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Example sentences of "[is] no [vb base] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I was just dithering , trying to see what the new keys were , when I thought ‘ shit , unless I can send it , there s no point me carrying on ’ .
2	‘ If you wo n't it 's no go altogether .
3	If it 's no go with the bins , we 'll try the waste tips . ’
4	But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it 's no go if your personality is n't worth translating .
5	‘ It 's no use me doing nothing now and wondering why we 've got a problem in March . ’
6	This situation had been carefully noted by the inquisitive ill-natured Eleanor fuller who had been able , much to her satisfaction , to say on another occasion , ‘ It 's no use your keeping on going accidentally on purpose by Warreners farm .
7	It 's no use you waiting about for him .
8	‘ It 's no use you being in love with him any more than me , Retty Priddle , ’ said Marian , the eldest .
9	It 's no use my telling you what it is — she might not agree , and then it would only be a waste of time . ’
10	It 's no use a big and strong man trying to swing a lady 's club .
11	I can buy the best legal brains in the business , so it 's no use your fighting .
12	‘ He 's no fool you know , that driver , ’ said Tuppe .
13	It 's no wonder you 're turning to us , the brightest alternative .
14	So it 's no wonder the 12-year-old multi-millionaire who plays Kevin McAllister in the film is smiling because he gets a cut every time a till jingles with another toy , poster or T-shirt sold .
15	This is serious shit , and it 's no wonder some people are freaking out and saying reading will be it .
16	Perhaps it 's no wonder the Club recently won the prestigious Operating Initiative Award , run by Leisure Week magazine .
17	It 's no wonder the counter is n't manned half the time .
18	Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth ; it 's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green .
19	It 's no wonder the unit director ‘ Welcomes our assistance . ’
20	It 's no wonder you were quarrelling last night — he had you backed into a corner a couple of times with facts you did n't know .
21	It is no use us trying to clobber the economy with high taxation any more than it 's any use Lawson clobbering the economy with high interest rates …
22	The notion of pastiche is now a guiding thread in critical discourse , to the extent that Palandri 's novel can be put forward as ‘ a disturbing attempt to write a kitsch novel ’ ( De Michelis 1986a ) , and the argument be made — — referring to Piersanti 's Charles — that no novelist born in the 1950s can return to ‘ traditional narrative ’ without being aware that he/she is ‘ holding an old toy which might look fine in an antique shop , or might be an ornament or a collector 's item , but is no good for playing with any more ’ ; if they do use it ( but why should they if it is no use any more ? ) , it is with a mixture of pleasure and melancholy , ‘ like someone repeating a game which once gave pleasure for years and years and now gives none , only the memory of the joy it once gave ’ ( De Michelis 1986b ) .
23	If I see God 's power clearly but not his wisdom , then it is no use my finding out about his justice or faithfulness .
24	If he loses all his money it is no use his having saved tax .
25	… If not , it is no use his coming . ’
26	‘ It is no use me spitting out my dummy , ’ he said , borrowing a a popular Australian phrase .
27	It is no use any hon. Member saying that the length of miners ' hours has nothing to do with safety .
28	It is no use the Home Secretary saying that the high crime rate is due to other factors .
29	It is no use the hon. Member for Leeds , Central looking to either side of him ; he is the guilty man .
30	A logical operation is one which treats all bits of the word similarly and independently ; there is no carry from one bit to another , nor is there an underlying implied interpretation of the word as a numeric quantity .