Example sentences of "as [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Home Secretary confirm that , aside from the point of law to which he draws our attention and which will soon become sub judice , the judgment described Home Office procedures as reflecting no credit on the Home Secretary , and called the treatment of that asylum seeker a disgrace . |
| 2 | When that happens , to continue using it can be as bad as using no map at all . |
| 3 | As expected no activity was seen under similar conditions using HeLa extract instead of brain extract ( data not shown ) . |
| 4 | A Christian position must necessarily hold of this human being Jesus that he existed ( or exists ) in relation to God as has no other . |
| 5 | These he seems to have been given , or as near as made no difference . |
| 6 | Thus it came about that Joan de Warenne , as closely resembling her young mistress as made no difference , was conducted to the Tower of London — and Alianor Woodville 's apartments . |
| 7 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 8 | 3.7.4 in such a way as to cause no [ material ] obstruction to or interference with the carrying out of the Works |
| 9 | The only parts of the experimental area where there are no facilities for cyclists are in those residential streets that are sufficiently lightly and slowly trafficked as to constitute no danger to cyclists sharing the roadway with cars . |
| 10 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 11 | A statement of claim alleging those matters could not , in my view , be struck out as disclosing no cause of action . |
| 12 | Potts J. dismissed the defendants ' application to strike out the statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action . |
| 13 | Technically the appeal against the decision of Potts J. is interlocutory because decided on an application by the defendants to strike out the claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action , while the appeal against the decision of Phillips J. is a final appeal because his decision was on a question directed by consent to be tried as a preliminary issue . |
| 14 | To represent a happening as unforeseeable , however — and herein lies the explanation for the use of the infinitive with to — one must necessarily evoke a position before its occurrence : the stretch of time leading up to it must be evoked as containing no prior indication that it was going to occur . |
| 15 | But liberationists like Regan and Clive Hollands ( 1985 ) , as we saw in earlier chapters , scorn this as requiring no more than kindness towards animals ( Hollands , for example , dismissed it as ‘ a Victorian concept ’ ) and demand a great deal more . |
| 16 | Washing and dressing and also feeding were classified as requiring no supervision , supervision only , or help on at least one occasion . |
| 17 | About a third said unequivocally that they would not support the repeal , and even the doubtfuls expressed their opinions in such a way as to leave no doubt about the strength of their reservations . |
| 18 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
| 19 | Historical analysis suggests that the argument that the perspectives of dominant groups are so pervasive as to permit no alternative or popular forms of representation is untenable ( Abercrombie , Hill and Turner 1980 ) . |
| 20 | these proposals we regard as doing no more than initiating a programme of family welfare which will have to be kept under continuous review and modified and expanded in the light of experience and deeper knowledge . |
| 21 | The opposite view , that of Morgan 's contemporary , McLennan — a view derided by Morgan , Marx , and Engels — sees kinship terms as having no social significance at all . |
| 22 | John Steel Lewes was buried in the desert and is listed on the El Alamein memorial as having no known grave . |
| 23 | He would describe the Harvard men as having no meaning in life , whereas a few of the San Quentin prisoners had found meaning . |
| 24 | It also seems to be the character of the trust in personam to which a later source , the fourth-century paraphrase of Gaius from Autun , means to refer in speaking of the beneficiary of a trust of a whole estate as having no right to take possession of the estate himself but having to claim it from the heir . |
| 25 | The inexorable way in which it became directed towards , or associated with a ‘ god ’ of some sort , can be regarded as having no other significance than to be a source of evidence that without a god and religion in some form , there would be for man an intolerable vacuum in his existence . |
| 26 | Sometimes the switch contacts happen to bounce an even number of times , say 2 or 4 , and this achieves the same result as having no bounce at all ! |
| 27 | Being part of the Garrowby estate , owned by the Earl of Halifax , it is rather unusual in this day and age as having no privately owned houses or farms , other than the old rectory which was sold several years ago when the parish became part of a joint ministry . |
| 28 | As well as having no binding , the tops were flat , as opposed to the traditional carved top of the Custom and Standard ; the pickups were exposed ( no covers ) ; the necks were three-piece laminated and used ebony fingerboards ; the guitars were finished with a natural , matt cellulose lacquer . |
| 29 | Described as having no ‘ clearly defined outlines ’ , but rather ‘ a sort of opaque transparency ’ , it was VAMPIRE-like and sapped energy from the household inhabitants . |
| 30 | The Evil One is seen after St Gregory of Nazianzus as having no rights at all — on the contrary he is seen as a robber and a liar who stole the world from God and who holds humanity as captives in bondage to their own sin and his influence and power . |