Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I think my father 's authority was irrational because he expected me to have no other interests outside my schoolwork .
2 Because she had no man , Clare also suddenly found she had no public identity and was not likely to get asked to dinner parties , for society seemed to move only in couples .
3 Did he consider her to have no good qualities at all , to be so scornful of her ?
4 Patrick then found he had no French money .
5 The statements made which have no legal effect are often described as being mere " puffs " ( Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball [ 1893 ] 1 QB 256 ) .
6 Still , I hope I 've no false pride , and I 'm very pleased .
7 CROOKED tycoon Robert Maxwell 's widow wishes she could help the pensioners her husband robbed but says she has no spare money .
8 Do you assume you have no Christian believers among your readers or are you deliberately seeking to insult and estrange them ?
9 Focus itself has no fixed shape or set degree of sharpness or fuzziness but alternates according to the dictates of imagination , habit , or the limitations of the data .
10 Now he says he has no immediate plans for exit and has not ruled out a trade sale .
11 Mitac International Corp , Taipei , Taiwan is to merge its US units in order to strengthen its operations there : Compac Electronics Inc , American Mitac Corp , Mitac Research Corp and Microelectronics Inc will be merged under the Compac name : Mitac bought an 80% stake in Compac , which should not be confused with to Compaq Computer Corp but no doubt will , in 1991 ; it says it has no current plans to buy the remaining 20% from independent investors ; the merged company is expected to have turnover of $240m in 1993 , rising to $500m in 1996 , Mitac said .
12 The port authority says it has no immediate plans for developing more of Seal Sands .
13 The CT2 standard is used in some 20 countries , but AT&T says it has no immediate plans to market the telephones in the US , because the Federal Communications Commission has not approved CT2 phones for use in the US .
14 Milpitas , California-based Adaptec Inc says it has no immediate response to reports that competitor Distributed Processing Technology Inc , Maitland , Florida has slashed prices on its AT amd EISA disk controller boards : fear of a price war put Adaptec 's share price under pressure last week ; the company told Reuter ‘ Competitive pressure has always been there and we 'll respond as we always have ’ to it ; Adaptec 's manufacturing organisation could cut costs and pass the benefits onto its customers ; Distributed Processing is discounting its AT adaptors to $285 from $655 .
15 Hindley Foster had obviously perceived her dilemma and understood it , even though he had said he had no intimate knowledge of procreation .
16 EC commissioner Frans Andriessen , the EC 's chief negotiator , has said he has no immediate plans to meet US negotiators but developments could come today after a meeting of EC foreign ministers in Brussels .
17 She gave a wry little grin , realising she had no real plan of action in mind .
18 You can see I had no great hopes for my future as a woman .
19 All seven families with a transient result were interviewed to gain their perspective of the programme and ensure they had no lingering doubts about their sons ' health .
20 Non-abusing parents — mainly women — in the majority of cases stated they had no prior knowledge of untoward sexual behaviour prior to investigation .
21 After taking his trousers and underpants off-for the first time ever in front of someone who was n't a member of his family — he was told he had no transmittable diseases — whatever they were , thought Charlie .
22 She had been reluctant to put it away , wishing she had no other commitments so that she could continue with the next chapter and looking forward to getting down to work again the following morning .
23 Will my right hon. Friend make it clear whether his answer , which displayed an understandable degree of elegant procrastination , will lead to the Government saying that the Yugoslav federation as we know it has no diplomatic future ?
24 Her mother had known she had no immediate plans to go on holiday and had assumed she would be free to chase after Suzie .
25 Do you really enjoy the company of the person who is supposed to be accompanying you , or do you merely tolerate him or her because you feel you have no other choice ?
26 ‘ Make it known we have no shrouded corpses in this house ! ’
27 At length they would turn the mirror on themselves and find they had no real identity , no positive channel for their new-born sense of racial selfhood .
28 Police have scaled down the search for a multiple rapist saying they 've no new leads to follow .
29 Since she must have known he had no sexual interest in her , she did n't complain too much .
30 They have a contractual relationship with the firm , and as long as the contract is honoured they have no additional claim .
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