Example sentences of "[verb] have no [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am assured by Mr Mates that he has had no financial involvement with Mr Nadir , nor with any of his companies or with his advisers , either before he became a minister or since , ’ said Mr Major . |
| 2 | Thus , although the Labour movement has had no great success in squeezing the capitalists until the pips squeak , its leaders can point to a variety of real improvements in the living standards of the working class as good reason for continued support for their moderating policy . |
| 3 | Argentina has recently been paying the banks $40m a month ( equivalent to three days of the monthly amount due ) , but has had no formal discussions with its banks about a rescheduling . |
| 4 | ‘ A lot of people are fed up with a whole range of changes which appear to have no philosophical direction to them , ’ he said . |
| 5 | As Buxbaum suggests , ‘ [ s ] ince takeovers appear to have no systematic impact on weak management or suboptimal resource use … takeover threats can not affect management behaviour except in an inconsistent manner . |
| 6 | Despite the undeniable interest and importance of semantic and statistical studies of language , they appear to have no direct relevance to the problem of determining or characterising the set of grammatical utterances . |
| 7 | The evidence available shows that school provision could have a marked impact on the way in which special needs arise , and can be met ; yet schools appear to have no clear view on what provision is the most effective . |
| 8 | These can be substantial — one , at least , reaches over a million entries — but — they appear to have no obvious advantage over the databases described above , except , perhaps , when they afford the prospect of immediate supply from stock of titles held in their files . |
| 9 | Mercer Lorrimore in his turn and with a smile said his horse was called Voting Right , and no , he 'd had no advance notice of any attack . |
| 10 | Perhaps he 'd had no real intention of stuffing her up her back passage . |
| 11 | William seemed to have no other source of income at present . |
| 12 | In summary , acute cigarette smoking caused a significant fall in Vg but seemed to have no significant effect upon transpyloric fluid shifts . |
| 13 | On the whole the teachers interviewed had no major concerns over the introduction of LMS . |
| 14 | The existence of a neurological deficit was also shown to have no significant effect on basal UOS pressure . |
| 15 | There was no clear relationship between the severity of portal hypertension and the prevalence of haemorrhoids , which have previously been shown to have no direct communication with the portal vein . |
| 16 | In the Aube département between Bar-sur-Aube and Bar-sur-Seine , the patches of vine are even more scattered and , although the best sites face south-east , most seem to have no general trend of aspect . |
| 17 | Elsewhere he remarks , " we seem to have no other criterion for truth and reason than the type and kind of opinions and customs current in the land where we live . |
| 18 | Indeed , some verbs seem to have no lexical content beyond one which is aimed at providing some kind of reservation about applicability of the adjectival property , examples being become and turn which place a temporal restriction on the adjective 's applicability ; the subordinate property only holds after the time indicated by the tense of the verb . |
| 19 | It has remained a corn mill throughout its working life , having had no known connection with the wool trade . |
| 20 | Deprived — fortunately as it turned out , for otherwise he would have had no spare time at all — of the pleasures of the rugby field , he played a little squash and tennis ( developing his ‘ cannonball serve : that 's all you need , see : they never get it back ’ ) and ‘ chatting up ’ . |
| 21 | She may be surprised , disconcerted ; she may even have had no conscious intention of getting involved with this particular man . |
| 22 | Had he had the same nightmare at any other time , it might have had no particular meaning to him at all . |
| 23 | The petition must state : ( i ) the amount of the debt ( in sterling , converted from any foreign currency at the official exchange rate at the date of issue of the petition , by analogy with r 6.111 ) , the consideration for it ( or , if there is no consideration , the way in which it arises ) and the fact that it is owed to the petitioner ; ( ii ) when the debt was incurred or became due ; ( iii ) if the debt includes interest or any other charge accruing from time to time , the amount or rate of the charge ( separately identified ) and the grounds upon which it is claimed to form part of the debt provided that , in the case of a petition based upon a statutory demand , only the interest claimed in the demand is included ; ( iv ) that the debt is unsecured , and either that the debt is for a liquidated sum payable immediately and the debtor appears to be unable to pay it , or that the debt is for a liquidated sum payable at some certain future specified time and the debtor appears to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay it . |
| 24 | If the petition is presented in respect of a debt payable at some future time , it being claimed that the debtor appears to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay it , the court may , on the debtor 's application , order that security for the debtor 's costs be given , and no hearing of the petition can take place until the security has been given . |
| 25 | He appears to have no interpretative hang-ups about the music , nor attempts to project an individuality by resorting to mere effects and temperamental show . |
| 26 | Brown ( 1990 ) , on the other hand , uses ‘ paralinguistic ’ to include what I call ‘ prosodic ’ , and appears to have no separate term for non-linguistic vocal effects . |
| 27 | Tim Corrigan , the Barman , is another somewhat colourless personality who appears to have no strong views on anything other than racing form , of which he is a devoted follower . |
| 28 | Though ‘ poireau ’ , the French word closest in sound to the name Christie chose , with its double meanings of ‘ leek ’ and ‘ wart ’ , appears to have no obvious connection with the detective , the word ‘ poirier ’ , meaning a ‘ pear-tree ’ offers a much more fruitful area for investigation . |
| 29 | Truth is similarly found to have no real status in the literary text . |
| 30 | It seems to have no geographical place in the real world but is merely the product of the poet 's imagination . |