Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A petition can only be presented in respect of a debt if ( s 267(2) ) : ( i ) the amount of the debt or the aggregate of the debts is equal to or exceeds the bankruptcy level ( defined in 5267(4) as £750 but subject to change by the Secretary of State ) , ( ii ) the debt of each of the debts is for a liquidated sum payable either immediately or at some future time and is unsecured , ( iii ) the debtor appears unable to pay or to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay the debt or debts , and ( iv ) there is no outstanding application to set aside a statutory demand served under s 268 ( see section 4 ( c ) below ) . |
| 2 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 3 | The people of Northern Ireland and , indeed , of Britain and the Republic expect their constitutional politicians to put aside their differences in pursuit of a peaceful political solution and to raise no false obstacles to sitting down to discuss matters among themselves . |
| 4 | Should teachers at school , like professors at university , be expected in the future simply to teach academic or practical subjects to their pupils , and to have no general pastoral or moral responsibility for them ? |
| 5 | The group discussions showed that Asians tended to be well informed about credit — at least as well as white people generally — and to have no real difficulties in using it . |
| 6 | Then is sometimes claimed to be necessarily anaphoric in nature , and to have no gestural deictic usage , but rather complex usages show this is not so — consider , for example , the following said pointing at a 1962 model Chevrolet ( Nunberg , 1978 : 33 ) ) : ( 55 ) I was just a kid then As an initial step towards seeing how time deixis interacts with cultural measurements of time in an absolute or non-deictic way , consider words like today , tomorrow , yesterday . |