Example sentences of "[vb past] no [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guard , who bore no insignia identifying the Institute , escorted Manescu to a large cell-like room with no window . |
| 2 | This Ketamine user reported no desire to take the drug again . |
| 3 | But the stewards found no evidence to support the claim . |
| 4 | A later assessment of the decision found no evidence to support these suspicions ( Rhodes 1970:233 — 5 ) . |
| 5 | Nebes , Madden and Berg ( 1981 ) found no evidence to support this hypothesis . |
| 6 | We found no evidence to support previous suggestions of an excess of cancer in men treated with atenolol , but in an observational study we can not discount the possibility of confounding factors . |
| 7 | When the case came to court , Pauline Baldwin was granted a decree nisi because of her husband 's admitted adultery , but the judge found no evidence proved against Gabrielle . |
| 8 | But a justice ministry spokesman said yesterday : ‘ The state prosecutor found no evidence to suggest the loan was of a fraudulent nature and the ministry decided there were no grounds to extend the ( judge 's ) mandate . ’ |
| 9 | A report by the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission ( UNIKOM ) , released on Sept. 4 , found no evidence to substantiate Kuwaiti allegations of an Iraqi military incursion on the island of Bubiyan [ see p. 38407 ] . |
| 10 | A pity Orwell and Waugh found no chance to discuss such weighty questions when they met , for the first and last time , in 1949 . |
| 11 | I stopped the bell but , when I examined the snow , found no other footprints around . ’ |
| 12 | Sandy bays invited the bather to plunge in the clear cool waters ; boating parties found no breeze to fill the sail , and rowed lazily around the coast . |
| 13 | A spear , too spent to hurt , struck his own shield and found no room to fall to the ground , for by then men and shields were packed close around and behind him , and the three wedges had formed the svinfylkja , the pig 's snout , the secret of Odin that he hoped fur-traders ' sons had not been instructed about . |
| 14 | My husband died , my love , died in his car , on the night we put the clocks back , on the night of the extra hour that everyone else was glad of , though for my part I found no use to put it to . |
| 15 | We found no security tips in any of that films material . |
| 16 | The Exclusion Parliaments found no time to discuss Haines 's scheme , but , along with the proposals of Thomas Firmin [ q.v. ] , |
| 17 | The study found no savings resulted from the change , and some spending increased . |
| 18 | The MMC found no grounds to suggest that the pattern of ownership , ‘ solus ’ ties or pricing arrangements in the industry , operated against the public interest . |
| 19 | While hastening to disassociate the institution from the former director 's personal life , the board nonetheless found no reason to relinquish his professional skills . |
| 20 | However , the evaluators found no reason to doubt that a degree of participation compatible with the philosophy of the project had in fact taken place . |
| 21 | Only a minority of police surgeons ' decisions subsequently receive in depth scrutiny and our work found no reason to doubt the quality of the service , but this shortcoming should be addressed . |
| 22 | Women were permitted corsets only if they used no force to preserve the shape . |
| 23 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 24 | They resembled no cricket stroke that Robert could remember . |
| 25 | ‘ She 'd no call to mention that , ’ said Mrs Cornforth . |
| 26 | And he 'd no right to do that , until it was all settled up . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'd no right to draw those pictures in my book , ’ he said . |
| 28 | He 'd no right to drag you into this sort of caper . ’ |
| 29 | That she 'd no need to query it because it had been so special . |
| 30 | You 'd no need to have bought your own . ’ |