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

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1 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 .
2 Paul Fisher exclaimed as she went quickly past him , but his ‘ wow ’ meant nothing to her other than that , unfortunately , his carpeting of a week last Friday had had no lasting effect .
3 ‘ The annual changes of any of the [ bibliometric ] indicators considered had no statistical significance , and no trend distinguishable from the effect of random fluctuations could be observed ’ .
4 William seemed to have no other source of income at present .
5 The companies involved have no technical experience of Windows and could n't guarantee its future . ’
6 The companies involved have no technical experience of Windows and could n't guarantee its future . ’
7 Jake had had no real friends except Ben ; he had often been at the house in those old days , never saying much , but good at mending broken toys and constructing dolls out of handkerchiefs and folded paper .
8 The file hat shown that Miss Tuckey had had no official connection with the Intelligence Service since turning town a bedroom job there in 1946 , the year Marriage himself had joined them .
9 The Court of Appeal upheld the defendant 's conviction because there was ample evidence that a purchaser would understand the description ‘ new ’ to indicate that the vehicle had had no previous owner and no previous registered keeper .
10 Where the Bill has been before a standing committee , so that Members not on the committee have had no previous opportunity to speak on the minutiae of the Bill , there is now an opportunity for them to make their points .
11 In the Dodds case the House of Lords stated that if the month in which the period expires has no corresponding date because it is too short , the period given by the notice ends on the last day of that month , ie 28 February or 29 February in a leap year .
12 If the teacher had had no obvious part in planning or organising an activity , it was difficult to see what might be learnt from it that would be of help to other teachers .
13 Young lads who up to this point have had no real demands made on them by society , who have been spoiled and indulged by their mothers , who have followed their own inclinations entirely and have been tolerated in nearly everything , suddenly and incomprehensibly find that they are the subjects of a spiteful atrocity in which they are abused , assaulted , victimized , mutilated and sometimes threatened with death itself .
14 Chi kung has no complicated movements involved and no exertion or physical force is applied to the muscles , joints or limbs .
15 Hand is absolutely correct , in discussing subjective ‘ assessments ’ of thesis use , in saying that ‘ The observations appeared to have no experimental basis at all , as demonstrated by the estimates for derived publications ’ .
16 390 the wife had had no independent advice but she did , as the jury found , understood what she was doing .
17 For too long managers have had no authoritative body to express their views or air their grievances .
18 THE House will wish to know that the decision to separate has no constitutional implications … there is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned Queen in due course .
19 THE House will wish to know that the decision to separate has no constitutional implications … there is no reason why the Princess of Wales should not be crowned Queen in due course .
20 The House will wish to know that the decision to separate has no constitutional implications .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 On the whole the teachers interviewed had no major concerns over the introduction of LMS .
26 When they arrive there , they may well wonder why they have come , for Leck Fell at first sight appears to have no compelling attractions , certainly no obvious ones .
27 His life seems to have no particular routine apart from his work .
28 A recurring complaint was that the letter was from someone with whom wholesalers had had no previous contact .
29 In fact , the Government have had no industrial policy since being elected in 1979 .
30 Clive Wearing has no short-term memory , the result of a virus which attacked his brain , and he needs twenty-four-hour care and attention .
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