Example sentences of "[conj] made 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | They could laugh at the absurdities of life and people that made no sense to those who had n't lived in Ireland . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | As cricket chairman , I was left to carry the can for a move that made no sense and was none of my doing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A movement that made no deals , no compromises . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had just emerged to frown at the Manport , wearing a plain dark coverall that made no concession to dressing up for important company . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Inventing farfetched excuses , she left me trapped in her flat and made no attempt to help me look for work . |
| 13 | To make matters worse , Newsweek said that ‘ Giuliani joined in the nervous laughter ’ and made no attempt to rebuke Mr Mason . |
| 14 | As to the wider dissemination of culture , the few cells that had been active in this respect seemed to equate success with the regular dispatch of newspapers and made no personal contacts to follow this up . |
| 15 | The third congress of journalists which met at the end of January simply stressed the importance of party leadership of the press and made no practical survey of what was actually happening . |
| 16 | The Cambridge deputy orator of 1957 commended him for his ecumenical work , and as the tireless pastor of the northern province , and made no mention of his academic originality — perhaps the ghost of Bethune-Baker still peeped through a window of the Senate House . |
| 17 | The child took no notice and made no sound when her father slapped one arm and yanked her up by the other . |
| 18 | She had no expectations and made no demands . |
| 19 | There was a wonderfully prejudiced guide book , which referred to Protestant bishops as ‘ pseudo-bishops ’ and made no mention of the rival establishment next door . |
| 20 | They all spent time reassuring Fiona until the worst of the worry unwound from her body and I watched the movement of her silver-blond hair in the soft lights and made no attempt to throw doubts because it would have achieved nothing good . |
| 21 | It is significant that the insurgent peasants of Essex in 1381 demanded the abolition of the hunting privileges of the landowners , and made no mention of the Forest laws of the Crown . |
| 22 | McAteer could not remember having been struck there and made no claim as to how the injury had been caused . |
| 23 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 24 | The committee recognised that both ‘ f ’ and ‘ ph ’ spellings were widely used in English texts and made no specific recommendation . |
| 25 | In the case of unskilled labour , Bray criticized the assumption that it required no training and made no demand on ‘ skill ’ : this was ‘ a grave mistake ’ . |
| 26 | The other girls disliked her for her outstanding looks and her haughty ways and made no attempt to be friendly on anything but the most superficial level and the pattern cutters and sewing hands hurried home to their families and boyfriends the moment they finished their long day 's work . |
| 27 | When they stepped out on to the track some twenty paces from him he only turned his head slowly to glance at them and made no other movement . |
| 28 | An excellent soldier , Astorre simply accepted the prospect of a night ride to Sigouri , and made no bones about his employer 's decision that , against the King 's wishes , an assault was to be made . |
| 29 | The fallen man lay in the ditch , black upon black , and made no sound . |
| 30 | The Labour Party in Haringey was terrified of the electoral implications of splits in the black communities , and made no statement at all about the increasing intimidation experienced by black lesbians and gays in this period . |