Example sentences of "and [prep] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I passed at this point MacArthur said perhaps I would like to hear his summary as a soldier and as no businessman or textile expert . |
| 2 | A report commissioned by the World Bank on the Narmada Dam in India concludes that the environmental impacts of the project have not been adequately addressed , and as no fair resettlement of the 250,000 tribal people is possible , World Bank funding should be suspended . |
| 3 | There has to be a time , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , laying down the pen , began to type again , there has to be a time when excuses are no longer necessary , will never again be necessary , there has to be such a time in everybody 's life , when too soon and too late no longer mean anything , a time , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , when one starts because one starts and for no other reason . |
| 4 | After an hour , and for no comprehensible reason , the police removed their cordon . |
| 5 | And for no better reason than that it might be ‘ time for a change ’ ? |
| 6 | The Austrian Empire , the Russian Empire , the French Republic , ‘ poor little Belgium ’ , everybody fought for the privilege of committing social and collective suicide on a spectacular scale , and for no particular reason . |
| 7 | Once in Montrose , Colorado , when he was on location for a small role in John Wayne 's True Grit , he was standing in a bar , scruffy and long-haired , and for no reason at all , one of the locals took a swing at him . |
| 8 | When I was at school in the seventies , one afternoon every week throughout the winter term , I put on a pair of ill-fitting plimsolls and plodded miserably , and for no apparent reason , around the wet pavements of a Sussex market town . |
| 9 | They said hello cheerily as we passed , and for no particular reason other than mindless banter I concluded our exchange with some hopeless attempt at humour , which happily has been blacked from my memory . |
| 10 | He slept very lightly ( awakening at the slightest sound ) and for no more than six hours a night ( if his parents were lucky ) . |
| 11 | Much everyday reasoning about causes , however , seems to demand perfect relationships : ‘ Smoking does n't cause lung cancer ; the man next door to us got lung cancer and he had never smoked a cigarette in his life ’ , implying that the only cast-iron proof would be for all smokers to get lung cancer and for no non-smokers to get |
| 12 | ‘ The premises shall be used for … and for no other purpose including any purpose in class … of the Schedule to the Town and Country ( Use Classes ) Order 1972 ’ . |
| 13 | Talbot , J. in that case was required to decide the validity of a condition imposed on a grant of planning permission to use part of the ground floor of certain premises as ‘ an employment agency and for no other use . ’ |
| 14 | Cat owners often notice that their pet will suddenly and for no apparent reason make a headlong dash through the house . |
| 15 | A very gallant gentleman at the next table came over and for no particular reason , kissed my hand ! |
| 16 | At times Rubberneck wept , shed , and for no apparent reason , bucketing tears in dreadful fits of sadness . |
| 17 | This time , and for no apparent reason , the grip of a woman by the hair of her head . |
| 18 | ‘ I think he 's best avoided , ’ Ellen said in an unexpectedly sober voice , and suddenly , and for no particular reason on a very warm night , we both shivered . |
| 19 | Frequently and for no apparent reason , there would be a chilling burst of wind and a roar as of a passing train . |
| 20 | I often sleep in my coat , ’ he backed away from her , all the way towards the door ; then on the landing , and for no reason that he could give to himself , he turned and ran not towards his bedroom but across the landing , over the gallery , down the stairs , through the hall to the front door . |
| 21 | The lobster cocktail was plentiful but a touch cotton-woolly in texture , and for no visible reason arrived on a plate . |
| 22 | She liked Clara because Clara was bright , and for no other reason : she had no need to like her for any other reason , as she was well equipped with a busy social life and a lover . |
| 23 | The rejoinder by the defendant to this pleading alleged that the notes were given by Samuel Revill and himself as sureties and were given for the securing of part of the father 's debt and for no other consideration or purpose . |
| 24 | In both conditions the fear is qualitatively different from normal anxiety , has sudden onset , and occurs without warning and for no apparent reason . |
| 25 | ( Rapidly ) Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you have n't the faintest idea how to spell the word — " wife " — or " house " — because when you write it down you just ca n't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before … ? |
| 26 | The messenger ambled out and for no good reason everybody stopped talking until they heard the lock click . |
| 27 | The path was stony ; that was why she let him hold on to her , and for no other reason . |
| 28 | That 's why you 're getting a lift and for no other reason . |
| 29 | There are some gaps in the surviving records , but for no earlier period , and for no later period before the nineteenth century , can the social fabric of the capital be charted in such a comprehensive way . |
| 30 | This is the motion that says that the Apex conference would be able to debate issues of a general nature which are appropriate for this Congress , the decision making body of the union and for no other conference in the union . |