Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As is so often the case , these gates have been made by someone who has obviously no experience of walking , because they are impossible to negotiate with a rucksack on , unless you climb onto the bottom bars of the fence around the gate to lift the sack above the top rail . |
| 2 | However a third party has normally no right to demand performance of an agreement , or to make any claim in the event of breach . |
| 3 | A trainee who feels that their training course is inadequate has often no option but to continue on the training course or find themselves in a position of having their benefits cut . |
| 4 | We see this in : ( 59 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars The article here has virtually no function except to commend the entity identified as one which the audience should be able to recognize , and recognition focuses on the property damaged . |
| 5 | There 's the green Instructions for Prisoners book [ information book ] , but it has virtually no relevance to anything to do with life in prison . |
| 6 | He has virtually no ball skills whatsoever , and has been completely anonymous every time he 's played for England . |
| 7 | ( An able pupil of mine who became a successful solicitor was glad he did not become a barrister , who in his experience is driven too hard ; the clerk piles too much work on him , he has no one to delegate to , and has virtually no assistance except of a secretarial kind ; also , counsel in general common law practice has much travelling to do . ) |
| 8 | He has virtually no movement in any of his limbs . ’ |
| 9 | The first of these lists contains virtually no description of individual personality . |
| 10 | the main difference is that the wine is fermented without the skins ( and thus contains virtually no tannin ) and at a lower temperature to preserve the delicate flavour and aroma . |
| 11 | Archetypal suburbia from the 1920s contains virtually no housing for private renting . |
| 12 | In fact it needs virtually no maintenance at all unless roughly treated , whereas the mirrors of a reflector have to be periodically re-coated with a thin layer of silver or aluminium . |
| 13 | Ground-level ozone , which has almost no contact with the ‘ ozone layer ; of the stratosphere , forms in ’ peaks ’ or ‘ episodes ’ , strongly influenced by sunshine . |
| 14 | The crop is a strain of cannabis or hemp that has almost no effect as a drug , and is completely legal . |
| 15 | The man who can not make eight or ten bales at least has almost no object in life and nothing to live on . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Pure ethanol in low concentrations ( <5% volume/volume ) is a mild stimulant of acid secretion whereas at higher concentrations it has either no effect or a mildly inhibitory one . |
| 18 | The higher concentrations of ethanol studied has either no effect or a mildly inhibitory one . |
| 19 | Thus we conclude that intravenous ethanol , at least in the doses used , and intragastric infusion of low concentrations ( up to 5% ) of ethanol stimulate gastric acid secretion whereas intragastric infusion of higher concentrations has either no effect or a mildly inhibitory one . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The most daunting problem facing Louis Gerstner is that as yet he has absolutely no idea just how much he does n't know — and he will be Superman if in six months he has more than scratched the surface on that problem . |
| 22 | I asked him why he hit a 3-wood off the tee and he said he had to ; when he hits a driver he has absolutely no idea where the ball will go ! " |
| 23 | So she has absolutely no idea how to cope with young children . |
| 24 | ‘ This country ’ , he said , ‘ has absolutely no hope without a massive , global , tough , shoot-the-bad-guys policy of disarmament . |
| 25 | That Palestinian Arabs did cultivate the land in the nineteenth century — as a glance at Roberts ' lithographs clearly proves — went unnoticed by Aumann , who concluded his thesis by stating that the contention that 95 per cent of the land of the state of Israel had belonged to Arabs ‘ has absolutely no foundation in fact . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Are we saying that God has absolutely no imagination at all ? |
| 28 | A fraught fivesome with ants in their pants and , presumably , cockroaches in their coat pockets , they 're all about threats and menace and a three-guitar assault which owes rather a lot to tykes like the Pixies but has absolutely no intention of paying the buggers back . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Thus Betelgeux in Orion , one of the brightest stars in the sky , is clearly orange-red , but Mu Cephei , in the far north , shows almost no colour at all until you look at it with binoculars , when it gives the impression of a glowing coal , and earns its nickname of ‘ the Garnet Star ’ . |