Example sentences of "[noun sg] and no [indef pn] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be a trespass to goods and it would be usurping the owner 's rights , for only he would have any right to do such an act and no one could contend that there was any implied consent or authority to a customer to do any such thing . |
| 2 | He stands by what he said , and , sadly , many of his criticisms are still valid : the team have still not bought a video camera despite a large injection of cash from the Sports Council and no one could say that the preparation training for the world championships — one weekend in the Kendal Judo Club — has been anything but derisory . |
| 3 | That will last nearly 250 years at current consumption and no one can see beyond that . |
| 4 | So when the shivering fit is over I write my bellicose article and no one would guess that I ever hesitated . |
| 5 | Her garments were so large and flowing that a man could have pleasured her while she was waiting at a bus-stop and no one would have been any the wiser . |
| 6 | She only needed an evening gown like the one Dana wore in the magazine picture and no one would believe there were two of them . |
| 7 | I could leave a Madonna tape in the middle of the room and no one would rip it ! |
| 8 | ‘ From now on , ’ the guard informed him , ‘ you will be confined to this room and no one will enter it for forty-eight hours . |
| 9 | He could , for instance , quite easily have taken Mrs Goreng aside later in the day and no one would have noticed . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , we 've had a nice day and no one can take it away from us , ’ he would remark contentedly . |
| 11 | In addition you start concentrating on the financial side of the sport — you 've already got your medal and your title and no one can take that away from you . |
| 12 | If it develops too fast York may kill the goose that laid the golden egg and no one will want to live there — just as tourists are beginning to avoid Lake Windermere because of its commerciality and crowds of people . |
| 13 | Emerson , Lake , Bruford and Palmolive win every category in the NME poll even though they are never featured in the paper and no one will admit voting for them . |
| 14 | It relates to the average man or woman and no one can say whether an individual plaintiff is that average man or woman . |
| 15 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 16 | NOOBLE HOOBLE or NOBBER : Rude words when you 're in space and no one can hear you scream them . |
| 17 | And when he does his invention calmly and equitably becomes part of everyday life and no one can understand why it was n't always there . |
| 18 | He could have kept Maggie to warm his bed and no one would have thought the worse of him for it . |
| 19 | The reality was that he could walk into any bar or restaurant anywhere in the world and no one would give him a second glance . |
| 20 | Then , it follows from that , that understanding Shakespeare , and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive , is also a good , because if for example this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no one could see him and no one could understand him and no one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment . |
| 21 | Recalling their early days in racing , Lord Hesketh said : ‘ He was known as Hunt the Shunt and no one would hire him . |
| 22 | The labels were in English and no one could read them . |
| 23 | One villager said : ‘ They were a very pleasant couple and no one can understand what has gone wrong . ’ |
| 24 | I remember the evening when four of our oldest friends came to dinner and no one could think of anything to say , and they all fled in terror . |