Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pron] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your hair causes you no concern , count yourself lucky . |
| 2 | The statute gives him no such say . |
| 3 | Fully discharging a single NiCad cell does it no harm , as you state in the article . |
| 4 | To publish falsely , of an Irish priest , that he informed on members of the IRA is not defamatory : it may cause him to be executed by terrorists , but the law offers him no way of securing a correction . |
| 5 | If someone other than the buyer was injured by the goods , the Sale of Goods Act gives him no rights . |
| 6 | Your proposal brings me no comfort whatever , but I suppose I have little alternative . |
| 7 | Just because Council is delegated in the matter of routine gives it no right to assume such a role when it proposes such a mammoth commitment . |
| 8 | She responds to a comment by the monk on how she appears to have passed the night in sexual " labour " by bemoaning what she suffers as a wife , implying that her husband gives her no pleasure in bed and is mean with his money . |
| 9 | Chen Xinhua , the English champion retains his No 2 spot behind Prean , but the gap has narrowed to 44 points . |
| 10 | In order to arrive at its findings , the European Commission does what no court in this country can do , namely sit in judgment upon the policy and justification of an Act of Parliament . |
| 11 | But at the work-place the pursuit of profit allows him no time to be distracted with personal pursuits better attended to elsewhere . |
| 12 | Its truthful and intimate style gives us no reason for supposing that we are seeing anything other than Handel at home — his own comfortable and well worn chair , his own clothes and his own table . |
| 13 | Lissa said with crushing force , ‘ Whether or not she is your sister gives you no right to make slanderous , evil accusations . |
| 14 | The story gives us no clues at this stage . |
| 15 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 16 | What evidence do we have that the alien means us no harm ? |
| 17 | Spinoza offers us no magical solution to these problems . |
| 18 | The poem enacts various creations as parts of an apparently continuing ritual pattern ; it is polyphiloprogenitive in detailing the creation of the Word , Origen , the painting , and flowers ; we seem able to trace all back to their cause , yet ultimately the cause is only a formal utterance , ‘ In the beginning was the Word ’ , whose repetition takes us no further . |
| 19 | The vicious tone does him no credit whatsoever and in fact only serves to tarnish the image of the party . |
| 20 | The fact that it was a woman who delivered the doubly-sexist utterance makes it no more PC . |
| 21 | When a thinker unravels previously unnoticed implications of a familiar idea , one seems stupid to have missed them oneself ; but anyone who discerns a similarity which runs athwart the current categories , a poet by metaphor or a scientist by a new model or paradigm , can strike us with astonishment and awe , as a genius whose spontaneous flash illuminates what no logical operation within the frame of accepted concepts could have disclosed . |
| 22 | My own cardiologist likes his Scotch , as I do , and says that a glass of whisky in moderation does you no harm at all . |