Example sentences of "no [adv] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we can no longer rely on the extended family being dose at hand . |
| 2 | When the teacher inhibits the child from pointing and pretends not to be able to see the picture , the child understands that the communicative situation has changed , that she can no longer rely on the shared visual context and she makes her reference explicit ( the teddy ) , locates him verbally rather than by pointing to him ( on the chair ) and makes explicit how the second picture differs from the first ( there ai n't no teddy ) . |
| 3 | With the soaring call for its services — when the UN takes over the Somali operation on May 4th the number of peacekeepers in the field will increase from around 60,000 to nearly 90,000 — the organisation can no longer rely on the old faithfuls : countries that , either from idealism ( Canada and Scandinavia , for instance ) or from poverty ( Fiji , Nepal and many others ) , were glad to provide troops . |
| 4 | ‘ It is feared that Hungary and Romania will no longer sit on the same side of the negotiation table in Vienna , ’ he said . |
| 5 | A third qualification is that modern contracts are no longer based on the nineteenth-century notion of freedom of contract . |
| 6 | A corollary of this rule , and a condition of its operation , is the establishment of a proper intellectual division of labour , one which is no longer based on the rival claims of totalizing theories or disciplines . |
| 7 | I no longer count on the Serbian opposition . |