Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [adv] no " in BNC.

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1 There has been effectively no involvement on the part of UK funds in index arbitrage .
2 Since the beginning of September until this week there has been practically no rain , and the wind has never reached gale force , so the leaves have stayed on the trees far longer than usual , with a constantly changing pattern of glorious colour .
3 ‘ There has been absolutely no discussion going on as to how many Liberal Democrat bottoms will sit in the back of how many government Daimlers , ’ he said .
4 Though he has attracted some favourable notices in the last few years , his works have had very few prestigious performances , and there has been absolutely no powerful publicity machine or critical coterie building up behind him .
5 We would be happy to consider the prospects for thin slab steel production , but unfortunately there has been absolutely no commercial interest in such production .
6 It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England .
7 Yet there has been almost no research into primary school children 's developing historical competence .
8 There has been almost no concern expressed , however , about the implications of automated office systems for future research methodologies .
9 Recently , there has been virtually no recruitment .
10 At the same time there has been virtually no new council house building .
11 While international contracting on large development projects in the lesser developed countries is well established , there has been virtually no trading of construction services within Europe .
12 Although there has been much detailed study of the effects of tariff reduction in western Europe over the period 1945-68 there has been virtually no research into the impact on foreign trade and national balances of payments of the removal of non-tariff barriers , especially the quotas which had been widely imposed from 1931 onwards .
13 Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving .
14 It suggests that there has been hitherto no perceived need for local authorities to assert the right for denying which in 1891 the court was severely criticised , or to use the right which was held to exist by Browne J. , to whom no submissions were made based on article 10 , in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 in 1972 .
15 ‘ And , anyway , he 's been absolutely no trouble to me at all .
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