Example sentences of "[conj] make no " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the limited company has vacated its registered office and/or made no arrangements for forwarding post does not affect the validity of service . |
| 2 | I make no apology or make no bones about being partisan . |
| 3 | The new rule allows them to either reduce it or to make no charge . |
| 4 | Then more words about his own father who had taken his own life , then retracting words , self-hating words , words weaving webs around his own egotism , then words that made no sense to the listener , words he himself was unaware of uttering as the tears wiped out reason . |
| 5 | They could laugh at the absurdities of life and people that made no sense to those who had n't lived in Ireland . |
| 6 | How did the news media , scientists and governments take on board a claim that made no sense within the laws of physics , was based in part on wrong data and that was shown to be flawed within days of the announcement ? |
| 7 | As cricket chairman , I was left to carry the can for a move that made no sense and was none of my doing . |
| 8 | They were still neat , aligned and stacked precisely , even to the point of pedantry , they were in perfect order , only it was an order that made no sense whatsoever , an order in which Flavia had not left them . |
| 9 | It provided for a ‘ union of sovereign republics ’ , not necessarily of socialist ones ; the Congress of People 's Deputies , in December , had agreed not to change the name of the state , but there was still some criticism that the world 's first socialist state had somehow disappeared with the promulgation of a union treaty that made no reference to its social character . |
| 10 | A movement that made no deals , no compromises . |
| 11 | The courses were Linguistics-based and were designed to be professionally relevant in a broad sense , though they included much that made no claim to immediate practical usefulness . |
| 12 | She had just emerged to frown at the Manport , wearing a plain dark coverall that made no concession to dressing up for important company . |
| 13 | It was a standard opening — the kind of play that made no real difference to the final outcome — yet somehow the boy made it seem a challenge . |
| 14 | We talked about how Morris Marinas make the wrong noises , Fiat Stradas make the right noises and Triumph Heralds that make no noise at all because the big end is buggered . |
| 15 | There are schools that have extensive stage and lighting equipment that make no use of drama in the curriculum . |
| 16 | The most terrifying ants of all are those that make no nest but wander through the countryside seeking prey . |
| 17 | It is not only that the social range of fiction becomes much more inclusive , allowing the writer to explore interiors that make no claim to architecture , but that living space itself develops individual character . |
| 18 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |
| 19 | The court must therefore be satisfied that the order will positively contribute to the child 's welfare and must not make an order unless it considers that doing so would be better for the child than making no order at all . |
| 20 | By section 1(3) of the Act of 1989 Parliament has required a court exercising this jurisdiction to have regard to a number of considerations and by subsection ( 5 ) has directed the court to make no order , notwithstanding an agreement between the parties , unless it considers that doing so would be better for the child than making no order at all . |
| 21 | This is because s1(5) of the Children Act precludes the court from making an order unless it considers that this would be better for the child than making no order at all . |
| 22 | ( c ) Presumption of no order The court can not make an order under the Act unless it considers that this would be better for the child than making no order at all ( s1(5) ) . |
| 23 | He did not compromise easily , but was willing to accept less than he had hoped for rather than to make no gain at all . |
| 24 | The quality of a line , hard or soft , lost and found , can be merely recording the random movement of , say , a pencil point that makes no conscious claim upon area . |
| 25 | As a sharp contrast , the Beethoven Septet is pure entertainment , music that makes no attempt to grapple with more complex emotional issues . |
| 26 | What is surprising is that their refusal to read black texts — a refusal that makes no disturbance in their intellectual life — repeats itself when they reread the traditional , established works of literature worthy of their attention . |
| 27 | The circulating system wanders a little closer , deepens , is classified under a new title — a moderate tropical storm — and is given a name , Agnes perhaps , or Bob , an innocent , unassuming , rather cosy , old-fashioned sort of name that makes no connection in anybody 's mind with a swirling mass of warm air and piled clouds that is bearing down on the coast , thunder and lightning flickering from its belly , the waves beneath it being whipped up into a fury . |
| 28 | Must not all such thinking souls be growing hideously weary with this long contention that makes no progress , that wastes men and harvests and the very wellbeing of the land ? |
| 29 | The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demand for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity : it affords protection to all beings , offering shade even to the axeman who destroys it . |
| 30 | He says he 's got loss of memory , without a stroke , I have that as well , so that makes no difference . |