Example sentences of "[conj] have 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 | Gingivitis did not increase the risk of coronary heart disease , whereas periodontitis or having no teeth increased it by about 25% . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Members of both groups either behaved badly at conferences or had no interest in improving race relations . |
| 8 | To discover what difference the action project made ( that is , whether it delayed or prevented admission to an institution ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved the physical , emotional or mental well-being of dementia sufferers or their carers ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved family relationships ; whether it increased , decreased or had no effect on people 's receipt of statutory or other voluntary services ) . |
| 9 | In many countries , prisoners were killed quickly if they refused to give information , or had no information to give … the screams of victims was unimaginable — a howl which sounded inhuman . |
| 10 | In many countries , prisoners were killed quickly if they refused to give information , or had no information , or had already revealed all . |
| 11 | Some obvious and important matters were left to one side for years because I could n't see a way forward , or had no time to do the experiments — or could n't find the funds to buy the equipment or chemicals needed . |
| 12 | But er , I never heard of them if they did and er , I mean I , I used to involve meself not in politics or anything like that is the last thing I ever thought of involving meself in but er , I did er , sort er , well being on the milk round you used to see the people in , because they come to door to bring a jug you see and you , you talk to people and you know they were , er were sensible and they were , were should I say soft or had no er conversation at all like , you know . |
| 13 | Owner-occupiers are often given no priority on local authority waiting lists , or have no access at all . |
| 14 | In any case , most laboratory mutations either die out or have no obvious effect , or merely improve the growth and manageability of the strain . |
| 15 | Some of the general practitioner contract 's requirements , such as check ups every three years and deprivation payments , either ignore the findings of research or have no supporting evidence . |
| 16 | Among excess alcohol offenders , 10% are learner drivers or riders and 11% drive whilst disqualified or have no driving licence . |
| 17 | Or have no window treatment at all except glass shelves full of plants , or plants hanging from the ceiling or from poles slung across the window . |
| 18 | Note that if there is a public sector surplus ( public-sector debt repayment or PSDR ) , this will either reduce the money supply or have no effect , depending on what the government does with the surplus . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ It is a regime of personal , family power that has no honest reason to remain , ’ he told reporters . |
| 23 | Many have scoffed at justification by faith , believing that it is a fiction only , a make-believe doctrine that has no reality in fact . |
| 24 | Problems occasionally arise when individuals consume a great deal of refined sugar , because this is fuel food that has no B vitamins at all . |
| 25 | Consider a country that has no commercial or other relations with either of two warring parties . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A local authority that has no previous experience of serving Repairs Notices can be encouraged in two ways . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |