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

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1 According to Mosley , the interruptions showed the necessity for the fascists to have a defence force and demonstrated that for many years past there had been no freedom of speech in the country .
2 There seems to have been no element of corruption in this , despite the involvement of Poulson in a range of corrupt activities in the North East in the 1960s .
3 There had been no hesitation of course with regard to the captain who , despite rumours and only rumours about his taste for low company — which she supposed any military man might possess — was a Goldsborough of Frizingley with nothing really known against him but his preference for living in a tavern .
4 No sense of urgency or enthusiasm here , just as there had been no promise of support in the seamen 's ballot of the previous June .
5 The French have just joined Russia in declaring that they will temporarily halt testing ; Boris Yeltsin could be under pressure to rescind Russia 's test ban in September if there has been no sign of flexibility from Britain and the US .
6 They say there has been no shortage of interest in the project from potential backers .
7 There has been no shortage of material for his autobiography , What 's It All About ?
8 If there had been no question of acquiescence in this case , these children would have been returned to Australia pursuant to the order of Thorpe J. shortly after it was made on 20 December 1991 .
9 There has been no strike in agriculture since 1923 and the instinct of the farm worker is to shun rather than seek the kind of publicity which would be required to engender public support for his cause .
10 There has been no strike in agriculture in England since 1923 .
11 There have been no claims of responsibility for the Bombay or Calcutta blasts .
12 The historical reasons underlying the emergence of these principles , as explained by Dixon J. in Yerkey v. Jones , 63 C.L.R. 649 , may explain why cases , in which there had been no disposition of property by the surety wife but merely the acceptance by her of a contractual obligation to pay her husband 's debts , did not attract the same approach as the cases in which security over property had been given .
13 Since her father 's death she had written regularly to her grandfather , but there had been no word in reply from Hester .
14 Yet there 's been no increase in demand from advocates of ‘ organic ’ vegetables for the tens of thousands of allotments that lie untended throughout our land .
15 There had been no room for competition with her mother and Jenna had never wanted to try to offer any resistance to the relentless drive that kept her mother going .
16 The intercept is the expected return on the security which implies that even if the return on this factor was zero ( as in the case of the other three ) , the actual return would be equal to that expected , there have been no deviations in reality from what had been expected .
17 At Allen Street there appears to have been no loss of productivity in his output .
18 Mr Barber said : ‘ In the East Anglian Customs and Excise region there have been no arrests in relation to these imports but there have been some seizures of alcohol at boot sales in Norfolk and Suffolk . ’
19 Up until now there has been no uniformity of presentation of nutrition information ; a manufacturer has been free to give what information he wants in the way he chooses to express it .
20 But now she said , as if there had been no period of silence between them , ‘ Neil 's my friend , OK ?
21 It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth .
22 There has been no injury to bowel in the 113 patients in whom the procedure was attempted , although others have reported this complication .
23 This passage is interesting as it assumes that there would have been no right of recovery in any of the cases to which the section referred although had the Woolwich principle been applicable there would have been recovery , apart from the section , in some .
24 He had always seemed a solid family man , and until his exposure there had been no hint of scandal about him .
25 Police had found Bartman 's tie label on the floor of the shop but there had been no trace of blood on the tie itself or on any other clothes or in his car .
26 This right does not arise under the SGA where the contract provides for delivery in more than one consignment , since there has been no breach in respect of goods not yet delivered , however reasonable it is for the buyer to fear that there will be in the future .
27 As part of their case , the Church made much of the fact that there had been no objection to demolition from within the village .
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