Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] no [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In the medieval period , it was a very significant legal commonplace that full ownership of land was possible for no person save the King .
2 Farewells & A Grave With No Name by Juan Carlos Onetti tr by Peter Bush Quartet , £12.95 IT MUST be hard to be a South American novelist these days .
3 Only eat meat which has been cooked thoroughly right through i.e. brown with no trace of blood or pinkness .
4 I thought at the time : ‘ Is Sinn really conceivable with no Bedeutung at all ? ' ’
5 Having used most of it up taking shots of you , he realises that when anything happens that he should cover he 's going to look very foolish with no film in his great big camera . ’
6 Emergency admissions to residential care were unplanned with no chance of preparation for the child or of pre-placement visits by the child and his or her family .
7 A warehouseman with whom goods have been deposited is guilty of no conversion by keeping them , or restoring them to the person who deposited them with him , though that person turns out to have had no authority from the true owner . ’
8 ‘ It would be foolish and dangerous for no action to be taken to combat air pollution , ’ said their Lordships , advocating that Britain should reduce sulphur dioxide emissions by 30 per cent .
9 In ‘ grey ’ areas it would be appropriate for no fines to be levied initially , until some cases had established whether a particular practice was generally an abuse of market power .
10 A car converted to unleaded petrol can also run on leaded with no risk of damaging the engine .
11 The police makes them streetwise within no time at all , but they 're missing out on something ’ ( FN 9/8/87 , p. 3 ) .
12 It would not , they say , have abolished competition : his ‘ Grand Lodges ’ , each directing its own industry , would in effect have been the head offices of huge joint stock companies owning the entire means of production and subject to no control by the community ; and they would have been able to revert to the capitalist form of enterprise , admitting fresh generations of workers only as employees and not as shareholders ‘ thus creating at one stroke a new capitalist class and a new proletariat ’ .
13 Dreaming , dreaming always , endlessly supposing some Act of God will lift you out , make you remarkable through no effort of your own .
14 ‘ It was n't unusual for no contract to be signed — we 've worked with Selina for a long time . ’
15 The Rampton Report ( 1981 ) had used the same processes of data collection and presentation , comparing only overarching ethnic categories such as West Indian , Asian and White with no discussion of sex differences within each .
16 It 's certainly arguable that without some sort of regional structure , the UK will be increasingly disadvantaged with no way of influencing Community regional policy .
17 Most impressive of all , though , was the depth and sonority of his trumpet tone , full and rich with no hint of astringency , but with plenty of bite and muscle .
18 In otder to minimise the influence of complications from the initial bleed , patients were only considered to be eligible for entry into the trial once they were stable with no evidence of any bleeding for five days and also no evidence of any other destabilising medical conditions ( such as septicaemia and renal failure ) .
19 A technetium sulphur colloid liver spleen scan was normal with no evidence of portal hypertension or cirrhosis .
20 But the arms which seized and held Sabine were strong with no sign of weakness .
21 In terms of packaging this meant that the Macintosh came complete with no requirement to bolt cards into the box or work out how to drive unfamiliar peripherals .
22 The introduction of pensions was an official admission that the respectable and hard-working could be poor through no fault of their own .
23 I suppose they only okay your warrant if you 're late through no fault of your own . ’
24 She 's absolutely livid that she 's been freezing for no reason at all .
25 Now , almost sic years after presentation , this patient is alive and well with no signs of recurrence .
26 Examination of the chest was unremarkable with no evidence of hyperinflation and clear auscultation .
27 Next , while the endocrine specialist packed his equipment away , she poured coffee for everyone , and carefully committed Faye 's preference of black with no sugar to memory .
28 Mark thinks Babur looks great with no clothes on at all .
29 ‘ Just a minute , we 'll have you comfy in no time at all . ’
30 ( Camera pans through window to show that the front garden is green and beautiful with no industry in sight . )
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