Example sentences of "no [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eddie Frizzell , chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service , said yesterday he wished once again to make it clear that no discussions had taken place between himself and senior colleagues , or any private sector contractor , on the possibility of managing and funding a private prison in Scotland . |
| 2 | Despite formidable predictions for the growth of low-alcohol ale when brewers imagined that the ‘ less is more ’ formula would apply to anything , no brand has yet provided momentum enough to sustain firm growth . |
| 3 | The machine would read the punched tape and automatically move the tool , control the speed of rotation of the chuck of the lathe , or of the milling tool , and carry out the work while the operator stood by checking that no malfunctions occurred . |
| 4 | No present had ever been better gift-wrapped . |
| 5 | Steven dreams of driving his car swiftly and effortlessly over thrilling lanes and highways … not realizing how Saturday will come , no present bought for Pervert and Queen , will have to leap into car , 11.08 Saturday morning , claw through Saturday traffic to near place of work , double-park car , run into weathered antique shop , snatch slightly unsuitable rococo frame from shelf , pay with desperate ACCESS he was trying to cut down on , emerge , tear ticket from windscreen , drive recklessly home , fling frame at Claire , discover best shirt in fact dirty and get to wedding with three minutes to spare … |
| 6 | British National Collections were made aware of the plan to sell the Turner — and the Constable and Gainsborough — but no proposals to purchase were received . |
| 7 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that he has no proposals to set up some absurd bureaucratic organisation to tell farmers what bureaucrats think that people ought to eat , as is proposed by the Labour party ? |
| 8 | So there were no proposals going back and forth . |
| 9 | Transport secretary Malcolm Rifkind , attacked the report , saying : ‘ The Conservatives have no proposals to privatise British Rail 's passenger services . |
| 10 | However , the Heilbron Report made no proposals to change the law on the issue which had been at stake in the Morgan case — that a man could escape a rape conviction if he thought that the woman was consenting whether she was or not . |
| 11 | There are no proposals to safeguard consumers who shop in another EC country . |
| 12 | There are no proposals to vary frontiers . |
| 13 | Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that , given that after five years his Government have completely failed to establish a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs , he has no credibility in the constitutional debate in Scotland because he has no proposals to make ? |
| 14 | I think this accurately summarises the position and it will be of comfort to prospective direct entrants that there are no proposals to raise further , in terms of age and experience , direct entry requirements . |
| 15 | Without research and development properly funded these companies will have no products to sell 10 years down the line . |
| 16 | No contract had been signed . |
| 17 | Goff J analysed the communications between the parties and held that no contract had been finalised . |
| 18 | He asked his Chairman for a private chat they retired to the gents and Gould who had no contract said he was finished . |
| 19 | no asset has been acquired or disposed of on capital account or has been agreed to be acquired or disposed of and no contract involving expenditure by it on capital account has been entered into by the Business . |
| 20 | ‘ If in order to decide the question of jurisdiction it is necessary to determine finally whether a contract exists or not it would seem to follow that if the conclusion arrived at was that no contract existed then ex hypothesi the conditions of article 5(1) would not be met and the court would have no jurisdiction . |
| 21 | If after full trial the conclusion is that no contract existed then since the court had jurisdiction to try the issue that determination is final and binding upon the parties . |
| 22 | It was no doubt proper and necessary for the Rome Convention to stipulate a proper law applicable to the consequences of nullity of the contract in order to embody a comprehensive conflicts of law code ; but it by no means follows that the consequences of nullity are matters relating to a contract , since ex hypothesi no contract existed ; nor is article 10(1) ( e ) comparable with article 10(1) ( c ) ( which is the sub-paragraph cited in the Arcado case [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 1539 ) or indeed with sub-paragraphs ( a ) , ( b ) and ( d ) of article 10(1) , since in all these instances there is a contract in existence . |
| 23 | Basinger testified in the civil suit that no contract existed with Main Line Pictures Inc. and that she chose not to appear in the film , Boxing Helena , because she would have had to perform in graphic sex scenes . |
| 24 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |
| 25 | Basinger had testified in the civil lawsuit that no contract existed and that she had chosen not to appear in the unreleased film because she would have been required to perform in gratuitous sex scenes . |
| 26 | But a body may be subject to judicial review even if the powers it exercises have no identifiable legal source ; so , for example , a refusal by a non-governmental , non-statutory licensing body , such as a horse-racing or boxing control body , to grant a licence to an applicant may be subject to judicial review even though it seems to be the case that before a licence is granted , no contract exists between the applicant and the licensing body . |
| 27 | It would , of course , not be possible to argue along the lines of an ‘ implied term ’ of contract , since no contract exists . |
| 28 | The traditional lobola payments were rarely made and no contract drawn up between the families . |
| 29 | And there 's no contract to start with , the first year or two there was no contract at all . |
| 30 | In this case the acknowledgement is another counter-offer , and at this stage no contract has been created . |