Example sentences of "no [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ministry of Agriculture collaborated on the dog study and circulars have gone out urging villages to fence in their garbage dumps to deprive the animals of at least that source of food , but there is no wave of popular enthusiasm for slaughtering dogs wholesale . |
| 2 | Now is there is no latent heat and no change in specific volume at the transition , then and we have a second-order transition . |
| 3 | Cholera toxin caused no change in potential difference in any of the groups . |
| 4 | He quickly learned that he was to be used in Scandinavia , because of his languages , but at present — with no expertise of any sort in clandestine communication — he had to train . |
| 5 | There 's no defence against that kind of welcome — and Ray , 29 , was completely thrown . |
| 6 | When her food arrived , she appeared to eat without appetite , made little or no response to any attempts at conversation and left the table without taking dessert or coffee . |
| 7 | For the first time in weeks there was no mass of English soldiery on the terrace area , nor in the other visible encampments , although the tentage was still there , only a few enemy troops remaining between castle and town . |
| 8 | In view of the fact that there is virtually no resistance to gastrooesophageal reflux in patients with Barrett 's oesophagus , this increased duodenogastric reflux is likely to result in significant exposure of the oesophageal mucosa to duodenal juices . |
| 9 | Against this evidence certain points must be made ; no trial of antiarrhythmic agents in patients with increased ventricular ectopic counts has been shown to be beneficial ; in the case of the Cardiac Arrhythmia ( CAST ) trial it has proven detrimental . |
| 10 | There was no enthusiasm at that time from local residents for such a project , nor was any land available for such housing and it was agreed to take no further action on this . |
| 11 | Affect the setting of listed buildings detrimental to conservation areas , increasing traffic , danger to pedestrians , high standard of design not achieved to the site in the conservation area , affect a boundary wall and prob problems of subsidence and no provision for future use of House if used , jeopardized its future should be secured . |
| 12 | The predicted HO 2 concentration for the middle six hours of 15 January is 3.6x10 8 molecules cm -3 , in good agreement with the ‘ measured ’ value ( from equation ( 7 ) ) of 3x10 8 molecules cm -3 , especially as the ‘ measured ’ value makes no provision for photolytic loss of H 2 O 2 and so underestimates HO 2 by about 20% . |
| 13 | In addition , there is no provision for manual control of the sound level control on most models , and a further difficulty is that there are times when a single microphone is not sufficient to do the job properly in any case . |
| 14 | An overwhelming difficulty with the Baxter proposals for King 's Cross is that they make no provision for any improvement to Network SouthEast 's Thameslink cross-London services , which is an essential element of the British Rail plan . |
| 15 | To take one example , there is no provision for independent representation for pupils aged under 18 in respect of appeals concerning reinstatement following permanent exclusion . |
| 16 | Although there were more than 100 British nationals killed in the accident there was no provision at that time for a State with such an interest to participate , but knowing that the minister was bound to be asked by MPs in the House what arrangements there were for investigating the cause of death of so many UK citizens I telephoned my old friend Michel Vigier in paris with a formal request that we might send a UK observer . |
| 17 | As he has said ‘ the man who throws a race is a crook for life ’ , it is fair to guess that Melges ' ’ day off ’ was for no other reason than that he wanted no part of any manipulation of points . |
| 18 | It must have the additional power of a moral code based on a religion , and there is no part of human affairs in which this applies with more force than it does in the matter of child rearing . |
| 19 | Ken took no part in Jacobite plots against William III , but all the non-jurors became very unpopular when England was at war with France , which supported James 's claim to the throne . |
| 20 | Such concessions appeared momentous ; yet they were made largely to secure English military help for one faction against another in a situation of civil war , and were unlikely to command lasting support , above all since the king , Charles VI , had had no part in this dismemberment of his kingdom . |
| 21 | He seems to have taken no part in public life under the Commonwealth , but when the Exchequer was re-established under the Protectorate he failed to regain his old post as auditor , having to wait for this until the Restoration , when he protested , perhaps predictably , that he had never really been a parliamentarian at all . |
| 22 | The castle of Richmond filled an obvious gap in Gloucester 's domination of Richmondshire , although the lack of it had made little practical difference to his position there , since Clarence seems to have played no part in northern affairs after 1471 . |
| 23 | The castle of Richmond filled an obvious gap in Gloucester 's domination of Richmondshire , although the lack of it had made little practical difference to his position there , since Clarence seems to have played no part in northern affairs after 1471 . |
| 24 | PPC : There 's no excuse for that kind of attitude being taken by any sales team . |
| 25 | There really is no excuse for this state of affairs when it is quite easy to write a good straightforward media release . |
| 26 | With modern technology there is no excuse for this kind of slapdash remastering . |
| 27 | That is too suggestive of positions for which there is no kind of necessary connection between a thing 's natural character and its value . |
| 28 | Topical metronidazole Editor , — I wish to correct Minerva 's mistaken assertion that there is no preparation of topical metronidazole for treating rosacea in Britain . |
| 29 | There was no noise of any kind from the party room . |
| 30 | It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year . |