Example sentences of "and no [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 No study has been conducted in other areas in Spain where the cuckoo is sympatric with several potential hosts , and no corvids other than magpies have been observed to breed at Sante Fe .
2 They dressed and lit him against his character — softening where they ought to have emphasised the toughness — and they gave him a part with no verbal bite and no guts but even so it was not a bad first break for the boy from the snooker halls of Port Talbot .
3 I started nagging him about money , about not having a proper job and no guts to get one …
4 Unlike London , there were no evacuees and no sandbags .
5 Yarnell decided to prove his point so he detached two aircraft carriers , the Saratoga and Lexington and a few destroyers from his battle fleet and set sail for Oahu in poor weather conditions , radio silence and no lights .
6 The fishhouse is insulated ( the ceiling had to be lowered ) and heated by a boiler — there are no heaters in the tanks and no lights , filters or centralised system .
7 There was no moon , and no lights were visible anywhere .
8 Old-fashioned , not too demanding , and no drunks .
9 It MUST be in colour , and no professionals , please .
10 And no herbicides to kill weeds and no pesticides .
11 As far as wound cleansing is concerned , 93 per cent of leg ulcers were managed in line with research recommendations and no nurses currently used hypochlorites .
12 The scoreboard read one over gone , two wickets down and no runs scored .
13 We shall characterise such a view as the sentence-as-object view , and note that such sentence-objects have no producers and no receivers .
14 Instead , ECOVER uses only natural plant extracts for perfumes and no colourings at all .
15 This is not to say that there are ideas and no things : that would be the ultimate scepticism .
16 Both of the female Cabinet members appointed in 1989 ( in an effort to counter the popularity of Ms Doi ) were dropped from the government , and no women were included in the new Cabinet which was sworn in by Emperor Akihito on Feb. 28 .
17 When she was older she would live in it all on her own and there would be no milk allowed in the door , and no clothes hangers .
18 There is plenty of room to work around it in safety and no clothes horse to fall over !
19 My mother is wont to say , ‘ Ooh , I love a good film , ’ and although her idea of a good film generally involves Barbara Stanwyck losing life , love and dignity in a plain brown felt hat , and mine involves Daniel Day Lewis in a Czechoslovakian accent , moody lighting and no clothes , I sort of agree with her .
20 Fo to make sh little nappies for the baby that was just been born and no clothes ready or fo and I 've I 've seen her you know as poor as we were my mam would sit there was patching sheets and er but I 've seen them whipped off the bed and put on somebody 's bed while they were having a baby or whatever .
21 Guy supplied grimly , dropping a possessive kiss on her mouth , ‘ Since I arrived in St Lucia for a spell of solitary soul-searching , and an evil-tempered harpy with a mop of red hair and no clothes on leapt off my bed and started calling me rude names … ’
22 Many of the pupils have to walk up to two hours through the bush to get to a school with only one textbook and no pens . ’
23 In Leningrad 's crowded streets a tram or bus ride is a virtual eyeball-to-eyeball body massage with the natives , while on the Metro , with the escalators descending at breakneck speed , there is little chance of a retreat and no toilets .
24 May I have a simple answer , yes or no , and no shenanigans ?
25 He had n't been welcome then , was n't welcome now , but he had n't pushed his luck as hard when the target had been a corporation and no casualties , as when the target had been an American government servant , dead .
26 The arterial road was to be reserved for heavy traffic between towns ; restricted points of access to twin carriageways would permit no building frontages , no standing vehicles and no pedestrians .
27 With a fresh crop of newly-qualifieds hitting the market and no vacancies to fill , firms are making further redundancies , ceasing to renew training contracts — sometimes even terminating the contract early on the grounds that there is no work — and beginning to offer part-time employment as an alternative .
28 The road from the town that goes east towards Drangajökull has collapsed and no buses or lorries can get through .
29 And , and no mines or minerals underneath the ground , can that have a lot of primary industry ?
30 No material is given about their activities as Mufti , and no anecdotes are related about them in their capacity as Mufti , though something is related about each in his capacity as kadi .
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