Example sentences of "[verb] no [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand Turkey holds no attraction for the out-of-contract striker , who has refused to sign a one-year deal at Anfield . |
| 2 | The system set up by the National Insurance Act 1911 was continued under the subsequent amending legislation , but the benefits dealt with were insurance benefits and provided no help for the uninsured . |
| 3 | Not only that , but on hatching , the young cuckoo throws out the host species ' own eggs or young so that it has no competition for the foster parents ' time and attention . |
| 4 | A mechanism is therefore suggested such that a protein that has no affinity for the double stranded PPT element can interact specifically with one DNA strand after formation of the cruciform . |
| 5 | He has no taste for the new world , either in Africa or in Europe . |
| 6 | He has no time for the factory-made products of China , Pakistan or Morocco . |
| 7 | This bear of a man clearly has no time for the smug certainties peddled by the top pop politicos … |
| 8 | He has no time for the fair-weather aid groups , who will only go to Romania in the summer and is annoyed by those who deliver basic supplies , take a few pictures and never return . |
| 9 | Mr Murray has no time for the fashionable preoccupations of academic critics or for the dead-end road of existentialism . |
| 10 | If , for example , they are tested with full-strength or even half-strength milk , they show no preference for the more or the less sweetened examples . |
| 11 | She 'd lived in Leningrad for ten years but she 'd had no work for the last two of them . |
| 12 | They are the only two post-war premiers to have had no time for the black arts of political news management and personal public relations . |
| 13 | It was true he had had no stomach for the pallid lamb chops that he had been offered for lunch . |
| 14 | As Keynes wrote " 'The Treaty includes no provision for the economic rehabilitation of Europe , nor does it promote in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the allies themselves ; no arrangement was reached at Paris to adjust the system of the Old World and the New " . |
| 15 | ‘ Some people 'ave got no respect for the dead . ’ |
| 16 | But of course the problems are with this contract that it would n't suit everybody , one because you 've got no access for the ten years , you 've bought the contract up front , and if you want access to it , it 's very limited and of course if you cash an endowment early as we know it 'd damage the , the er the income sorry the , the growth at the end of the plan . |
| 17 | The Central Committee of the British Party showed no enthusiasm for the new policy and were reluctant to declare " all-out war " on their comrades in the unions and local Labour parties . |
| 18 | It made no sense for the British army to hand over Yugoslav royalists to Tito 's communists , he said . |
| 19 | Gates praised the report , but made no apology for the aggressive style and reputation of his force . |
| 20 | I made no protest for the simplest of all reasons — that I shared the Chancellor 's judgment that it was necessary to raise taxes in the Budget . ’ |
| 21 | As is common practice , Landlords kept the tenant 's deposit of £650 and told Debbie they would take their entire fee of £881 up front , so she expected no rent for the first month . |
| 22 | Above all , he offers no panacea for the unemployed . |
| 23 | It is a fact that lists of exam results make no allowance for the academic levels of a school 's intake of pupils . |
| 24 | Or are we seeing yet another example of the application of double standards , with Ministers providing no money for the public sector , while sending their own children to school in the private sector ? |
| 25 | The legislation offered no compensation for the estimated 3,500,000 blacks dispossessed of their land since 1950 . |
| 26 | Mrs Shahidi , of Herne Hill , south-east London , who lost £121,000 , and Moussa Armand , 70 , of Acton , west London , who lost £300,000 , intend to eat no food for the next seven days as part of the long-running campaign to persuade ministers to provide more help for BCCI victims . |
| 27 | After two near-misses in 1986 and 1987 Mansell 's Williams-Judd proved no match for the powerful McLarens of Prost ( FRA ) and Ayrton Senna ( BRA ) in 1988 . |
| 28 | The university gave no reason for the temporary suspension . |
| 29 | Many homes , in Great Britain at least ( and perhaps this is more true of the private sector ) , still offer no privacy for the elderly who do not have their own rooms , who have no locks on the lavatories and who have to suffer the indignity of being bathed and examined by a non-qualified member of staff of the opposite sex . |
| 30 | ‘ He seems to have no feeling for the narrow plank one walks between fulfilment and stalemate … for mystery , for hope and wonder . |