Example sentences of "[been] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there have been no credible claims of responsibility , and the use of Pentrite suggests to secret service investigators that it may not have been aimed at French national interests but at someone on the aircraft . |
| 2 | There has been no credible claim of responsibility so far for the blasts , many of which were caused by car bombs not previously used in India . |
| 3 | Although alcohol is undoubtedly excreted in the urine and could theoretically act as an inflammatory agent in a case of urethritis , it is probably enough to reduce alcohol intake rather than cut it out altogether — there have been no convincing scientific trials to show that alcohol consumption delays resolution of urethritis . |
| 4 | Ever since the spring of 1918 , when pacifist hopes that a ‘ peace between equals ’ could indeed turn the First World War into a ‘ war to end war ’ had been finally dashed , there had been no convincing reason to believe that a second global bloodletting could be avoided . |
| 5 | In inflammatory bowel disease there has been no convincing and reproducible abnormality in studies of peripheral blood counts of T anb B cells , and the ratios of CD4 + /CD8 + T cells are also normal . |
| 6 | There 's been no immediate comment from the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital . |
| 7 | If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority . |
| 8 | But there had been no overall review in recent times of the problem of crime and criminals by an independent and authoritative body . |
| 9 | There has thus been no overall change in balances at the Bank of England , but banks ' holdings of call notes and bills have risen . |
| 10 | he would have had fucking pen there would have been no working for them ! |
| 11 | Cos I do n't , I , I believe there 's been , there 've been no firm proposals for that site yet ? |
| 12 | They had had no indication that anything had gone wrong , but there had been no firm news from Stockholm since before the flight . |
| 13 | Indeed , a similar interpretation was put forward by President de Klerk yesterday when he said that there had been no firm agreement on power-sharing and stressed the need for the resumption of multi-party talks . |
| 14 | There have been no controlled trials of the Gerson therapy . |
| 15 | Other studies suggest that cyclosporin is of therapeutic value in ulcerative colitis , but there have been no controlled trials . |
| 16 | As of end-January , however , there had been no Israeli retaliation , despite the Israeli government 's previous public position ( as expressed by President Chaim Herzog on Jan. 15 ) that an Iraqi strike would encounter a " calculated and strong " response . |
| 17 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 18 | In accordance with the FDR-FMLN programme , there have been no wholesale expropriations and private land is respected : |
| 19 | There has been no political pressure from the Foreign Office or elsewhere to prevent the exhibition . |
| 20 | If there had been no political factor in the equation , it is unlikely that Profumo would have been ruined in the way he was and tortured for years by a newspaper interest which has survived until the present day . |
| 21 | This has made it difficult for Britain to compete on the world market , and this in turn has eventually led to a worse slump and level of unemployment than would otherwise have been the case had there been no political intervention in the working of the naturally self-regulating free economy of the market . |
| 22 | Do we not have to include there having been no general power failure in South-east England , and the absence of an earth tremor that would have shifted whatever it was that first ignited , and the earth 's not being destroyed by a nuclear explosion ? |
| 23 | There has been no general attempt to rewrite the history of the period from a perspective based on changes in consumption and material culture ( though see Mukerji 1983 ) , but two examples may be suggestive , the first derived from historians and the second from studies of material culture . |
| 24 | To date , despite a wealth of experience , there has been no standard approach that adequately covers all the varied aspects of value for money auditing . |
| 25 | As yet there has been no other attempt to describe so vividly in dance the wish of any character , but in this case a puppet , to escape from prison . |
| 26 | There had been no other woman in his life for quite a time . |
| 27 | There had been no other people on the premises where the two men were arrested . |
| 28 | The torpedo must have been dropped in the Harbour — there would have been no other reason for entering the Harbour . |
| 29 | The problem for would-be physiological psychologists is that until relatively recently there have been no other natural phenomena or man-made devices that we understand better than human behaviour that could act as a model or analogy . |
| 30 | Apart from the scholarships granted by DGX ( see article on heritage ) there have been no other specific measures . |