Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writer filed the exhibit for future reference , happy that court case or no court case , the pop star in question had a sense of humour . |
| 2 | The chief inspector had just come , case or no case , from setting a close watch on those spots , in expectation — in foreboding , rather — that the flood would bring some unusual freight aground very shortly . |
| 3 | Still , scam or no scam , there 's no denying , especially not from Galliano themselves , that the tag is currently working full steam ahead in their flavour . |
| 4 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 5 | Each genetic change can result in either much morphological change , little morphological change or no morphological change . |
| 6 | We accept then that , responsibility or no responsibility , commission or no commission , prices may behave in such a way that profits rise faster than a certain rate , that rate being the rate at which incomes other than profits — or perhaps incomes including profits ? — are increasing . |
| 7 | a maid-of-all-work , usually in a household of modest income where no other servants were kept . |
| 8 | Jane was not popular : in order to be popular , you had to be good at games , and Jane was useless at all of them — and they played everything — netball , rounders , tennis , lacrosse , hockey — even cricket — every afternoon , rain or shine , exams or no exams . |
| 9 | Computer or no computer , I should certainly not have been able to handle the mathematics myself but John Cook likes that sort of thing and using the Mercury computer at Farnborough he was able to map the stresses very close to the tip of a crack which had a finite tip radius . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend think that , election or no election , the sooner they get on with it the better ? |
| 11 | Thirteen patients did not enter the study : two did not want to , two were pregnant at the time of colposcopy , and nine were not treated in accordance with the study protocol ( no cervical scrape or no biopsy specimen was taken or no treatment was given when the biopsy specimen showed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia ) . |
| 12 | It is an excellent example of the pointlessness of so much intelligence work , often conceived in the looking-glass world of make-believe where no one seems to be in touch with the real world outside , or to even consider the consequences of their ludicrous ideas . |
| 13 | They are likely to have low self esteem , a low income or no money . |
| 14 | That leaves plenty of room for discounters to prosper , recession or no recession . |
| 15 | It is a device for securing a make-believe absolute majority where no genuine absolute majority exists , and the winner is not the candidate most voters want but the candidate most voters are willing to accept . |
| 16 | On the west , they said , the waves had ranged a hundred feet high up the cliffs , scouring the bird-ledges clean and breaking through bridges and tunnels of rock where no gap had existed before . |
| 17 | A nook where no one 'll see |
| 18 | Her mother Wendy hovered round the house in too petty and ethereal a form to be much use : the occasional glimmer of light where no light should be , an object in motion which by rights should be still . |
| 19 | This is in agreement with one study comparing patients with and without cortisone and sulphasalazine therapy where no influence on intestinal permeability was shown . |
| 20 | And even Hoggatt 's Laboratory , blood or no blood , had been part of the village for over seventy years , while Chevisham Manor had stood for nearly three times as long . |
| 21 | In addition to playing a leading role in the movement for the restoration of these craft ( he was Honorary Secretary of the Galway Hooker Association for six years ) , he has taken his boat where no Hookers have ever sailed before . |
| 22 | One reply to this is that most offences of bad driving have the potential to cause death or serious injury ; and that the North Committee 's proposals undervalue the element of endangerment where no harm occurs rather than over -value the resulting harm where it does occur . |
| 23 | Over the weekend , Tory loyalists like Michael Ancram and Tim Renton have acknowledged publicly that if the choice becomes Maastricht plus the social chapter or no Maastricht then the sensible , majority position will be Maastricht Plus . |
| 24 | ‘ I am by no means suggesting that there is no crime or no violence , obviously that is not true . |
| 25 | Profit and loss — either record an expense or no effect . |
| 26 | John McLeish was in his office , Saturday or no Saturday , telling himself he needed to catch up on the paperwork . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'd be questioned fast enough at the gate-house , seal or no seal , ’ said Harry gloomily , ‘ if you had me with you . ’ |
| 28 | ( 1 ) In a default action where no hearing or pre-trial review date has been fixed , or Ord 17 , r 11 ( automatic directions ) applies and before pleadings are closed under Ord 17 , r 11(a) , he may issue without leave ( Ord 12 , r 2(b) and ( c ) . |
| 29 | Typically , the reptilian egg is laid on land and is encased in a shell to prevent its liquids from evaporating , but those eggs that are kept within the female until they hatch have either very thin shells or no shells at all . |
| 30 | His comments reflect the uncertainity of an experiment where no one under the age of 42 has voted before . |