Example sentences of "[verb] no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would win no prizes for being tidy , but the main aggravation was the fact that we had , between us , eight identical black Karrimor pannier bags . |
| 2 | Kevin Dunion , FoE 's Scottish director , said he was delighted that Strathclyde had accepted that it could win no exemption from the European directive that bans sea dumping from the start of 1999 . |
| 3 | Those verbs , though roughly appropriate , evoke no tingle of recognition in the reader : they are flat , inert . |
| 4 | If young people posed no threat in terms of allegiance , there would have been little need of so many reform programmes . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the bishop was firmly assured that , as yet , the English posed no threat . |
| 6 | Ironically enough , only Dennis , sleeping off a heavy lunch , posed no threat to my desires . |
| 7 | Darren White posed no threat since he was about as athletic as me , but James Kirkby ( better known as ‘ Jaz ’ ) was another matter . |
| 8 | The young Irish nurse was happy too to be employed by the Bradleys , for the baby 's mother was kind and considerate and her husband posed no threat . |
| 9 | There was no similarity of course ; Rostov 's service in a dozen frontier system wars posed no threat to the succession — rather the reverse in fact — but for a moment he found himself wondering if the convoluted nature of the Court infrastructure made the most devious method inevitable . |
| 10 | He posed no threat to anyone . |
| 11 | Prussia was the weakest of the victorious powers in 1815 , and posed no threat to Britain , as France seemed to do when in the 1860s Napoleon III appeared to be following the ambitions of Napoleon I , and contemplating invasion . |
| 12 | Thus new furniture would be defective if it contained live woodworm even though the presence of the woodworm posed no threat of personal injury . |
| 13 | And Merrill certainly posed no threat to Rob 's future with Heather , whatever Luke wanted to think . |
| 14 | The French Agriculture Minister , Henri Nallet , said that the ban , which his United Kingdom counterpart John Gummer described as " unwarranted , unjustified and contrary to EC law " , would be lifted as soon as he had satisfactory guarantees that BSE ( not hitherto officially confirmed in French cattle ) posed no threat to human health . |
| 15 | At the beginning of the 1950s , they were merely emergent and posed no threat to Franco , who was concerned to defuse two more immediate potential sources of internal unrest . |
| 16 | Peers , naturally , posed no problem . |
| 17 | Their greater height posed no problem for spore dispersal : if anything , it was a help since up in the tree tops , spores were more easily caught by the wind and carried away . |
| 18 | While the agencies maintained almost total control over the enforcement of standards , a control which could be preserved in the absence of publicity , this posed no problem : ‘ A lot of the standards were set by River Authorities ; and the works were n't capable of achieving [ them ] anyway , ’ a senior official said . |
| 19 | This posed no problem with regard to three of the children as there was no evidence whatsoever that sexual abuse had actually occurred . |
| 20 | The controversial Mildmay fences posed no problems they could not solve and , eight months in advance , everything is set for an enthralling Boxing Day confrontation in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park . |
| 21 | Finding hostesses posed no problems by all accounts . |
| 22 | The modest target posed no problems for the bubbling Pontblyddyn side as they stormed to a winning 67–3 in the 20th over , opener Mark Hughes ( 31 ) and Mark Williams ( 16 ) ensuring that shell-shocked Colwyn missed out on a zone semi-final . |
| 23 | Christians have regarded the Messiah as non-political — a wholly spiritual figure who posed no challenge to temporal authority , who had no secular or political aspirations himself , who beckoned his followers to a kingdom ‘ not of this world ’ . |
| 24 | And Jesus himself had to be divorced from his historical context , turned into a non-political figure — an other-worldly , spiritual Messiah who posed no challenge whatever to Caesar . |
| 25 | Giving evidence yesterday on his own behalf , he dismissed as ‘ rubbish ’ the evidence of the only police officer on patrol with him that the car posed no danger to the patrol . |
| 26 | Senior managers told a press conference that the accident posed no danger to people or the environment . |
| 27 | They did not cause any radiation leaks and posed no danger to the environment . |
| 28 | Robert Gould , Strathclyde 's leader , said the building posed no danger to pupils because the asbestos was totally secure . |
| 29 | The debate and the votes that followed it solve no problems . |
| 30 | Beyond it lives no man , and even the hunters cross the ridge only seldom . |