Example sentences of "have no [noun] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moise , a businessman typical of Le Sentier 's clothing industry entrepreneurs , has no time for criticism of his employment practices : ‘ Of course we employ workers in conditions outside the legal norms . |
| 2 | The Russians had no word for landscape till the French arrived with ‘ paysage ’ . |
| 3 | Hired by the voyage , and at the mercy of the shipowners , they had no opportunity for combination at sea short of mutiny and only rare opportunity when on shore , and then only by petition and demonstration . |
| 4 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the liability imposed under section 1(1) of the Act of 1978 was intended by Parliament , by virtue of section 6(1) of the Act , to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim for contribution under the general law , and applied whenever a plaintiff had a cause of action against a third party in respect of the same damage as gave rise to his cause of action against the defendant , irrespective of the legal basis of the liability ; and that , accordingly , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio could not be relied upon in answer to a claim for contribution under the Act ; and that , since there was sufficient possibility of the third party being found liable for some part of the plaintiffs ' loss , there were no grounds for striking out the third party notice ( post , pp. 1022H — 1023A , G–H , 1024G — 1025D ) . |
| 5 | Mrs Whitehouse proclaimed herself very happy with the outcome , although she had no wish for Lemon to be jailed . |
| 6 | We had no facilities for food in the police station . |
| 7 | Beccaria 's scheme had no place for imprisonment as a punishment . |
| 8 | But a bank spokesman said yesterday : ‘ We have no plans for flotation of Direct Line , although nothing is for ever . |
| 9 | Middlesex lead the table , Warwickshire have no margin for error during the run in , but after seeing the title go twice to their neighbours from New Road , the men from Edgbaston could be about to have their day . |
| 10 | ‘ And I have no wish for time to soon pass , as you express it — were time to pass that quickly , I should very soon be an old old woman . |
| 11 | Other people 's approbation and censure is all insipid and uncritical , so does not help ; and I have no ground for confidence in myself . |
| 12 | They have no time for self-congratulation on their narrow escape . |