Example sentences of "[conj] having no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gingivitis did not increase the risk of coronary heart disease , whereas periodontitis or having no teeth increased it by about 25% . |
| 2 | There 's nothing worse in life than having no choice , I think . |
| 3 | When one finds a sympathetic platform from which to display an idea , many more ideas are stimulated which , although having no sympathetic platform , may be strong enough to create their own . |
| 4 | It may be that having no windows on the ground floor was a simple security feature , a precaution against burglary . |
| 5 | People say that having no children was/is a blessing . |
| 6 | One of the commonest problems of bereavement is that of feeling isolated and alone and having no one to turn to . |
| 7 | a metabolite of restricted taxonomic distribution and having no obvious metabolic function . |
| 8 | Fortunately she returned to the clinic the following day and having no milk they showed her how to make a supplementary feed but it was too late and the baby died . |
| 9 | Poverty always spells weakness , vulnerability , humiliation , and having no prospects for improvement . |
| 10 | After all there must be something more to life than sleeping in a garden shed and having no money and nobody who cared twopence whether you were alive or dead ( not after the competition , anyway — Nutty at least needed him till then ) but what it was Nails could not fathom . |
| 11 | It is the task in front of humanity to arrive at a definition for all controversial acts and to set a value on them ; acts decided as ‘ good ’ contributing to the Godhead , acts decided as ‘ evil ’ detracting there from , and acts of an innocuous nature as ‘ neutral ’ — , and having no effect . |
| 12 | It was true enough and my mother 's only response was to criticize the Swans for getting married and having no children because they were selfish . |
| 13 | One man was imprisoned for three years for possessing the gun and one for one year ( suspended for two years ) for stealing a car and having no insurance . |
| 14 | A 20-year-old man was charged last night with causing death by dangerous driving , failing to supply a specimen of blood or urine and having no insurance or MOT . |
| 15 | Two youths will appear at Sutton Coldfield Youth Court , West Midlands , today accused of aggravated vehicle taking , allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle and having no insurance . |
| 16 | Renting out the family home while working abroad on contract may not be particularly appealing ; but selling it and having no stake in the home housing market on returning at the end of the contract is by no means an ideal solution . |
| 17 | However , in 1938 the ‘ Britons fight for Britain only ’ and ‘ Mosley and Peace ’ campaigns , although based on assumptions different from the government 's appeasement policies and having no influence upon them , nevertheless harmonized quite well with the general drift of public opinion with regard to European intervention and the threat of war . |
| 18 | Significant positive correlations were found between the rate of known opioid use and each of seven indicators of social deprivation ( in both the general and youth populations ) , namely : unemployment , council tenancies , overcrowding , large families , single-parent households , an unskilled labour force , and having no access to a car ( see Parker et al . |
| 19 | It was found that 599 ( 56 per cent ) were classifiable as ‘ new cases ’ , that is , as not being known to any of the agencies in the first survey , and having no known first contact date with an agency prior to April 1985 . |
| 20 | This applies , for example , to an action brought by a French plaintiff in the Paris court against a company incorporated in the United States and having no place of business in France ; the proceedings do not have to be based on any of the grounds for jurisdiction elaborated in the Convention . |
| 21 | The defendants in an English action wished to inspect documents of admitted relevance to the subject-matter of the case ( which involved a series of reinsurance contracts ) in the possession of a company not itself a party to the litigation and having no place of business in England ; the documents were situated in the State of Washington . |
| 22 | The judges of the Court of Appeal , by contrast , took the view that the proceedings before Barnett J. , being concerned only to review the order of Judge Cameron and having no independent existence of their own , took their character from the entirely criminal nature of that order . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not good being a wealthy man and having no one to spend one 's money on , you know . ’ |
| 24 | Working hard for no pay , never getting a day off and having no financial independence are the most common complaints . |
| 25 | The owner subsequently found out his customer 's identity , and having no doubt as to the use to which his vessel would be put , informed the British Customs . |
| 26 | Prince Dara was a man of dignified manners , of a comely countenance , polite in conversation , ready and gracious of speech , of extraordinary liberality , kindly and compassion ate , but over-confident in his opinion of himself , considering himself competent in all things and having no need of advisers . |
| 27 | She remembered the coach ride , and having no one to sit next to because Mandy was ill . |
| 28 | There is no point in just having money , spending it and having no regard to where it goes . |
| 29 | Agreements not infrequently will provide that the mere fact of the presentation of a petition for a bankruptcy order by a creditor , or a partner applying for an interim order under s253 of the Insolvency Act 1986 , or a partner entering into a compromise for the benefit of his creditors generally , or even the circumstance of a partner being unable and having no reasonable prospect of being able to pay his debts , should make the power exercisable . |
| 30 | JOHN Joseph McGinn , 31 , of Hillside Avenue , Huyton , was jailed for 120 days by Wirral magistrates after admitting driving while disqualified at Wallasey , having consumed excess alcohol and having no insurance . |