Example sentences of "at [noun] no " in BNC.

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1 As the campaign progressed , his rallies became increasingly visionary and evangelical as he narrowed his eyes and gazed at horizons no one else could see .
2 Mr Clarke said that at present no one in the service had any particular incentive to reduce waiting lists .
3 It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against the consequences of an attack with nuclear weapons .
4 The 1957 government White Paper on Defence baldly admitted : ‘ It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against nuclear attack . ’
5 They stressed that at present no test is available which will predict accurately anyone at risk of a heart attack .
6 Professor Hugh Miller , also from Aberdeen University and who had advised on the Commission 's 1984 paper which questioned the link between acidity and fish losses , wrote that ‘ there is at present no evidence of damage ’ and ‘ When worried about the health of our trees it would seem preferable to heed qualified forest pathologists rather than respond to assorted ecologists and conservationists , no matter what their nationality . ’
7 As there is no identifiable physical handicap present , and its causes remain obscure , there is at present no method of preventing the birth of an autistic child .
8 There is at present no effective form of protection for landscape parks .
9 The Commission argues that there is at present no monitoring of environmental quality and trends on a European scale , nor any guarantee that the results of environmental monitoring will be comparable on a Community-wide basis ( a realization brought about through the CORINE programme described later ) .
10 At present no capacity for tritium handling exists in Europe outside the defence community ( Britain manufactures tritium for the defence programme at Chapelcross , Dumfries ) .
11 To forestall any immediate and hasty rejection of the foregoing method of assessment of the value of human virtue by the reader , he is reminded that there is at present no rational way in which this can be done .
12 Formal nursing courses reflect these concerns , but there is at present no mechanism for updating the knowledge of those who qualified some time ago .
13 There is at present no consensus about the BCG ( tuberculosis ) vaccine .
14 There is at present no consensus about the BCG ( tuberculosis ) vaccine .
15 While there is at present no firm indication that Christie 's will be following suit , the auction house will have to act quickly if it does decide to raise the rate in order to get the new terms out for the renewed contracts for American consigners which will be issued in the New Year .
16 At present no controlled group study has been reported with child victims and their families and , even when attempts have been made to evaluate interventions , findings suggest that the treatment of abusive parents has only been marginally effective .
17 According to Gennady Shatalov , chief geophysician of the Tyumen geological centre , at present no one has full information on the quantity and quality of regional resources which substantially hinders their control , processing and export .
18 There is at present no academic discipline which sees it as its specific project to examine the nature of artefacts as cultural forms .
19 More recently , it appears , she has accepted that his government has ceased to exist but she remains deeply hostile to the U.S.C. , and in particular Mr. Mahdi , who are equally hostile to her , and contends that there is at present no government of the Republic of Somalia .
20 At present no CAD system is configured to provide a means of comparing many alternative schemes against a given set of design parameters .
21 There is at present no reliable marker to determine whether autoimmunity or hepatitis C virus infection is the major disease process .
22 Unfortunately very few gateways have been excavated , and at present no common trends can be discerned .
23 The master of the college , Professor Morris , had issued a tetchy statement to the effect that , while it had been considered advisable to seek police assistance , there was at present no cause for alarm .
24 There are at present no specific proposals for changes in the treatment of dominant firm monopolies .
25 There is at present no satisfactory device for measuring rapid pressure fluctuations within a flow .
26 At present no other organisations have been given this status .
27 Roman medallions were made in small quantities and so the die would be likely to survive , while at Dalisandos no coinage was made in the intervening years .
28 From the moment the world championship reached its present stature by moving to The Crucible at Sheffield no title holder had gone beyond the first round the following year .
29 If a man be a good worker and preacher in one parish , the chances are he will be successful in another , but if he be feeble and indifferent at home no amount of artificially generated steam , raised to outstrip an opponent and gull a congregation on a particular Sunday , will endow him with energy and eloquence .
30 David Lacey on the anti-climactic run-out at Rotterdam No samba in Brazil 's new step .
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