Example sentences of "[vb base] no [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those verbs , though roughly appropriate , evoke no tingle of recognition in the reader : they are flat , inert . |
| 2 | Poor housing and other social ills provide no kind of reason for riot , arson and killing . |
| 3 | From the results of ISIS-2 , the use of full-dose aspirin immediately would prevent 23 of these premature deaths and cause no increase in risk of cerebral haemorrhage . |
| 4 | I receive no complaints of substance about the excellent health service in north Devon ; nor do I believe that it has exceeded its authority in any way . |
| 5 | Will the Minister confirm that Kenya and Malawi are the largest African recipients of British aid , and that both are one-party states which show no signs of progress towards multi-party democracy ? |
| 6 | Mr Balladur and his ministers may have made soothing noises abroad over GATT , but they show no signs at home of abandoning the previous government 's intransigence . |
| 7 | Sufferers from alcoholism or other forms of addiction in recovery through Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous or other Anonymous Fellowships show no deficiency of will in comparison with the non-addictive population . |
| 8 | This creates an exception to both : ( 1 ) the general practice that experts ' decisions are final : see 8.8 ; and ( 2 ) the less well-established principle that certifiers owe no duty of care to contractors : see 7.4.2. introduced a further tier of dispute resolution by interposing optional alternative dispute resolution ( ADR ) between the decision of the engineer and arbitration . |
| 9 | He did not think that a state in which a rich majority governed could be properly called a democracy : " suppose a total of one thousand three hundred ; one thousand of these are rich , they give no share in government to the three hundred poor , who also are free men and in other respects like them ; no one would say that these thirteen hundred lived under a democracy . " |
| 10 | Will not the Prime Minister refer to the report and listen to the voices of business and commerce from all over the country when they say : ’ A worsening position on employment expectations , ’ — higher job losses — ’ and a major down-grading of business confidence , however , give no cause for comfort in this survey ’ ? |
| 11 | First , it ensures that you can still utilise the database without retrieving BLOBs and suffer no loss of speed in your application because of the presence of BLOBs within records . |
| 12 | There are schools that have extensive stage and lighting equipment that make no use of drama in the curriculum . |
| 13 | And get no ideas about wrestling with me , Liu Chang . |
| 14 | The trust provisions in section 61 draw no distinction of consequence between a declaration of trust relating to the whole deposit and one related to a defined part of a deposit . |
| 15 | This , however , is not helpful , for ‘ chose in action ’ is a notoriously vague term used to describe a mass of interests which have little or nothing in common except that they confer no right to possession of a physical thing , and which range from purely personal rights under a contract to patents , copyrights and trade marks . |
| 16 | Although speech is the more natural communication method for humans , literate people feel no sense of priority between speech and writing — indeed , many people also find it easier to organise their thoughts using pen and paper . |
| 17 | Did the Prime Minister feel no sense of humiliation at having to meet the other 11 Heads of Government and having to explain to them in the most public way why the British economy was so uniquely vulnerable and fragile that we alone were unable to provide the basic minimum provisions of the social charter ? |
| 18 | I just want someone to know that this — all this stuff — has been a burden and nothing but a burden from start to finish , and that I feel no twinge of regret at coming out of that place , and that I shall never go back into it , ever , so help me Frederica Potter . |
| 19 | I mean they get into these jobs and really they 've no background of understanding of the exact |
| 20 | The same problem of interpretation arises from any use of manorial records , probably the best available documentary source ; these can tell us no more than the number of holdings which fell vacant on particular estates and throw no light on mortality among landless persons . |
| 21 | On the other hand the production of separate leaflets can be staggered and additions and alterations can be made at any time quickly and less expensively ; and some leaflets , which require no alteration from year to year , need not be reprinted for one or two years . |
| 22 | Your Board and its financial advisors Purchase and Szell Ltd consider this revised offer to be totally inadequate and continue to recommend most strongly that you take no action in respect of your shareholding . |
| 23 | But Welsh Local Government Minister Gwilym Jones told the Welsh Tory Conference in Llangollen yesterday : ‘ While we shall be listening very carefully , we see no case at present for departing from the main thrust of our proposals . |
| 24 | I see no trace of desire for a better world ( at least Public Enemy , whatever their ideological shortcomings , hold out some kind of hope ) ; no sign of the basic ( but increasingly unfashionable ) humanistic values of tolerance , compassion , and respect for difference ; and , artistically speaking , no mystery , imagination , or spirit . |
| 25 | I can for myself see no argument in favour of the privilege against producing a document the contents of which may go to show that the holder has committed a criminal offence . |
| 26 | ‘ I see no prospect of improvement in the North 's economy and it seems ridiculous to talk about an upturn . |
| 27 | This is why many women see no wrong in abortion on demand — which is what most politicians abhor . |
| 28 | We acknowledge that measurement imparts some disturbance to the system observed but we see no barrier of principle to reducing this to any arbitrary assigned degree of smallness . |
| 29 | We have no problem with gonorrhoea in this part of the world ’ . |
| 30 | They have no protection in law against oppression be it exercised by their employers , the state or their menfolk . |