Example sentences of "no [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the indicators of ‘ success ’ are clearly critical , yet there are no uniformly agreed objectives . |
| 2 | Official regulation of headhunting in Britain , in contrast with the USA , has not been developed and no widely accepted written body of rules exists . |
| 3 | How could the Soviet system — and after it , the Commonwealth — function if there was no widely understood common language ? |
| 4 | If there is a vacuum of this kind , far from the field being clear for political decision-taking ( as Ramsay Muir suggests ) , the minister is lost because there are no properly prepared and documented alternatives from which he can choose . |
| 5 | This plan was no sloppily organized affair , aware as we were of the lengths to which threatened men will go to protect their most prized territory . |
| 6 | Sadly , despite a lot of research , there is little or no clear cut evidence of an objective kind which can supply an answer to all of these questions . |
| 7 | There are no clear cut threshold speeds at which damage can be guaranteed to occur . |
| 8 | The false pretence ( or ‘ deception , ’ to use the new term ) was no long confined to pretence about an existing fact and no longer excluded a misrepresentation as to the offender 's intention . |
| 9 | The history of jazz and rock is no less littered with tragic deaths , breakdowns and martyrdoms — from six Beiderbecke and Charlie Parker to John Lennon , Janis Joplin and Sid Vicious — than that of the mainstream modernist arts . |
| 10 | Often though they proceed to deal seriously enough , as blindly hooked as punters , and no less destined for disillusionment . |
| 11 | The wife is no less entitled to share in the family income just because she has assumed responsibilities in the ‘ non-profit ’ segment . |
| 12 | It could be argued that in societies where the capitalist ethos is paramount the criminal is no less entitled to gain commercial advantage from his or her lawful activity than any other member of the community and that it should be the market which decides whether or not criminals should profit . |
| 13 | The breach of the special trust that exists between a child and a parent is no less violated where sexual acts other than vaginal penetration are induced or performed . |
| 14 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
| 15 | They were no less enthused when Mr Rice put up some film of seriously ordinary people , the sort of folk the average celebrity sees across a crash barrier . |
| 16 | It is now possible to investigate whether it is ‘ just ’ extra DNA sequence , with no apparently defined hypersensitive sites , which leads to position-independent expression of the transgene by designing a minimal ‘ Long ’ construct containing only the defined DH sites ( experiments in progress ) . |
| 17 | These skills are perhaps no better illustrated than by the finds from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo . |
| 18 | They were no better prepared for what followed . |
| 19 | Tomorrow I will be a student again , but no better fed . |
| 20 | The winner of this year 's Avia Foursomes and the amateur medal at the British Women 's Open at Ferndown , the undeniably gifted Cheshire golfer was distressed to find that she was no better placed than second reserve for England in the Home Internationals and , further , that she was not given a place on the " B " team sent to Italy . |
| 21 | ‘ Far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves … no slave is a slave to the same lengths and in so full a sense of the word as a wife is [ for her husband ] can claim from her and enforce the lowest degradation of a human being , that of being made the instrument of an animal function contrary to her inclinations . ’ |
| 22 | By the time she and the Prince were engaged two years later , she was still no better educated . |
| 23 | This was no better reflected than in his creation of A Distant Drummer with its horrific theme of man 's inhumanity to man , where ritual warlike movements were applied to the jack-booted soldiers of Nazi Germany . |
| 24 | Maybe the Sovtelexport agency is no better supplied these days than Russia 's food shops . |
| 25 | He soon discovered that the Czechs were no better organised . |
| 26 | There were no separately managed service industries other than those dictated by the core business such as agriculture and manufacturing . |
| 27 | said that that there was no generally accepted international meaning of the phrase ; he recognised that in some jurisdictions , public law matters were regarded as outside the categories of civil and commercial , but that this was not universally the case ; he , but not the other members of the court , felt that there was insufficient evidence as to the approach of Norwegian law , but was prepared to give the request the benefit of the doubt . |
| 28 | There is no generally accepted optimal culture medium and different laboratories have adopted slightly different formulations to give developmental rates comparable with in vivo growth . |
| 29 | There is no generally recognized date marking the end of our imperial era . |
| 30 | That there is no generally recognized familistic unit other than the nuclear family . |