Example sentences of "we [vb mod] have no [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Many of us have a special tune or song that conjures up a particular time and place whenever we hear it , or brings back a flood of memories , but we may have no way of celebrating it .
2 In some cases we may have no difficulty in finding several groups , but in every case we shall find one ( or two ) .
3 The point is that if anything of that degree of complexity were found on a planet , we should have no hesitation in concluding that life existed , or had once existed , on that planet .
4 Er , let's remember that it is a study that is , to start us talking , and I 'm sure we 'll have no difficulty in finding some comments as we go through them .
5 We 'll have no politics in this house , so will you shut your row , the pair of you ! ’
6 But the fact that each group came into existence in its own time and for its own reasons , and found its own identity and direction , means that we need have no fear about it losing its autonomy vis-à-vis the other groups .
7 For though you and your ancestors got your property by murder and theft , and you keep it by the same power from us that have an equal right to the land with you by the righteous law of creation , yet we shall have no occasion of quarrelling …
8 We shall have no need of a fuller definition of a causal circumstance than the informal one we now have-given in the nine propositions above .
9 And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim .
10 It is true enough to say that we would have no conception of it .
11 One might suppose that there were new laws that held at singularities , but it would be very difficult even to formulate such laws at such badly behaved points , and we would have no guide from observations as to what those laws might be .
12 Briefing followed , were Colonel Seawell , the Group Commander , told us we would have no fear of flak on the way home .
13 We will have no difficulty in getting the fifty signatures we need for a Special General Meeting .
14 ‘ We know our leasing deals are within the letter and spirit of the law as we will have no influence over the purchase of beer for the pubs , ’ he said .
15 We will have no truck with Sinn Fein .
16 ‘ We will learn a lot from our Japanese colleagues and where we can benefit from Japanese methodology we will have no hesitation in adopting it . ’
17 ‘ If a Welsh team wins the West title in some future season we will have no objection to their moving into England 's National League , ’ said Stephen Baines , the Hockey Association chief executive .
18 In a book , God In Us , published next month , which his refusal to withdraw from publication led to his sacking , he said : ‘ There is nothing ‘ out there ’ and if there is , we can have no knowledge of it . ’
19 We have already seen some such things in the area of natural philosophy , things of which , ‘ by the natural use of our faculties , we can have no knowledge at all ’ .
20 But as far as these are substantive we can " t formulate the limits , since we can have no idea of what is inconceivable .
21 An example of the latter is the argument that since we are mistaken about secondary qualities-the real world does not contain red , sweet , and hot things but only certain electromagnetic , stereo-chemical , and micromechanical properties-so we can have no faith in our direct awareness of our conscious events , states , and processes .
22 That is why I say that at impact , during a proper swing , the shaft of a club is doing nothing to help or hinder a shot — and we can have no control over it at this point .
23 By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories .
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