Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [vb pp] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is typical of Lewis 's later self that he should have seen no virtue at all in Tillyard 's approach , and that furthermore he should have labelled it ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 2 | However , I should have expected no more . |
| 3 | It is curious that a much-employed binder , as he obviously was , should have left no trace in the records . |
| 4 | There is , needless to say , no suggestion that the Bank of England are in contempt , and , for the same reasons as have led me to conclude that the injunction is overridden , I should have had no hesitation in varying the injunction if it had been necessary to do so . |
| 5 | It had n't occurred to him that all those years Alice , who had looked after him so persistently and unobtrusively , should have had no one to look after her . |
| 6 | Miss Logan halted , initially in surprise , for it appeared that Miss Fergusson had lost her footing on a little stretch of solid rock which should have afforded no peril . |
| 7 | This very landscape must have played no small part in the formation of Tennyson 's poetic mind , as it is vibrantly alive with nature and natural forces . |
| 8 | Young girls feel things so deeply … she must have seen no future at all . |
| 9 | The company must have experienced no default within the previous 5 years . |
| 10 | If she 'd relaxed in her skin after the hot work over the kiln , she had n't flaunted it ; not till that moment , and even then , had she been clothed , the smile might have signified no more than amused affection . |
| 11 | She might have said no more , except that , unluckily for him , Dr Neil felt impelled to continue . |
| 12 | Had it not been for splintered wood and debris Alas on deck , and a ripped sail or two , the storm might have seemed no more than a bad dream . |
| 13 | The light was not on in his room behind him , and from outside Mr Wolski might have seemed no more than an insubstantial shape , the reds and blues of his pyjamas now turned into grim black stripes against white , such as some of the prisoners in Nazi death camps of the Second World War had worn . |
| 14 | Had he had the same nightmare at any other time , it might have had no particular meaning to him at all . |
| 15 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 16 | In cases falling within this protected class , security given by the surety would , in certain circumstances , be unenforceable notwithstanding that the creditor might have had no knowledge of and not have been responsible for the vitiating feature of the transaction . |
| 17 | Kafka could have felt no more trepidation at that time than I , though I covered my nervousness by giggling at Maté 's latest joke . |
| 18 | He could have had no idea that Mr Waterhouse was to become one of the greatest civic architects of the north , for in 1856 , when Hinderton Hall was built , he was still at the brink of his career . |
| 19 | Last September the Redruth hooker , 28 , could have had no hope of playing at Twickenham as he had smashed an elbow in a minor club match and Dawe , his long-standing rival , had been appointed county captain . |
| 20 | When Conan Doyle put these words into the mouth of Sherlock Holmes , he could have had no idea of the tools which would one day become available to the great detective 's fellow scientists in their search for truth . |
| 21 | The boy , brought up in poverty and amid the cruelty of London 's East End in the nineties , could have had no greater reward . |
| 22 | What developed was a massacre rather than any battle , as disciplined and prepared thousands bore down upon a scattered , unready and largely leaderless crowd , which could have had no idea that any enemy were on this side of the river . |
| 23 | But then , he could have had no idea that we were going to have a look at the Delos . |
| 24 | Since Mr Johnson died before the museum was built , he could have had no way of knowing the context in which his collection would eventually be shown . |
| 25 | … As appears from the decision below , the plaintiff could have had no certainty of ultimate success , and we are of opinion that it was not called upon to take the risk of having its contracts disputed and its business injured and of finding the tax more or less nearly doubled in case it finally had to pay . |
| 26 | In relation to such a claim the ex turpi causa defence could have had no application . |
| 27 | There were details to her description she could have known no other way . ’ |
| 28 | Thus it came about that if you walked into a bar in Babylon around 2000 B.C. you could have sampled no fewer than 16 different beers . |
| 29 | He had n't quite stripped her , but the lacy bra and briefs he had left her with could have proved no barrier to his imagination . |
| 30 | " I 'm well aware of that , but you 'd have had no choice . |