Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 2 | If an individual appears unable to pay his debts or has no reasonable prospect of paying he may also face a bankruptcy petition . |
| 3 | What is required of the student is the capacity to identify with English : " Unless an undergraduate can identify himself in some sense with the subject he is studying , he is either reading the wrong School , or has no business to be at university at all . |
| 4 | A similarly high proportion end in a swift judgment because the defendant is in default or has no real defence . |
| 5 | Toxic chemicals are assigned a ‘ no observed effect level ’ , a dosage that produces no apparent harm in a certain percentage of lab animals . |
| 6 | A goat that produces no kids is an evolutionary failure . |
| 7 | Will my right hon. Friend explain to a simple fellow like me why it is considered sensible to return to a system of socialist taxation based on the capital value of an asset that produces no income and that is unrelated to the services for which the occupant is paying and to the income of the occupant , this asset being normally called a home ? |
| 8 | To arrive at a salary that produces no income tax liability above the 25% rate , account has to be taken of the revised reliefs to set against the salary . |
| 9 | Wharfe is a quiet little community that offers no inducements to passersby to disturb its tranquillity . |
| 10 | You may be wondering what this add-in with a name that offers no clues does — it is a database add-in that extends SuperCalc 's existing database facilities to include an easy to use entry form , record storage on disk and even relational databases . |
| 11 | By enmeshing two sets of grooves , films can be made to stick together , providing a re-usable airtight seal that needs no adhesive . |
| 12 | It 's an assertion that needs no lengthy qualification when you look at the Twingo , Renault 's hugely characterful and versatile Clio alternative . |
| 13 | A new self-charging security light that needs no mains electricity will be welcomed by anyone who is put off installing outside lights by the difficulty of wiring the unit . |
| 14 | Here Hilton is more concerned with advising formal patterns of prayer which may help the recluse towards the ability to meditate , though all the time his description of the exercise of spoken prayer is informed by an excited awareness of a form that needs no words in its joyful and peaceful awareness of God . |
| 15 | The recipe here is for a simple marzipan that needs no cooking . |
| 16 | And do n't let your search for material lead you to choose the obscure for obscurity 's sake , so you feel you will be sure to stun the panel with a piece that has no good professional background . |
| 17 | We are so used to hearing talk about the nervous system ‘ encoding ’ the outside world that it is easy to forget that this is a metaphor and it is one that has no place in serious philosophical discussion of the mind-body problem or the philosophy of perception . |
| 18 | Good gossip must have an esential core of truth to it , and a dose of compassion , concern or at least good humour attached ; it is bad gossip that has no basis in fact , that is driven obviously and primarily by maliciousness . |
| 19 | ‘ It is a regime of personal , family power that has no honest reason to remain , ’ he told reporters . |
| 20 | Many have scoffed at justification by faith , believing that it is a fiction only , a make-believe doctrine that has no reality in fact . |
| 21 | Problems occasionally arise when individuals consume a great deal of refined sugar , because this is fuel food that has no B vitamins at all . |
| 22 | Consider a country that has no commercial or other relations with either of two warring parties . |
| 23 | By the end of the race he had lost nearly two stone from a frame that has no spare fat , and it took him a week to start eating properly again and a further three weeks to regain the lost weight . |
| 24 | A local authority that has no previous experience of serving Repairs Notices can be encouraged in two ways . |
| 25 | We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure , disinterested altruism — something that has no place in nature , something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world . |
| 26 | The ribbon of tarmac goes on to the lonely outpost of Leck Fell House , a speck of civilisation in a wide panorama that has no other sign of life . |
| 27 | Even experienced report writers often find that their thoughts have rushed ahead of them and there is the occasional sentence that has no relationship to the rest . |
| 28 | Or , of course , it might simply be a habit the person has acquired that has no particular significance . |
| 29 | Any one of these moves suffices to give lots of simple changes by means of a process that in group theory is called conjugation , though it is really a general problem solving technique that has no general name . |
| 30 | An event takes place on May Day at Ilkley that has no connection with tree spirits , water spirits or indeed any springtime rites or festivals . |