Example sentences of "had no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 5 per cent of the children saw their parents as often as once a month ; 41 per cent had no parental contact . |
| 2 | At that point people were not giving much for his chances , but luckily he had no internal injuries . |
| 3 | Cley 's chambers had no internal lighting . |
| 4 | He realised it would not matter at all that they had no bathing costumes . |
| 5 | His distraught mother , Marion , said her son , a YTP worker , was ‘ totally innocent ’ and had no paramilitary connections . |
| 6 | I thought that Heathcliffe had no redeeming features at all . |
| 7 | Our patient thus had no primary systemic disorder , other than PBC , that would have resulted in PHT . |
| 8 | The Labour Party was weak in this rural constituency and had no prospective candidate and hardly any organization . |
| 9 | He had no real friends and was difficult . |
| 10 | Marx pours scorn on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophers , such as the utilitarians , who believed that ideas and values had no real significance but were a mere reflection of natural conditions . |
| 11 | Unlike the kids in Lord of the Flies we had no real problems , but the remoteness does make me anti-social . |
| 12 | Any chance of the former had been negated by Britain 's failure to topple Nasser at Suez ; and the latter was unlikely for some years because the aircraft did not , as yet , exist ; and the RAF had no real enthusiasm for providing the necessary money to buy them out of Air votes , which they quite naturally wanted to use for combat and not transport aircraft . |
| 13 | After all , I had no real claim upon your attention , and I knew I meant so little to you I could be dropped at any moment without a second thought . |
| 14 | He would have liked to say I 'd rather you stayed , except that he had no real reason , or no reason he could give her easily . |
| 15 | As she went to the market with Ferdinando , each shopping for their respective households — though since hers had shrunk to nothing Wilson had no real need to make the daily pilgrimage — the excitement was unmistakable and so was its nature . |
| 16 | A large , fleshy , amiable bloke with a shock of gingery brown hair and a chummy manner which concealed a burning desire to be somebody , to get on in the world , Mick ( how his new girlfriend , Amanda , hated that nickname ! ) had no real interest in the ideological struggle . |
| 17 | The official appeared to ponder — I had the feeling that the pause was histrionic rather than meditative — and I was aware that he had no real concern . |
| 18 | I was eyeballing distances at that time , and had no real idea how far Roberto had to clear the out-of-bounds and a wee bank that ran round the hole , but we had a strong breeze behind us going from right to left . |
| 19 | As a youth , he was never an avid record collector and he had no real interest in applying himself to mastering an instrument . |
| 20 | ‘ At the time I had no real plans but just knew I wanted to be in a group . |
| 21 | He was obviously so happy and content in himself and his vocation that he had no real worry about being himself — even in the pulpit . |
| 22 | He was a man twenty years older than most of us who , though he held a junior rank and had no real ties with the service , had obtained considerable influence with the senior officers in the camp . |
| 23 | They ran from St. Mark 's Church to Wilton , were open tops and the poor drivers not only had no real cabs but also had to share their outside bench seats with passengers at busy times . |
| 24 | Questions which had no real purpose in the first place are unlikely to be easy to analyse at the answer stage since the researcher is seeking for answers to his hypotheses which will show whether they are to be substantiated or not . |
| 25 | Somehow she had no real doubts as to whether Mr Tom O'Neill was genuine . |
| 26 | Although they often discussed the possibility and even went to view farms that were advertised to let , they loved Cherry Tree Farm and had no real wish to leave it . |
| 27 | The sadness seemed to extinguish her as if she had no real eyes or fingers or genitals or teeth or frown-lines or kidneys but these were just slight irregularities in the sponge that was her sadness . |
| 28 | John Major had no real choice of date this time , but March and April gave him such a nail-biting experience that he will never again postpone an election until so near the terminal date . |
| 29 | The National Union of Teachers claimed the results had no real value as no allowances were made for factors such as the number of pupils with English as a second language . |
| 30 | He had no real gift for the dramatic and could not to contend with his young competitor Joshua Reynolds in the Grand Manner . |