Example sentences of "had no [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Conversely , if the Director had no powers of compulsion after charge then the issuing of yet another caution would make no difference .
2 They had no powers in relation to criminal actions against the police and no powers of investigation .
3 she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing
4 But Francis had no message of goodwill for Rideout , snapping : ‘ What he did was very silly indeed , especially right in front of the referee . ’
5 The Russians had no word for landscape till the French arrived with ‘ paysage ’ .
6 On my first acquaintance with the mad little road , in about 1950 , I had no feelings of affection for it nor any eye for the beauty all around , my gaze being fixed on the tarmac ahead as I dragged weary legs along it .
7 Members of the Hitler Youth itself allegedly saw the Party already as a piece of history , had no feelings of loyalty towards it , and had no reservations about criticizing it .
8 He claims , with every semblance of sincerity , that whereas he had on previous occasions deliberately sought out these wretched and exploited females , this time he had no thoughts of fornication in his head .
9 Sun said Axil had no license from Sun to the board .
10 This group had no evidence of ulcer on endoscopy but showed varying degrees of gastritis .
11 If women had no ego , if they had no sense of separation from the rest of the world , no repression and no regression , how nice that would be ! ’ ( 1971 : 1 1 1 ) .
12 However , the overwhelming majority of those inhabitants of the subcontinent who adhered to Islam had no sense of identification with the dynasty ( even when they knew it existed ) and the fact that the dynasty was Muslim had little to do with its exercise of power .
13 However strongly she felt about the rights and wrongs of her situation she had no sense of power over its outcome .
14 An individual who belonged to Israel had no choice with respect to paying the poor tithe .
15 However , in Warren v Truprint [ 1986 ] BCLC 344 a clause which did offer a " two-tier service " was held unreasonable : the customer had no choice in relation to the terms , since such terms were universal in the industry , and the contract failed to indicate the extent of extra liability the processor would accept .
16 When we reached Auckland we had no plan of action at all , and as we knew no-one there was no-one to meet us .
17 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 .
18 They had no level of communication at all , and a bus ride with him was an ordeal rather than a pleasure , for she had to rack her brains to reply to his remarks about the weather , the town 's football teams , the cinema , his headmaster , and so forth , but nevertheless when he wrote her a note saying :
19 If we had no rights of participation in the subsequent investigation , we would have no reliable means of obtaining the information .
20 Editor , — R H V Jones and colleagues in their follow up study of cancer deaths at home comment that patients ' pain was relieved more effectively than any of the other symptoms , But of the 207 patients in the study , 42 received only moderate relief of pain — and eight had no relief of pain in their final month of life .
21 She had no vision of money as an independent power , or a formidable opponent .
22 After all Marc was described as a sensitive young man , who had no hint of trouble in his life .
23 The specific purpose of that Act , as of the Act of 1935 before it , was to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim to contribution under the general law .
24 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 ) .
25 Mrs Whitehouse proclaimed herself very happy with the outcome , although she had no wish for Lemon to be jailed .
26 The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again .
27 Dhondt 's argument seems to fit Flanders best : but the Count Baldwin ( died 879 ) who held some counties in that region in the latter part of Charles 's reign is never called " Count of Flanders " in any ninth-century text ; the hallmarks of entrenched territorial power ( systematic fortifications ; minting of coins ) are not to be found during his lifetime , but rather in that of his son ; Baldwin had no monopoly on power in Flanders , for other magnates operated in the same region ; finally , no hereditary transmission of the " principality " can be demonstrated here during Charles 's reign but only , again , after Charles 's death .
28 The company demurred , contending that the child had no cause of action in respect of injuries sustained while in her mother 's womb .
29 Nevertheless , the Court of Appeal held , by a majority , that the tenant had no cause of action against the landlord .
30 By demurring to that plea , the plaintiff admits that he had no cause of action against the defendant in the action therein mentioned , and that he knew it .
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