Example sentences of "there [verb] [be] no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — the government will find it hard to sustain that again , when there has been no army in the field against them — no pitched battles — no weapons , even . |
| 2 | There has been no excavation to prove it , but it looks as though the concrete track foundations were carried through to solid ground , as were the main foundations at the upper part of the incline . |
| 3 | The grand mean direction is statistically indistinguishable from the three Miocene reference directions , suggesting that there has been no footwall tilting . |
| 4 | But there has been no sign from Kabul that President Najibullah is at all in favour of the proposal . |
| 5 | But there has been no sign of panic flight as they remain convinced that they can still leave Libya by road , albeit at the cost of a 12-hour drive through the desert . |
| 6 | The French have just joined Russia in declaring that they will temporarily halt testing ; Boris Yeltsin could be under pressure to rescind Russia 's test ban in September if there has been no sign of flexibility from Britain and the US . |
| 7 | And there has been no sign of a renewed bid for Malmo 's Swedish international Patrick Andersson , who walked out of Elland Road after refusing terms two weeks ago . |
| 8 | There has been no sign of a radical consensus . |
| 9 | ‘ We have been out searching , but there has been no sign of him . |
| 10 | There has been no word of apology or interest paid on money retained . |
| 11 | A layer high in the sequence will have been deposited later than a lower one , and , provided there has been no disturbance , the artefacts in the higher level will be younger than those underlying . |
| 12 | Of course if you are against it in principle , that is an end of it ( and there has been no beginning ) . |
| 13 | There has been no chromosome work in Shetland ( nor investigations of the " teeth " ) , but the shell-shape data strongly suggest a meeting of two factions-in some places the enclaves show the full " normal " range of variation : in others , only a few miles away , they do not . |
| 14 | The buildings are the same as they were one hundred years ago ; there has been no development on this block . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , there has been no money for the activities of the East Europe sub-group , which was to have built on the Presidential visits of the previous year . |
| 16 | No " PD Form " will be required as there has been no conveyance or transfer on sale . |
| 17 | It was crucial to the consistency of the work that it should not conclude : the narrator simply states that ‘ there has been no decision except that I 'm moving on ’ ( Wurlitzer 1969 : 161 ) . |
| 18 | But like you , he has been talking to my shipping office in Monaco and learns that there has been no communication for four days . |
| 19 | Thus the subsection therefore covers the situation where the communication is merely in the form of : ‘ buy , ( or sell ) X Company shares ’ ( ie. where there has been no communication of unpublished price sensitive information ) . |
| 20 | They have not shrunk from setting aside gifts made to persons in a position to exercise undue influence over the donors , although there has been no proof of the actual exercise of such influence ; and the courts have done this on the avowed ground of the necessity of going this length in order to protect persons from the exercise of such influence under circumstances which render proof of it impossible . |
| 21 | For if their own equilibrium price rises by 10 per cent and the average of all other prices rises by 10 per cent too , then they will not increase output because they know that there has been no increase in the relative price of the good on their island . |
| 22 | This means that members in the Republic of Ireland who are over twenty five years of age and have more than a three year no claim bonus have had no increase in premium for over three years and for all other policyholder there has been no increase for over two years . |
| 23 | ‘ That is a little unfair when you consider there are 5,000 family area places where there has been no increase . |
| 24 | Perhaps the only glimmer of hope is that there has been no increase in the use of heroin , cocaine and crack just 1.2pc admit to trying them , the same as in 1990 . |
| 25 | Often there has been no concern at all that perhaps more can be expected educationally of the new Agreed Syllabuses . |
| 26 | Three years later one of Brodhurst 's successors , commenting on another increase over the previous year , noted that ‘ there has been no return to the systematic trade in stolen cattle . ’ |
| 27 | Researchers are trying to develop ways of recognising domesticated pulses , eg rye , peas and chickpeas , which were very important in ancient nutrition , but up to now there has been no technique that readily identifies them . |
| 28 | There has been no lack of international protest . |
| 29 | In 1990 he began work at Bryn Colwyn , and despite the recession there has been no lack of buyers . |
| 30 | Naturally this only applies where there has been no illness or injury which would cause dramatic loss of functioning . |