Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] no " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Low in fat and sodium , rich in minerals and fibre , the raisin contains virtually no fear-inducing cholesterol . |
| 2 | The passage has virtually no narrative progression : indeed , it begins more or less at the end of the interview . |
| 3 | The law envisages practically no central financing for state museums . |
| 4 | The flock receives virtually no historical background from its shepherd — who is believed to be the definitive authority on such matters . |
| 5 | It is important to note that chance plays virtually no part in the unfolding of events within these tales . |
| 6 | It is the persistent belief that whenever the religion involved a ‘ god ’ to be worshipped , which was almost invariably , that ‘ god ’ had to be an extraterrestrial being over whom mankind has absolutely no control . |
| 7 | The traffic sounds here no noisier than the sea , |
| 8 | The realisation makes him , according to Pippin , ‘ sad but not unhappy ’ , and to modern English semantics the phrase makes almost no sense , like hopeless cheer . |
| 9 | the slave has absolutely no deliberative faculty ; the woman has but its authority is imperfect ; so has the child , but in this case it is immature . |
| 10 | Thai society condemns almost no behaviour , except criticism of the royal family . |
| 11 | The Law Society takes virtually no interest in these matters , or in the too frequent instances of gross negligence or dilatoriness by solicitors in dealing with their clients ' affairs . |
| 12 | In most other orders a postnotum is present in both meso- and metathorax , but in the Orthoptera and Coleoptera the metathorax has acquired two intersegmental sclerites , having both acrotergite and postnotum while the mesothorax has accordingly no postnotum . |
| 13 | It is absolutely clear that the Leader of the House has either no authority or insufficient courage to say whether that promise was categorical or whether it was what the country believes it to have been — evidence of a Prime Minister panicked into making a promise that he has no intention of keeping . |
| 14 | For example , the retired single person with no surviving family has absolutely no need of life assurance , since there is no one to benefit on his or her death . |
| 15 | But where , as here , the regime exercises virtually no administrative control at all in the territory of the state , international recognition of an unconstitutional regime should not suffice and would , indeed , have to be accounted for by policy considerations rather than legal characterisation ; and it is , of course , possible for states to have relations with bodies which are not states or governments of states . |
| 16 | However a third party has normally no right to demand performance of an agreement , or to make any claim in the event of breach . |