Example sentences of "no [noun] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do n't find any of the jobs you 've seen advertised appealing , it may well be worth writing to a company that you are interested in working for , but which has no vacancies that you know of . |
| 2 | A person who harassed a neighbour with racist abuse would nevertheless have no defence that he was not acting in public if his words were , ( as he knew ) audible to the person next door . |
| 3 | It is no defence that he acted reasonably if in fact the goods are not reasonably fit for their purpose . |
| 4 | During the review , the judge said : ‘ These are frightfully shy children , totally unlikely to be able to persuade a jury that anything happened , even if it did , and secondly , there is no corroboration and thirdly , no damage that I can see , fortunately , was done to the children . ’ |
| 5 | But he could hardly have walked to St Matthew 's that way ; there were no signs that he had cleaned his shoes anywhere in the church . |
| 6 | He had a serious expression on his face and there were no signs that he had just escaped a raging inferno . |
| 7 | ‘ There are no signs that she was sexually assaulted . |
| 8 | I was filled with a dry sadness , a mixture of remembering and knowing ; remembering what was and what might have been and knowing it was all past ; at the same time knowing , or beginning to know , that other things were happily past — at least some of my illusions about myself , and then the syphilis , for there were no signs that it was going to come back . |
| 9 | It is no coincidence that we move from this shot to a view of the holy pictures and medals surrounding Katy 's mirror . |
| 10 | It 's no coincidence that he , like Greene , now lives abroad . |
| 11 | It 's no coincidence that it originated in Moscow — this was the Communist old guard 's parting shot . |
| 12 | The principate of Severus probably saw the greatest expansion , and it is perhaps no coincidence that it may have been he who introduced the annona militaris , a tax paid in grain or other materials to meet the needs of the army . |
| 13 | It is no coincidence that it was a Conservative Government under my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) who signed the Single European Act and joined the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 14 | It had been no coincidence that she had been called to the phone in the weighing room . |
| 15 | To Mrs Thrale he wrote , ‘ No part that I have seen is plain ; you are always climbing or descending , and every step is upon rock or mire . |
| 16 | And if you did palm it off as a fact , it would be no excuse that you had done it non-linguistically : for example , by including clips from Sherlock Holmes movies in old newsreels as if they were genuine news items . |
| 17 | There was no way of explaining this , no parallel that he could reach for other than to say : that he 'd once made a wish , and the wish now appeared to have come true . |
| 18 | Even if the messages were not true ( and she had no hope that they might be true ) at least somebody believed sufficiently in their truth to pay cash for them , to rent hoardings and to put up posters for them , and that in itself offered some kind of alternative : Christianity meant nothing to her , but she was glad that in despite of her mother 's defection , it existed . |
| 19 | Was it because he had no hope that he had lasted so short a time ? |
| 20 | No industry that I know would ever have publicly exposed such a failure and their frankness in so doing should do nothing but increase public confidence in the honesty and integrity of those concerned and also in their total commitment to the safe and efficient operation of the station . |
| 21 | Superswim organiser Shiela Joplin said : ‘ We have had no indication that we will have to take the Superswim away from Eston Baths . |
| 22 | This , however , is no indication that they have a particularly high opinion of the spiritual contribution of women . |
| 23 | There was no indication that they , unlike the aggro leaders , were actively engaged in inciting other fans to join in the scraps or that they led concerted attacks against the opposition . |
| 24 | Although the Yugoslavs had so far had no indication that they were being taken to anywhere but another camp , probably in Italy , and therefore McCreery would have observed an operation apparently going smoothly , we think it unlikely that Verney , Rose-Price and others who disliked the fact that Yugoslavs were being repatriated under a misapprehension as to their destination would have failed to ensure that the Army Commander was given a true picture . |
| 25 | Some women certainly will sail through menopause with never a hot flush and no problems at all , sadly that 's no indication that they 're not going to have problems from their bones later on . |
| 26 | The onus of rebutting the presumption in 5 is not lightly discharged and the fact that shares are expressly made participating as regards either dividends or capital is no indication that they are participating as regards the other — indeed it has been taken as evidence to the contrary . |
| 27 | At the moment there 's no indication that they 've done anything , it 's almost as though that particular prescription was . |
| 28 | Mrs Shephard has given no indication that she does . |
| 29 | ‘ When she opened the hospice in June , she gave no indication that she intended to come back . ’ |
| 30 | But , at this particular time there is no indication that she was one . |