Example sentences of "has no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It seems probable , then , that a belief can only be genuinely infallible if it has no content at all . |
| 32 | Until we have such a conception we can not describe the original sensation to ourselves ; it is just a useless this , for the concept of the sensation has no content until the rules have been set up . |
| 33 | The room has no corners , no walls — it goes on for ever , it merges with a moonlit garden . |
| 34 | Although the opposing team has no chance of winning , any attempt to withdraw your remaining team-member(s) may well be rewarded by disqualification of the entire team for bad sportsmanship . |
| 35 | ‘ If she is not prepared to play with another German player sometimes on the circuit then the German team has no chance in the future to win the Cup , ’ Hofsaess added . |
| 36 | He has no chance of facing the tourists after suffering his fourth shoulder dislocation in Llanelli 's narrow home win over Neath and has been warned by doctors that unless he has a second operation he may never play again . |
| 37 | ‘ Ferrari , with Prost and Alesi as a suppressed number two , has no chance . |
| 38 | The bid , understood to be only around £300,000 , has no chance of acceptance by the Glasgow club . |
| 39 | Charles Benson in the Daily Express on the morning of the race had baldly written : ‘ Foinavon has no chance . |
| 40 | Only the RIBA is standing somewhat aloof , even though it has no chance of funding a new ‘ architecture centre ’ , intended to house the splendid Drawings Collection at its Portland Place headquarters . |
| 41 | Now a busy soul has no chance against one who is supremely idle . |
| 42 | Reflection is pooh-poohed , and understanding is put into a state of suspended animation , so that it has no chance to develop in its complexity , realism or power . |
| 43 | ‘ But they ca n't just be an end resort , when the venture has no chance anyway . |
| 44 | An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . |
| 45 | Under the current housing rules , she has no chance of being rehoused in the near future in a low-rise block in one of the decent areas of Birkenhead , or of gaining a house with a garden . |
| 46 | The spoon-player has no chance . |
| 47 | In the present climate of political thinking the Shropshire Metro has no chance of gestation . |
| 48 | ‘ It might be hard to fit ‘ Worthington ’ onto the back of a shirt — but Chris Bart-Williams has no chance ! ’ said Nigel . |
| 49 | And Fogarty , who rides the ‘ works ’ Ducati feels that he , for one , has no chance against the GP machine . |
| 50 | The totally original , offbeat research proposal , particularly in the fundamental , or non-applied research field , has no chance whatsoever of attracting sufficient peer group support to attract funding . |
| 51 | Here the infinitive 's event is treated as a possibility that has no chance of being real — as something which is impossible , absurd — which shows that the infinitive is clearly capable of expressing a potentiality all by itself . |
| 52 | Manager Ray McHale has now admitted that the club has no chance of reaching the play-offs . |
| 53 | ‘ It 's as if there are two markets : the performance that the second liners offer has no relationship with blue chips , ’ one market maker said . |
| 54 | Even experienced report writers often find that their thoughts have rushed ahead of them and there is the occasional sentence that has no relationship to the rest . |
| 55 | There are important languages only spoken in their countries of origin — Japanese , for instance , and Korean ; some Pacific languages unrelated to each other or to any other linguistic group on earth : Ainu , for example , which is not spoken outside Hokkaido Island in Japan and has no relationship at all to Japanese ; and Gilyak , which is used only by a very few people on Sakhalin Island — a place known only as being the birthplace of the actor Yul Brynner , and near where the Korean airliner KE 007 was shot down in 1983 . |
| 56 | Each entity , or group , is uniquely defined and has no relationship to any other in the file ( except as a consequence of file order ) . |
| 57 | But Kemp has no space for theory , nor inclination to show Wells in his time , one among other writers . |
| 58 | But it is not true that Freudian theory has no space for ideas of unity or autonomy . |
| 59 | Their culture has no rights , no claim to an alternative identity . |
| 60 | The other only buys the grass each summer and has no rights at all over the land . |