Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen that issues of causation and blameworthiness raise problems for the courts when deciding whether the plaintiff 's conduct was sufficiently serious to deserve a reduction in his entitlement to damages , or to deserve no damages at all . |
| 2 | A petition can only be presented in respect of a debt if ( s 267(2) ) : ( i ) the amount of the debt or the aggregate of the debts is equal to or exceeds the bankruptcy level ( defined in 5267(4) as £750 but subject to change by the Secretary of State ) , ( ii ) the debt of each of the debts is for a liquidated sum payable either immediately or at some future time and is unsecured , ( iii ) the debtor appears unable to pay or to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay the debt or debts , and ( iv ) there is no outstanding application to set aside a statutory demand served under s 268 ( see section 4 ( c ) below ) . |
| 3 | The choice facing the Government is whether to take a risk with inflation by reducing interest rates in order to get the economy out of recession , or to take no risk with inflation , await a recovery in the domestic economy ( now more likely because of a lower pound and lower interest rates ) , and a decline in German interest rates , before rejoining the ERM . |
| 4 | The new rule allows them to either reduce it or to make no charge . |
| 5 | While some workers believe that the best place for a child is within a family , and that it is better for a child to be placed transracially than to have no family , anxiety is increasing about the outcome of transracial placements . |
| 6 | In areas of high unemployment many newly qualified staff are happier to have a part-time post with the knowledge that they will he offered full-time employment as posts become available , than to have no post at all . |
| 7 | He did not compromise easily , but was willing to accept less than he had hoped for rather than to make no gain at all . |
| 8 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 9 | And as if to brook no further argument , Madame Gautier took a large paper bag and emptied the entire contents of the cookie jar into it . |
| 10 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |
| 11 | The new draft allowed permanent government officials to hold Cabinet posts concurrently ; gave the NLA , which was set up by the military , the power to nominate senators ; and gave senators , along with MPs , the right to screen candidates for the premiership , and to launch no confidence motions against the government . |
| 12 | Whatever the ideological preoccupations of the Prime Minister , it is impossible for the Government to take no view and to play no role when the future of an infrastructural project with the potential impact of the Channel tunnel is in question . |
| 13 | This was felt by the Romantics to be too static , too absolute , too cut-and-dried , and to leave no place for the dynamics of discovery , the interplay of diversities , the movement from partial to fuller understanding , the connection between the inward and the outward , the whole and the part , the individual and the universal . |
| 14 | It is important to emphasise brevity and to allow no more than 20 minutes . |
| 15 | The people of Northern Ireland and , indeed , of Britain and the Republic expect their constitutional politicians to put aside their differences in pursuit of a peaceful political solution and to raise no false obstacles to sitting down to discuss matters among themselves . |
| 16 | ‘ And to think no one uses it ! |
| 17 | First Joshua and Caleb , two of those sent as spies into Canaan , try to persuade the people to trust in God 's protection and to have no fear . |
| 18 | Should teachers at school , like professors at university , be expected in the future simply to teach academic or practical subjects to their pupils , and to have no general pastoral or moral responsibility for them ? |
| 19 | As for differences between Ipswich and Newham , Table 4.4 indicates that in Newham people in poorer home care circumstances ( in both action and control samples ) are remaining at home compared with Ipswich ; in particular they are more likely to suffer from persistent wandering , to live alone , and to have no closely involved informal carer . |
| 20 | To be confronted with modern science , and to have no route into it , is an awesome affront to human dignity , just as the transistor radio is an affront to many an ancient faith . |
| 21 | To be alone is one thing , but to be alone and to have no means at all of shattering the shell of silence around you to summon the comforting sound of a human voice is quite another . |
| 22 | The group discussions showed that Asians tended to be well informed about credit — at least as well as white people generally — and to have no real difficulties in using it . |
| 23 | To leave self behind means to put oneself last in all things ; to have no care about one 's life , position or esteem ; and to have no desire for rights or privileges except that of belonging to God . |
| 24 | There are , as Mr Moynihan points out , only seven countries in the world that can claim both to be homogeneous and to have no border problems . |
| 25 | A lady who lived in family with her father , whose housekeeper she was , in the house which he owned and occupied , was held not to be an occupier for the purposes of the corresponding provision of the 1959 Act , s.36 , and to have no title to object to an application . |
| 26 | Vanished was the cold , proud and arrogant leader ; in his place was " virtually a broken man " The Shah seemed traumatized and to have no plans . |
| 27 | Then is sometimes claimed to be necessarily anaphoric in nature , and to have no gestural deictic usage , but rather complex usages show this is not so — consider , for example , the following said pointing at a 1962 model Chevrolet ( Nunberg , 1978 : 33 ) ) : ( 55 ) I was just a kid then As an initial step towards seeing how time deixis interacts with cultural measurements of time in an absolute or non-deictic way , consider words like today , tomorrow , yesterday . |
| 28 | We all know that the task we 've set the officers is to manage within the budgets they 've been given , and to have no cuts in services , and no compulsory redundancies , and thi this is their challenge and this is what they seem to be achieving , and I think we should applaud them for that . |
| 29 | In the first case , they are held to reflect or express social realities external to them and to need no further analysis than that . |
| 30 | To spend her days reading and writing and finding out more and talking to people , and to spend no time at all trying to outwit awful people like Mother Clare . |