Example sentences of "it [vb past] no " in BNC.
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1 | And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid . |
2 | It got no easier . |
3 | It experienced no problems but found the fuel too expensive , at about 24 pence a litre compared to 10 pence a litre for diesel . |
4 | It disclosed no reasonable cause of action and was frivolous and vexatious . |
5 | The defendants sought to have the claim struck out on the ground that it disclosed no cause of action . |
6 | By summons , issued on 15 March 1991 , the third , fourth and fifth defendants asked , first , for an order that the action be struck out against them on the ground that it disclosed no reasonable cause of action or , alternatively , that paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer be struck out . |
7 | July 26 , 1976 The barrister successfully applied to have the third party notice struck out on the grounds that it disclosed no cause of action . |
8 | The largest was at Gretna on the Solway Firth and it became no less than a State-developed new town , south-west of the existing village . |
9 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
10 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |
11 | I did try on a couple of occasions to wind the engine up past the 5000rpm mark , where the torque curve begins to fall away rapidly , but it produced no more performance than was available by driving the car sensibly for economy . |
12 | Whilst the admission of the Law Lords made available to the House one particular type of needed expertise , it effected no significant general improvement . |
13 | We hid but it made no difference , they still found us . |
14 | It made no express reference to proceedings between a named representative of a class and a member of that class who might well have sharply different interests , as betweeen themselves , as to the substance of the plaintiff 's claim . |
15 | Now White was fit — but it made no difference . |
16 | This witticism received rapturous applause and left his speechwriters beaming , no one seemingly bothered by the fact that it made no sense . |
17 | Knee-high to a gnat but it made no difference . |
18 | Volvo 's two-litre B200 engine had always been smoother than the bigger-bore 2.3 , but it made no more than an adequate job of hauling the corpulent 940 . |
19 | Eileen was dead and it made no difference at all . |
20 | It made no sense for the British army to hand over Yugoslav royalists to Tito 's communists , he said . |
21 | The society argues that the assessment was inaccurate and inadequate , particularly as it made no mention of potentially toxic chemicals . |
22 | Furthermore , David McHarg , clerk of the course at Kelso and other Scottish tracks , said that when the transport allowances from the Levy Board were cut off it made no difference whatsoever to the number of runners . |
23 | The British Minister for Sport , Hector Monro , pointed out that the Gleneagles agreement was irrelevant here as it made no reference to actions by one country against the nationals of another , but on 26 February the British High Commissioner in Georgetown was notified that Jackman 's visitor 's permit had been withdrawn and he must leave the country . |
24 | Rain caused delays at Lord 's so that the match had to be carried over till Sunday , but it made no difference to Richards . |
25 | Well , I did find that , and the love of bad men , too , but it made no difference . |
26 | But it made no difference . |
27 | It made no sense to buy a chair like that . |
28 | It did not seem to be of any consequence , for it made no immediate difference . |
29 | It made no sense to her , but then it never had . |
30 | Its lack of significance is that it made no real difference to the political situation , except for putting the burgh of Edinburgh through a rapid change of councils and giving it the burden of housing the army of the Congregation . |