Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [adv] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leger Gallery was founded in 1892 by Joseph Leger , whose activities were ‘ modest as a dealer in the period up to the end of the Great War and typical of an age in which there were few private clients and virtually no museum purchases ’ astonishing in view of the purchasing possibilities at the time . |
| 2 | Ms or Mr Trim wakes up for an early morning drink , has tea or coffee with either no milk or skimmed milk and definitely no sugar . |
| 3 | There was steady light drizzle and virtually no wind but the ebb carried them comfortably down the channel to the first turn in front of the clubhouse , after which the doldrums set in . |
| 4 | For the first few months of the campaign they had very few weapons and virtually no ammunition . |
| 5 | There are few cars here , though lots of bicycles , very few dogs and almost no dog mess ( even the horse-drawn buggies for tourist joyrides have built-in pooper scoopers ) . |
| 6 | Thus there was no House of Commons scrutiny of public expenditure and virtually no understanding of how the decisions had been reached . |
| 7 | The Mark III version of the Marsh machine went into commercial production and now no gentleman 's laboratory is complete without one . |
| 8 | In the US , there was no intense Lockerbie-type investigation and almost no press interest . |
| 9 | At international level there is very limited co-operation and virtually no co-ordination . |
| 10 | Unlike the laws of menstruation and childbirth , it had never been as intimately linked to cultic activity/purity and so no recasting was required following the events of 70 AD . |
| 11 | It had no national coinage and possibly no taxation system . |
| 12 | There is little scope and seemingly no consideration for a contract by the valuer as principal . |
| 13 | The reason being that probably for the last 50 years the sewers have been provided free : they have outlived any associated loans and so no charge has been made to the revenue accounts . |
| 14 | A bad burn could mean no usable clinker and hence no pay . |
| 15 | In otder to minimise the influence of complications from the initial bleed , patients were only considered to be eligible for entry into the trial once they were stable with no evidence of any bleeding for five days and also no evidence of any other destabilising medical conditions ( such as septicaemia and renal failure ) . |
| 16 | I once heard Dr Starkie lecture , and I 'm glad to report that she had an atrocious French accent ; one of those deliveries full of dame-school confidence and absolutely no ear , swerving between workaday correctness and farcical error , often within the same word . |
| 17 | Living next door to the churchyard , I was also interested in the occasional work of the gravedigger , and after school hours would help him with the digging or the filling in of a grave , again without any sadness and certainly no feeling of fear . |
| 18 | Magistrates were frequently transferred , and since they had little common training and virtually no supervision , they ran their courts differently . |
| 19 | Now tax on electric , gas , and every other fuel and still no shouting . |
| 20 | No close scrutiny and therefore no exposure age has been established . |
| 21 | 50 years of internecine warfare and still no armistice . |
| 22 | The reason why there is no increase in output is that the typical supplier has correctly realized that the price on his island is rising at the same rate as the average level of prices , and there has therefore been no change in his relative price and so no incentive to raise output above its natural level . |