Example sentences of "been no " in BNC.

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1 However , it remains concerned that there has been no stay on sentences or executions pending the review of existing legislation .
2 There had been no mention of the individual 's property rights in the 1922 constitution .
3 Without the materials , he wrote , without the paints and the brushes , the pencils and the paper , above all without the panels of glass , there could have been no beginning , and I want to record here , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that there was a beginning , at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday 27 July 1967 .
4 The result has been both attractive and functional , and there has certainly been no shortage of bees on the beans .
5 In consequence , even when the insider retires and ostensibly leaves the family , he will be expected to maintain his silence , and although bland hagiographic biography has been acceptable in the past , there has been no place for the espionage of critical ethnography .
6 Otherwise you may aggravate something that , with a little rest and good management , could have been no more than a minor injury .
7 No — the government will find it hard to sustain that again , when there has been no army in the field against them — no pitched battles — no weapons , even .
8 ( There had been no plan to illustrate the book , but Leonard talked his friend and fellow-student Freda Guttman into it , and so the book appeared with five designs from her hand ) .
9 ‘ As yet there have been no fatalities , ’ said Trevor Newsom , stepping in front of a group of writhing Tramens .
10 The buildings are the same as they were one hundred years ago ; there has been no development on this block .
11 They reserve one day for women , and in 1886 there may have been no day reserved for women at all .
12 As we go to press , there has been no satisfactory explanation as to the withdrawal of the number one seed Monica Seles from the Wimbledon Women 's Singles at the last moment .
13 Had BR had more time and more funding , had the government been more sympathetic towards the railway investment and had there been no recession , the APT might have eventually been successful — but that is another story .
14 As yet there has been no other attempt to describe so vividly in dance the wish of any character , but in this case a puppet , to escape from prison .
15 There 've been no complaints when rescued dogs have howled through the night .
16 He has been no trouble with my two GSD bitches but while out walking , he flies at other dogs .
17 Zobel said that there had been no approaches from Japanese companies wanting to work in the OMI .
18 Nearly ten years after Belsey 's book appeared , there has been no revolution in the first sense , and it does not look as if there will be .
19 This was in The New English Weekly , a London journal of very limited circulation ; there appears to have been no comparable acknowledgement in the poet 's native land .
20 It had not occurred to us that this ranging survey of the idioms of English and incidentally French verse had been no more than a ‘ prologue ’ — and to what , for heaven 's sake ?
21 The mujahedin have been using US-supplied Chinese and Egyptian-made rockets in recent years to shell Kabul , but there has been no previous evidence of Western rockets being given to the guerrillas .
22 Britain first supplied Blowpipes to the guerrillas in 1986 and since then there have been no reports of additional supplies .
23 There have been no controlled trials of the Gerson therapy .
24 Mr Sawyer , chairman of the party 's home policy committee which co-ordinated the work of the seven policy review groups , insisted there had been no sacrifice of principles .
25 Michael Joseph says there has been no breach : ‘ The Sunday Times 's promotion is theirs , not ours . ’
26 But there have been no credible claims of responsibility , and the use of Pentrite suggests to secret service investigators that it may not have been aimed at French national interests but at someone on the aircraft .
27 Had that principle ruled post-war planning , there would have been no new towns .
28 Asked whether he had screened the Yugoslavs before they were sent back , he said there had been no requirement under the order .
29 But there has been no sign from Kabul that President Najibullah is at all in favour of the proposal .
30 There have been no scientific studies to determine whether the eggs themselves are infected . ’
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