Example sentences of "given no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was given no chance to escape , would say nothing at all as to what he was doing living in the graveyard and was locked in a cell at the police-station . |
| 2 | The residues of this débâcle survive today in the regime 's mistrust of its people , its dread of weakness , and its determination that an alternative ideology be given no chance to emerge in the country . |
| 3 | A month later , Carina was taken home in a wheelchair , but given no chance of walking again . |
| 4 | In F C Gardner Ltd v Beresford ( 1978 ) , the employee was given no pay increase for two years . |
| 5 | By contrast , in a preliminary report from Valencia , Perez-Aguilar and colleagues found only three recurrences in 12 post-dissolution patients ( 25% ) given 250 mg chenodeyxholic acid/day , compared with six recurrences in 10 patients ( 60% ) given no treatment . |
| 6 | Marco-Pierre White , chef/proprietor of Harveys I think the time is fast approaching when the lady must be given no choice . |
| 7 | The villagers seemed unimpressed , but were given no choice in the matter . |
| 8 | In those areas which the Department of the Environment designates as Housing Action Trusts — which will operate as independent agencies for renewal — tenants are to be given no choice , and nor are the councils from whose stock the Trusts are to be extracted . |
| 9 | Compelled , absolved , she had been given no choice . |
| 10 | Why should the poor child be pushed into the world , having been given no choice , no option , no chance of refusal ? |
| 11 | It should transpire that twice a week those who cared could learn to cook ; but apparently Millie herself was to be given no choice ; she was sent , with another five girls , to the kitchen at three o'clock and , there , came under the influence of Sister Cecilia , to whom God had given a nice nature and a light pair of hands with pastry . |
| 12 | Many patients are to be given no choice in where they have their operation . |
| 13 | On the other hand , in ( 141 ) the " she " is represented as exerting a direct influence on the speaker in order to bring about his carrying her upstairs : the suggestion is that the speaker was given no choice , that he was acting under coercion . |
| 14 | Here the impression is that the object of make is given no choice but to perform the action expressed by the infinitive : in ( 147 ) the speaker even uses make to decline any personal responsibility for what he did — he was " acting under coercion " , a paraphrase bringing out the concurrent nature of the causation involved in these sentences . |
| 15 | If the acquisition of latent inhibition by B blocks that by A , then these subjects should show more rapid conditioning to A than those given no experience of B before their AB trials . |
| 16 | Although they again found no difference between subjects given no pre-exposure and those exposed to a variety of flavours , interpretation of this finding is rendered equivocal by the fact that the two groups drank different amounts of the CS flavour on the conditioning trial . |
| 17 | What is more , the experimental results that have been taken to demonstrate that retrieval plays a part in latent inhibition can not demonstrate this failure to be the sole source of the effect — these experiments show that a CS-US association is indeed formed after latent inhibition training and can be revealed if the conditions of testing are appropriate ; they do not show convincingly that the association is just as strong as that formed in subjects given no pre-exposure to the target stimulus . |
| 18 | So he was , McLeish observed , the devil plainly being given no opportunity to find work for idle hands . |
| 19 | Already , there had been a steady flow of Norman families into the country from England , but they were thinly spread and had been given no opportunity to make an impact on Scottish society and administration . |
| 20 | Kate was given no opportunity to observe the reaction of anyone other than Lady Ursula to Paul Berowne 's death . |
| 21 | A copy of the notice served on the group of insurance companies was sent to W. Plc. but it was given no opportunity to make representations and it had no right of appeal under Lautro 's 1988 Rules . |
| 22 | But if there are n't enough staff to meet this approach , the result is a double stress for the nurse who is taught such an approach , but given no opportunity to put it into practice . |
| 23 | They are given no opportunity to touch the dead person or put something — a flower , a crucifix — into their hand to take to the grave . |
| 24 | The tribunal was influenced by the facts that the offence was unconnected with his job and he was given no opportunity to state his own case because he was in prison at the time of the dismissal decision . |
| 25 | " The Independent " argued that it could not in natural justice be bound by an order made against another newspaper , on different facts , and which it had been given no opportunity to oppose . |
| 26 | An example of subjective probability is as follows : the Production Manager of a fast-growing microcomputer manufacturer , whose production has increased by 50% in the past year , without additional capital investment , now estimates the probability of repeating that 50% growth rate as .4 , given no change in investment levels . |
| 27 | The safety of these same trees is being discussed at the Summit , yet those protecting them ( sometimes with their own lives ) , those in the front line against destruction of the rain forest , are being given no support form the host government . |
| 28 | The claims of those commentators ( for example Meager , 1985 ; LRD , 1987 ) who suggest there has been a growth in temporary working in recent years are given no support whatsoever by these results . |
| 29 | Twelve-week-old poodle pups , with hair and ear mites , sold directly to , or even worse , given as presents to frail OAPs who were given no idea of the amount of care the dogs ' ears will need every two or three weeks for the rest of their 16 year lives ? |
| 30 | The superiority of subjects given preliminary training in applying labels over control subjects given no pre-training has been repeatedly confirmed by experimenters using procedures closely similar to those just described ( Goss 1953 ; Smith and Goss 1955 ; Battig 1956 ; Holton and Goss 1956 ; Goss and Greenfield 1958 ) . |