Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a sense this Northern mythology asks more of men , even makes more of them , than does Christianity , for it offers them no heaven , no salvation , no reward for virtue except the sombre satisfaction of having done what is right . |
| 2 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 3 | As for yours truly , yes , there is someone who I met quite recently , who probably needs me no more than I need her , someone who brings out my poetic streak , and makes me believe in the little people . ’ |
| 4 | That she has so kindly obliged me this evening , and on Twelfth Night of all nights causes me no small surprise . ’ |
| 5 | If your hair causes you no concern , count yourself lucky . |
| 6 | But at the work-place the pursuit of profit allows him no time to be distracted with personal pursuits better attended to elsewhere . |
| 7 | This is an example of an attempt to grapple with the issue of discontinuity from within a problematic which allows it no space . |
| 8 | I , I mean , I think he he shows her no encouragement |
| 9 | The poem enacts various creations as parts of an apparently continuing ritual pattern ; it is polyphiloprogenitive in detailing the creation of the Word , Origen , the painting , and flowers ; we seem able to trace all back to their cause , yet ultimately the cause is only a formal utterance , ‘ In the beginning was the Word ’ , whose repetition takes us no further . |
| 10 | To publish falsely , of an Irish priest , that he informed on members of the IRA is not defamatory : it may cause him to be executed by terrorists , but the law offers him no way of securing a correction . |
| 11 | When Sir Oliver suggests asking eight or ten per cent on the loan , Mr Moses says if he asks him no more than that his impersonation will be discovered . |
| 12 | ‘ My heart misgave me when I saw his livery at Parfois , for Isambard is close and confidential with him , and sure they had some business between them that bodes us no good here in Wales . ’ |
| 13 | I know inside Mr Crangle is curious only as to what I 'm like and wishes me no real harm , but there are others who do . ’ |
| 14 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
| 15 | Differentiation theory , on the other hand , while allowing that these associations are likely to be formed during training , gives them no special role in acquired distinctiveness . |
| 16 | We use some of them in " polite " society or in a scientific context , but this gives them no absolute value . |
| 17 | Gives them no peace . " |
| 18 | It can also be said that , unlike Winckelmann , Hölderlin has some intuitive appreciation of the Greek spirit 's darker depths to which Nietzsche will later attach the name " flionysiac " — although Hölderlin gives them no such definition , and only in the last draft of his unfinished dramatic poem , The Death of Empedocles , do these depths receive a comparably urgent emphasis . |
| 19 | ‘ Lone and level sands ’ — that 's Ozymandias , you know — but it really gives you no idea . |
| 20 | Lissa said with crushing force , ‘ Whether or not she is your sister gives you no right to make slanderous , evil accusations . |
| 21 | Though a newcomer to 500s , the Aussie reckons the Honda gives him no other choice ( Doohan has even lowered gearbox ratios to encourage wheelspin to help turn the bike ) . |
| 22 | The statute gives him no such say . |
| 23 | If someone other than the buyer was injured by the goods , the Sale of Goods Act gives him no rights . |
| 24 | The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion . |
| 25 | I recognised at school that I had the talent to become a politician when , at the end of a particularly bad term , the headmaster wrote on my report , ’ One can not help but be quite captivated by him , provided one gives him no work to do . ’ |
| 26 | She responds to a comment by the monk on how she appears to have passed the night in sexual " labour " by bemoaning what she suffers as a wife , implying that her husband gives her no pleasure in bed and is mean with his money . |
| 27 | Just because Council is delegated in the matter of routine gives it no right to assume such a role when it proposes such a mammoth commitment . |
| 28 | He gives it no emphasis , does n't try to persuade . |
| 29 | What evidence do we have that the alien means us no harm ? |
| 30 | Locke suggests that his corpuscular account of objects , and our perception of them , gives us no reason to think of snow 's coldness and whiteness like this . |