Example sentences of "[conj] had no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of both groups either behaved badly at conferences or had no interest in improving race relations . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In many countries , prisoners were killed quickly if they refused to give information , or had no information , or had already revealed all . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Production was now centralized at Pinewood Studios , with Davis 's former personal assistant Earl St John , a one-time exhibitor , put in charge of making ‘ inexpensive films without artistic pretensions , films that had no other object than to provide good family entertainment and show a profit . ’ |
| 8 | The answer , according to Mr Michael Reich of the Harvard School of Public Health , is that the industry has been nurtured by an arm of the Japanese government that had no interest in exporting , making it a victim of government intervention . |
| 9 | Several governments that had no division between purchasers and providers are busy creating one in order to encourage managed competition . |
| 10 | ‘ Why could not an entity that had no extension be visible to us under the appearance of … extension ? ’ |
| 11 | The lips were moving , shaping words that had no sound . |
| 12 | Just as he began to fear that he was running for his life through a nightmare landscape that had no end , the ground suddenly opened to reveal the rushing waters of the beck and the section of crumbling stone wall on its other side . |
| 13 | Or perhaps no one can understand anyone : each blackbird believes that he has put into his whistle a meaning fundamental for him , but only he understands it ; the other gives him a reply that had no connection with what he said ; it is a dialogue between the deaf , a conversation without head or tail . |
| 14 | ‘ Mother Machree ’ and even if everyone hated to admit it to his face , Father Mooney sang it well , considering he was a man that had no formal training at Ingham 's . |
| 15 | There were extraordinary numbers of roads that had no signposts . |
| 16 | And to do so would produce an unhistorical abstraction that had no concrete usefulness . |
| 17 | But the look on Vanessa Delaney 's face as she watched her son edge his way through the tables was tinged with something that had no place in such a mundane event . |
| 18 | I only intended to do that first album , because it was a new label and I did n't want to sign to a label that had no track record . |
| 19 | In the strikes by cleaners and hotel workers , as well as in a recent important stoppage by Ford workers that had no coverage in the press outside Spain — the UGT ( socialist ) and CCOO ( communist ) labour federations were united . |
| 20 | McDermott said : ‘ That was an isolated and freak incident that had no connection with the team . |
| 21 | Most readers probably take it as explained by Tolkien 's preceding remark , ‘ To their man-children [ hobbits ] usually gave names that had no meaning at all in their daily language … |
| 22 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 23 | Once goods had been brought to a European port , they could be re-exported at a higher price to other European countries that had no direct trade across the sea , so a good many of the calculations about trade were concerned with re-exporting goods which had not been processed into an improved form but were simply being sent to a place where they commanded some additional scarcity value . |
| 24 | The grant was voted more because Charles ended disputes over land titles running over the previous twenty years than because the West Indians believed they ought to support the English Exchequer , but a permanent colonial contribution to the home government was — at least for England — a new and interesting departure , though one that had no sequel . |
| 25 | There were , of course , many tribes in the Midlands and south-west that had no direct contact with Caesar and this also applies to the Atrebates and the Regini on the south coast of modern Sussex and Hampshire . |
| 26 | It turned out that they had instead invested in an airline which never took off , a college that had no students , and a luxury yacht . |
| 27 | Before her mother 's house she had gone through a winter in a squat that had no heating at all . |
| 28 | He was accordingly sent to a family that had no sons . |
| 29 | A number of kinds of events describable within modern microphysics involve an indeterminacy that had no place in the Newtonian programme . |
| 30 | He gave , as a further reason , that had no request been made for a receipt , fingerprints could easily have been obtained in other ways , e.g. , by dusting the counter . |