Example sentences of "[conj] give no " in BNC.
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| 1 | either the fish is completely exhausted or given no time to gather its power , for I direct it straight to my landing net and it slips inside quite easily . |
| 2 | They did not understand , or gave no thought to , the ethnic , national and ideological conflicts that their arrangements would create within Germany , nor the internal and external targets Germany would come to identify as the causes of its misfortune . |
| 3 | He also asserts , although giving no evidence for the claim , that ‘ the delinquent 's girl is a force for conforming behaviour , as opposed to acting as provocateur for delinquent activity ’ . |
| 4 | On balance , provincial brokers seem to offer more of their time , although giving no higher quality advice than their London rivals . |
| 5 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain . |
| 6 | They suspect that because they are not really wanted , they are put into estates , overcharged in the shops and given no recreational or community facilities . |
| 7 | Commission officials , however , have argued that if given no alternative , fishermen will carry on fishing until there are no fish stocks left . |
| 8 | Succeeding against challenge is part of the satisfaction — if a rose were to grow perfect blooms every time without problems , that would be too easy and give no sense of achievement . |
| 9 | Mr Prescott , who plans to table amendments to the airport security bill , said Mr Parkinson was paying lip service to screening and giving no indication when this would be achieved . |
| 10 | The clutch itself , though typically abrupt , did n't slip at all and gave no cause for concern during the drive . |
| 11 | Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes . |
| 12 | They even searched between the sheets and under the mattresses , and gave no answer when she asked what they were looking for . |
| 13 | He seemed so relaxed and gave no hint that anything was wrong . ’ |
| 14 | She expected and gave no kindness , no tenderness at all . |
| 15 | He listened and gave no sign . |
| 16 | Since Spittals sat behind his desk with a smile of ineffable self-satisfaction and gave no indication of offering an explanation , the policewoman asked for one . |
| 17 | This , like all his other books , was written under the pseudonym Ernest Bramah , and gave no clues to his personal life . |
| 18 | But he only looked at her blankly , and gave no rueful half-smile in collusion . |
| 19 | Once on board the animals were pathetically docile and gave no more trouble . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll make sure that I 'll bring her back in one piece , ’ André was saying , but Piers had turned away and gave no indication of having heard what was being said to him . |
| 21 | She contained it and gave no sign , for she was enlarged , as the night is by the moon . |
| 22 | They looked upon him and gave no sign . |
| 23 | A boy or girl who appears to be rejecting parental values may be developing in a more healthy and normal way than one who follows the parent 's party line and gives no trouble . |
| 24 | The Midland offers a similar arrangement using a Number Two current account , but charges £15 a quarter , plus interest at 26.7% APR when you 're overdrawn , and gives no credit interest . |
| 25 | The adversarial system of procedure currently in use confines the judge to a passive umpiring role and gives no real scope for the gathering of evidence which the parties do not wish to present . |
| 26 | Expressing such a duty as a duty to further the interests of the enterprise is unhelpful , however , since the formulation has very limited information content : it fails to identify the relevant constituencies and gives no indication of what priority should be afforded to them inter se . |
| 27 | Also some ratios are fairly crude eg Index of Labour Turnover , which shows the position in gross terms and gives no indication as to whether turnover is spread throughout the organization or is heavily concentrated in one department or in one occupation . |
| 28 | Thus , the presence of solifluxion on a raised beach means that it must precede one glaciation , but this merely fixes its age as pre-last glaciation and gives no indication of how many glaciations have passed since the beach was formed . |
| 29 | Then there is the darker , unintelligible fire of the inferno , which burns and gives no light . ’ |
| 30 | To the outsider it appears that when change of any kind is required , the NHS is so structured as to resemble a " mobile " : designed to move with any breath of air , but which in fact never changes its position and gives no clear indication of direction . |