Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] [verb] no " in BNC.

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1 It was n't entirely true but it could very well have been and he showed no surprise .
2 Says Jim Cummins : ‘ Kids who are proud of who they are and who have no ambivalence about that have no problems in school ’ .
3 Whilst it is conceivable that some of these jobs will be craft based and thus provide an outlet for some initiative and self activism , the significant reality will be that they have no economic power and no industrial muscle .
4 If a secretarial assistant does not wish to accept the invitation with its terms , we would not press the matter but the policy should be that we appoint no more off-the-payroll secretarial assistants and that the whole arrangement ends by April 1993 .
5 In a letter to his congregation he said : ‘ It may be that we have no influence on those who plan and carry out murders in both parts of our community , but we can all help create a climate of opinion where they will be increasingly isolated and disowned . ’
6 The problem will be that we have no great tacklers in the midfield without Batts .
7 It ca n't be that you have no principles .
8 Can it be that you have no idea of the power a young , nubile girl can exercise over a young , impressionable male ? ’
9 True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes .
10 That , however , would be because he had no other remedy .
11 He did n't know where it could be as he felt no pain except a slight stitch when he did aerobics .
12 The implications were that I had no physical characteristics of my own , but that in the same way as I ‘ had ’ my father 's nose , or my grandmother 's eyes , I somehow inhabited a body which was not mine but a replica of my mother 's , and over which , therefore , I had no control .
13 ‘ The worst thing is that we get no information about what is going on ’ , he says .
14 A limitation of this study is that we had no information on the type of hysterectomy — abdominal or vaginal .
15 What we were n't trying to say is that we make no contribution to the greenhouse effect … [ but ] to say that making Andrex from virgin fibre instead of waste causes less carbon dioxide to be released to the atmosphere . ’
16 Our pledge to you is that we owe no allegiance to any manufacturer ( though we reserve the right to let their best brains entertain and inform you on these pages ) .
17 The fact is that we have no option but to raise salaries .
18 His reply is that we have no idea of material substance because matter is an impossibility and could not exist ; whereas , though we can have no sensory idea of spiritual substance , minds are not an impossibility and could exist .
19 ’ The main thing is that we have no choice .
20 The problem , Sir John , is that we have no evidence .
21 Now if we just look at the er test statistics for this particular model , right , if we chose say the five percent significance level right , then we can see serial correlation , we 've got a test statistic of two point zero eight , right , we would n't reject the null hypothesis there , the null is that we have no serial correlation , we have uncorrelated errors right , clearly we want uncorrelated errors , right , so we 'd be quite happy with that particular test statistic , it does n't exceed the er five percent critical value .
22 An overwhelming difficulty with the Baxter proposals for King 's Cross is that they make no provision for any improvement to Network SouthEast 's Thameslink cross-London services , which is an essential element of the British Rail plan .
23 Perhaps the most glaring epistemological critique levelled at Marxist approaches is that they contain no counter-factual .
24 Heath was calling for a decisive mandate to put the unions in their place , but the most striking feature of the results is that they offered no party any decisive mandate whatever .
25 One of the penalties of keeping immaculate accounts is that they leave no room for hope — there were no errors in Nora 's books to offer the firm a surprise salvation .
26 The most damaging feature of the August figures , however , is that they showed no sign , after a year and a half of severe monetary tightening , that the worst was over .
27 For years we in this country have been accustomed to say ‘ American education is superficial ’ or ‘ the trouble with American students is that they have no idea of scholarship ’ .
28 The trouble with the British , the critic went on , and above all with British writers , is that they have no experience of invasion or concentration camps , and think politeness will always get you through .
29 What is equally clear among business men is that they have no enthusiasm whatever for a Labour Government .
30 One of the principal difficulties faced by the Russians at present is that they have no effective distribution system whatsoever to deal with the aid that is available to them .
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