Example sentences of "[verb] to have no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , Americans appear to have no sense of the Gallic tradition of ribald humour that goes back to Rabelais . |
| 2 | Schools in the private sector seem to respond quickly when there are difficulties with children and if the school 's reputation is threatened appear to have no hesitation in asking parents to place their children elsewhere . |
| 3 | These can be substantial — one , at least , reaches over a million entries — but — they appear to have no obvious advantage over the databases described above , except , perhaps , when they afford the prospect of immediate supply from stock of titles held in their files . |
| 4 | Human intelligence , by its very nature , never fully accepts statements that appear to have no plausible foundation . |
| 5 | Considering the other sensory systems of cetaceans , they appear to have no sense of smell , for they lack any obvious olfactory organ , olfactory nerve or olfactory cerebral centre . |
| 6 | So many diets appear to have no connection with calories . |
| 7 | They appear to have no need of an anemone and usually ignore any placed in the aquarium with them . |
| 8 | They look rather like elongated jellyfish and appear to have no structural virtues . |
| 9 | They faced ‘ a fundamentally more brutal , wicked , perverse and godless generation who appear to have no concept of right or wrong in the traditional sense ’ . |
| 10 | The administrative organs of an international organisation must be able to bring the requirements of the treaty to the attention of the member States , but if the members persist in their action , appear to have no further recourse . |
| 11 | Such statements may be based on strong conviction and close observation , and may even be felt to be self-evident , but they appear to have no empirical status — are merely , we might say , guesses — unless supported by frequency data . |
| 12 | Despite the undeniable interest and importance of semantic and statistical studies of language , they appear to have no direct relevance to the problem of determining or characterising the set of grammatical utterances . |
| 13 | As Buxbaum suggests , ‘ [ s ] ince takeovers appear to have no systematic impact on weak management or suboptimal resource use … takeover threats can not affect management behaviour except in an inconsistent manner . |
| 14 | You appear to have no pretensions whatsoever . |
| 15 | The evidence available shows that school provision could have a marked impact on the way in which special needs arise , and can be met ; yet schools appear to have no clear view on what provision is the most effective . |
| 16 | They appear to have no effect at all on pigs , rats or guinea-pigs . |
| 17 | ‘ A lot of people are fed up with a whole range of changes which appear to have no philosophical direction to them , ’ he said . |
| 18 | As in the report by Reznikoff et al , all the type I foci in this study had a non-tumorigenic character in vivo and were considered to have no transforming response . |
| 19 | Kibbutzim children too are reported to have no difficulty in relative to more than one parental figure at the same time ( Pringle , 1972 ) |
| 20 | When Morse , himself looking far from serene , had come into The Randolph and demanded to see Messrs Aldrich and Brown immediately , he had resolutely avoided her eyes , appearing to have no wish to rekindle the brief moments of intimacy which had occurred in the morning 's early hours . |
| 21 | Nineteen days after the Sunday when he was deemed to have no alternative than to resign in ignominy his leadership was more secure than at any time since the 1929 election . |
| 22 | His long bushy eyebrows , mingling with his coarse black hairline , made him appear to have no forehead at all . |
| 23 | Some themes may require support by a citation , as unsupported ideas may appear to have no connections to previous work , or to the theoretical framework of the subject . |
| 24 | So a significant proportion of the population seems destined to have no ‘ real job ’ . |
| 25 | The merchant would make a profit , which can be argued to have no discernable social benefit for the society as a whole . |
| 26 | A very old friend of the family wrote to me when each of my parents died , and from her I had learnt that Sarah had decided to have no more children after Emma , and that Emma had gone to medical school so she is presumably now a doctor somewhere . |
| 27 | Wells was requested to take the oath on whether he had actually made a statement , as the police seemed to have no record of it . |
| 28 | It was clear , furthermore , she was a housekeeper who took her work very seriously and in spite of her youth , she seemed to have no difficulty gaining the respect of her staff . |
| 29 | Signs pleading for slower driving seemed to have no effect , he said . |
| 30 | She was so slim that she seemed to have no breadth whatever . |