Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] be no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon the facts the decision seems to have been correct so far as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher goes , for all that the defendant had done was to plough up some forest land on which there had previously been no thistles but from which , for some unexplained reason , an immense crop of them sprang up in two successive years . |
| 2 | It appears that , although there had previously been no abscess in Miss T. 's lungs , one had developed . |
| 3 | There had reportedly been no profit from Kuwait 's total $5,000 million investment in Spain , and KIO 's worldwide losses were said to be estimated at $5,000 million in 1992 . |
| 4 | He said there had also been no difficulties with the inadmissibility of computer evidence because the council used other sorts of documents to prove its cases . |
| 5 | Woken the next morning , yet again , by the early arrival of the twins , there had simply been no opportunity to do more than groggily force herself to rise , dressing herself and the children before completing the packing of all their suitcases . |
| 6 | According to all the archival evidence available until very recently , there had apparently been no answer to 5 Corps ' almost desperate insistence on 23 May that the hand-over of the Cossacks could not be achieved without use of force . |
| 7 | The ceasefire agreement nevertheless appeared to be holding in the corridors , at least up to the final week of February , and there had still been no reports of any serious breaches of the Rome agreement . |
| 8 | At first it had seemed that the damage was slight , just a lot of pain and some bruising , and even after X-rays had shown a number of broken bones there had still been no reason to suppose that he would n't heal . |
| 9 | During the preceding century there had indeed been no pressure for subsistence , yet at the same time demand had been strong , especially in the east where the growth of a thriving cloth industry along the border , combined with the prosperity of the Devon stannaries , situated within a day 's journey by cart , had created a market lively enough to make small-scale farming a practicable alternative to labouring for wages . |