held annually since its inception , appeared to be in no immediate danger of ending its almost 900 year run . |
| 20 | Once this was done he set about his task , quite happy to be in no other company that that of the two greys . |
| 21 | And she would have to buy food now for the boy for the next forty-odd hours , since she 'd be in no fit state to do so after . |
| 22 | It was decided , first , that in actions brought by the Crown to enforce or protect its proprietary or contractual rights , it should be in no different position from the ordinary citizen and so should be required to give an undertaking in the usual way . |