Example sentences of "[conj] having no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gingivitis did not increase the risk of coronary heart disease , whereas periodontitis or having no teeth increased it by about 25% . |
| 2 | There 's nothing worse in life than having no choice , I think . |
| 3 | It may be that having no windows on the ground floor was a simple security feature , a precaution against burglary . |
| 4 | People say that having no children was/is a blessing . |
| 5 | Fortunately she returned to the clinic the following day and having no milk they showed her how to make a supplementary feed but it was too late and the baby died . |
| 6 | Renting out the family home while working abroad on contract may not be particularly appealing ; but selling it and having no stake in the home housing market on returning at the end of the contract is by no means an ideal solution . |
| 7 | One man was imprisoned for three years for possessing the gun and one for one year ( suspended for two years ) for stealing a car and having no insurance . |
| 8 | A 20-year-old man was charged last night with causing death by dangerous driving , failing to supply a specimen of blood or urine and having no insurance or MOT . |
| 9 | Two youths will appear at Sutton Coldfield Youth Court , West Midlands , today accused of aggravated vehicle taking , allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle and having no insurance . |
| 10 | JOHN Joseph McGinn , 31 , of Hillside Avenue , Huyton , was jailed for 120 days by Wirral magistrates after admitting driving while disqualified at Wallasey , having consumed excess alcohol and having no insurance . |
| 11 | Mulraney , 20 , of Lambton Road , Middlesbrough , admitted two charges each of reckless driving , driving a vehicle knowing it was taken without consent , driving whilst disqualified and having no insurance . |
| 12 | The youths , aged 15 and 16 , were remanded by magistrates at Sutton Coldfield , West Midlands , on charges of aggravated vehicle taking , allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle and having no insurance . |
| 13 | The owner subsequently found out his customer 's identity , and having no doubt as to the use to which his vessel would be put , informed the British Customs . |
| 14 | After all there must be something more to life than sleeping in a garden shed and having no money and nobody who cared twopence whether you were alive or dead ( not after the competition , anyway — Nutty at least needed him till then ) but what it was Nails could not fathom . |
| 15 | However , in 1938 the ‘ Britons fight for Britain only ’ and ‘ Mosley and Peace ’ campaigns , although based on assumptions different from the government 's appeasement policies and having no influence upon them , nevertheless harmonized quite well with the general drift of public opinion with regard to European intervention and the threat of war . |
| 16 | This applies , for example , to an action brought by a French plaintiff in the Paris court against a company incorporated in the United States and having no place of business in France ; the proceedings do not have to be based on any of the grounds for jurisdiction elaborated in the Convention . |
| 17 | The defendants in an English action wished to inspect documents of admitted relevance to the subject-matter of the case ( which involved a series of reinsurance contracts ) in the possession of a company not itself a party to the litigation and having no place of business in England ; the documents were situated in the State of Washington . |
| 18 | Poverty always spells weakness , vulnerability , humiliation , and having no prospects for improvement . |
| 19 | Prince Dara was a man of dignified manners , of a comely countenance , polite in conversation , ready and gracious of speech , of extraordinary liberality , kindly and compassion ate , but over-confident in his opinion of himself , considering himself competent in all things and having no need of advisers . |
| 20 | It is the task in front of humanity to arrive at a definition for all controversial acts and to set a value on them ; acts decided as ‘ good ’ contributing to the Godhead , acts decided as ‘ evil ’ detracting there from , and acts of an innocuous nature as ‘ neutral ’ — , and having no effect . |
| 21 | It was true enough and my mother 's only response was to criticize the Swans for getting married and having no children because they were selfish . |
| 22 | There is no point in just having money , spending it and having no regard to where it goes . |
| 23 | Significant positive correlations were found between the rate of known opioid use and each of seven indicators of social deprivation ( in both the general and youth populations ) , namely : unemployment , council tenancies , overcrowding , large families , single-parent households , an unskilled labour force , and having no access to a car ( see Parker et al . |
| 24 | It must be strange playing live with the band , but having no say with the recording side . |
| 25 | At the local authority level Dorset County Council ( 1980 ) , in a booklet called Looking at Schools , talks of a joint-evaluation , which amounts to an inspection with the school agreeing to the report , but having no control over the process of the inspection . |
| 26 | Diving down to a few hundred feet over Hal Far , Müncheberg then claimed another at 0754 as it was landing , but having no witness of this was credited only with a probable , although it was subsequently included in his score . |
| 27 | This transformation was due first to the influx of runaway serfs into the towns which meant that labourers free from the personal ties of feudalism , but having no access to the means of production , became a dependent and exploitable group which was to become the proletariat . |
| 28 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 29 | But having no wish , as Virginia Woolf put it , ‘ to dabble her fingers self-approvingly in the stuff of other souls ’ and believing in the stick and carrot philosophy of human conduct , she joined the police . |
| 30 | A tour of great interest to walkers who like to search for holes in the ground , but having no appeal to others who do not , is provided by a visit to the Allotment , an area of moorland adjacent to the Gaping Gill complex . |