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 .
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