Example sentences of "virtually no [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to enable him to concentrate on it , the government services that arose one after the other in the nineteenth century ( forestry , irrigation , the archaeological survey , public health and sani-tation , roads ) were organized outside the administrative structure , and had virtually no contact with the district officer . |
| 2 | ‘ I had virtually no contact from the Board at all in that period . |
| 3 | The new improved varieties have virtually no green in the leaf colour at all . |
| 4 | Where Thins has three Waterstones to compete with and , at university level , the old established Bauermeister , Smiths has two Waterstones and a Dillons , but virtually no competition on the campus of either Glasgow or Strathclyde . |
| 5 | But equally striking is the fact that the rest of Aquitaine , including regions as turbulent as La Marche , the Limousin and the whole of Gascony , took virtually no part in the revolt . |
| 6 | It is important to note that chance plays virtually no part in the unfolding of events within these tales . |
| 7 | October 1940 , but made virtually no progress in the winter months and the arrival of British Air Force units to assist the Greek troops , prompted Hitler to act in order to protect the very important German control of oilfields in Rumania . |
| 8 | The late latent stage of syphilis , like the early latent stage , is an asymptomatic period when there is virtually no chance of the infection being passed on . |
| 9 | A Gallup poll for The Sunday Telegraph shows Conservatives and Labour level on 37½ per cent each , virtually no change since the middle of last week . |
| 10 | There was virtually no change in the profit share between the mid-fifties and mid-sixties . |
| 11 | The total audit fees paid by the current constituents of the FT-SE 100 Share Index in their last financial years show virtually no change from the amount paid in the previous year . |
| 12 | It is true that there is virtually no restriction upon the bringing of actions : for instance , I can at this moment sue the Prime Minister for assault — though I shall fail in the action . |
| 13 | They had done virtually no research on the elasticity of demand , relying as usual on their intuition and experience , but in this case intuition may not have played them entirely false . |
| 14 | Although there has been much detailed study of the effects of tariff reduction in western Europe over the period 1945-68 there has been virtually no research into the impact on foreign trade and national balances of payments of the removal of non-tariff barriers , especially the quotas which had been widely imposed from 1931 onwards . |
| 15 | It certainly gave virtually no attention to the impact of erm issues from developing countries , and yet within a matter of weeks we 've had the energy problem bringing home directly to the reality of policy in Britain the need to understand and to establish new forms of economic relationships with developing countries . |
| 16 | After we had sampled 3000 vehicles at the three sites , we found that there was virtually no difference in the speed between the two classes of drivers . |
| 17 | So the sort of murder will have in your police procedural will present virtually no challenge to the reader to guess or work out who-dun-it before your detectives . |
| 18 | The Doctor rushed down the corridor , his small feet making virtually no sound on the metal grillework . |