Example sentences of "with no [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above Phyllograptus , a graptolite colony with no means of attachment . |
| 2 | Imagine two criminals , partners in crime , who are arrested and placed in separate cells with no means of communication . |
| 3 | The young man , with no means of meeting the acceptance when it came due , took fright and told the whole story to J.W. who told his father who , on the advice of his solicitor , consented to pay back the borrowed £150 with interest at five per cent per annum , and to return the trumpery jewellery which luckily his son had considered too worthless to sell . |
| 4 | Now , I laid into the JMP-1 for having but a single input on the front , with no means of connection to the back of the unit ; the TriAxis has the input to the rear , with no input on the front ! |
| 5 | Many hundreds of years ago all Orcs were savages with no means of manufacturing metal weapons , armour and war machines . |
| 6 | The challenge of the burgesses paved the way for the eventual emergence of a large class of landless labourers with no means of livelihood other than the sale of their labour for a wage ; this was , therefore , one of the conditions for the development of capitalism . |
| 7 | Unarmed and with no means of escape . |
| 8 | If we allow the King 's Cross Railways Bill to proceed and in the end no high-speed link or underground link between Stratford and King 's Cross is built , we shall be left with an enormous white elephant at King 's Cross with no means of getting to it from the channel tunnel . |
| 9 | It was academic anyway , for just then another ominous rumble of collapsing masonry shook the foundations , peppering him with flakes of plaster from the ceiling and driving home the fact that he was trapped , with no means of escape . |
| 10 | With the parties arrayed against him and no Gaullist movement to counter them , he was left with no means of influencing the constitutional debate in a positive direction . |