Example sentences of "[vb past] be no [noun] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And from that moment to this there had been no opportunity for any kind of personal discussion . |
| 2 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 3 | In his childhood swimming at Cannes there had been no need for these ridiculous costumes . |
| 4 | For he could not have had to look far for whatever it might be , there had been no time for that . |
| 5 | There had been no rain for many months . |
| 6 | In 1803 , after there had been no rain for several months , it began to rain incessantly and at about 8 p.m. on 9 October the rivers burst their banks . |
| 7 | There had been no rain for several weeks and the earth was hard , barely showing marks of the tractor wheels . |