1.   Even so, a significant number of takeover bids were probably no more than a form of corporate conspicuous consumption.

2.   The manufacture of cloth was thus no more than a Marginal addition to the subsistence agriculture of the interior.

3.   The ultimate objectives of this strategy were of course no different from those of previous post-war governments.

4.   We drubbed our traditional football rivals so badly that it was basically no contest.

5.   They are morally no worse on the whole than the lecherous men who inhabit these tales, and intellectually much superior to them on most occasions.

6.   And if the development was inexpensive and lucrative the risk was virtually no deterrent at all.

7.   If constant gesturing had been required in the Baroque repertory, it was perhaps no longer so.

8.   The problems relating to the sale of secondhand goods are basically no different from those of any other type of goods, except in the area of quality.

9.   Amazingly, to me, their answer is often no.

10.   And the answer is clearly no.