Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the stuff has to go somewhere : why not put it as far as possible from people , where it poses no threat to drinking water and little threat ( fisheries apart ) to food ? |
| 2 | A horse should be able to feel safe and secure in its own stable : it needs a ‘ safe-house ’ where it knows no harm will come to it . |
| 3 | Her supporters , however , claim that she has returned the party to the essential verities of sound money , lower rates of income tax , strong government , and rolling back government from areas where it has no useful role to play . |
| 4 | Against this , however , it has already identified some areas where it has no plans for expansion , including commercial fire risks in Germany and brokered motor vehicle insurance in Spain . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , USL Pacific is acting as Chorus ' agent in the Far East where it has no operation of its own . |
| 6 | One measure of the declining influence of the Soviet party was that at the last of three congresses several ruling parties ( the Yugoslav , Albanian , Chinese , Vietnamese and North Korean ) did not attend , and only sixty-one of the seventy-five parties present could be persuaded to sign the final communique without reservations although it made no reference to Soviet leadership of the movement and contained no explicit criticism of the Chinese . |
| 7 | The UN Security Council on Oct. 6 voted unanimously to create within 30 days a war crimes commission to examine evidence of " grave breaches of international humanitarian law " in former Yugoslavia ( although it made no provision for further action ) . |
| 8 | Although it fielded no candidates in the prefectural contests , it won four seats in the national constituency . |
| 9 | For example , Roman Jakobson and his Prague school colleague René Wellek have had considerable influence on literary studies through their teaching and work in the United States for a number of decades , and , although it carried no explicit theoretical creed , René Wellek 's Theory of Literature ( co-authored with Austin Warren and first published in 1949 ) was for many years the only widely available explicitly theoretical account of literary studies for Anglo-Saxon students of literature . |
| 10 | Although it proposed no major institutional changes , apart from greater co-operation between colleges of education , universities and polytechnics , it did recommend that the colleges should broaden their base by offering other courses alongside teacher-training , notably the two-year Diploma of Higher Education ( Dip.HE ) , a development which is discussed in detail later in this chapter . |
| 11 | The new legislation made it possible for all South Africans to purchase freehold tenure to the 87 per cent of South Africa 's land hitherto reserved for the white minority , although it placed no obligation on white owners to sell , and commentators pointed out that few blacks had the means to buy . |
| 12 | A Polisario communique of Dec. 3 claimed that it had carried out a total of 23 assaults on the Moroccan defence wall between Nov. 2 and Nov. 23 , although it gave no details of casualties . |
| 13 | He has declared himself general co-ordinator of a new Parliament of Popular Power which , although it has no legislative authority , appears destined to take the place of the country 's National Assembly , which was dissolved last month . |
| 14 | It knows the right and wrong which have been instilled into it and — a contentious assertion — sometimes it seems to know what is right or wrong even although it has no behavioural conditioning for that situation . |
| 15 | Although it has no normal control over policy the JCC is clearly an influential body with considerable support from both central and local government . |
| 16 | Although it has no permanent collections , its flexibility and room for manoeuvre could lead to new kinds of collaboration with institutions and individuals willing to lend works of art . |
| 17 | Although it has no bearing on our decision , it should be pointed out that had the courts had power to make the order sought , Dr. Hayes ' evidence would in any event have been circumscribed by two public interest immunity certificates issued on 13 April 1992 respectively by the Secretary of State for Transport relating to ‘ security measures ’ and by the Lord Advocate in relation to potential criminal proceedings in Scotland . |
| 18 | Although it has no formal terms of reference , its discussions principally concern grants and expenditure levels . |
| 19 | That is not to say that it left no trace , with its demise , and the anti-Modernism of the new novelist was not instinctive or immediate but of slow and uncertain growth . |
| 20 | Mr Fitton yesterday made clear that he had always been acting in an independent capacity in the offer for Eagle , and that it had no connection with Braithwaite . |
| 21 | Casting aside Pennzoil 's claims that it had no intention of launching a bid , Chevron moved into top gear to protect itself against a takeover which could be worth $35billion and would revive memories of some of the biggest corporate battles of the 1970 's and 80's . |
| 22 | That meant , above all , that America would signal to the Soviet Union that it had no intention of rubbing Moscow 's nose in its defeat . |
| 23 | In Better Schools ( 1985 ) the government singled out ‘ peace studies ’ for criticism , saying that it had no place on the school curriculum because it failed to deal with certain issues in a balanced and objective manner . |
| 24 | But because Hinkley C was seen as a virtual ‘ replica ’ of the Sizewell design , the NII had made it clear from the start that it had no major reservations . |
| 25 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |
| 26 | However , the Shetland Islands Council made it clear that it had no intention of grasping the nettle itself , and taking any decision . |
| 27 | Sabre has stressed that it had no formal link with Clydesale Office Equipment , which has now closed down . |
| 28 | At independence in 1961 and during the period immediately afterwards , the new TANU government was concerned that it had no direct voice in the press . |
| 29 | Nevertheless the episode had shown the Government that it had no authority to ban newspapers published in Tanzania which were properly registered and also that it might have been in difficulty had it not discovered a technical irregularity in the case of Ulimwengu . |
| 30 | During April 1988 , Suchard , the Swiss-based chocolate manufacturer , launched a dawn raid on Rowntree , the York-based company , quickly scooping up a stake of 14.9 per cent as a ‘ strategic investment ’ , but claiming that it had no intention of launching a full-scale takeover bid . |