Example sentences of "but no [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Tivoli 's open till midnight — but no fireworks tonight ; or we could go out to dinner elsewhere . |
| 2 | But no bird can ever be guaranteed . |
| 3 | When the crisis broke , Baldwin showed annoyance at having his holiday in France interrupted , and deputed Chamberlain to act for him , giving him full powers but no instructions . |
| 4 | Under the captaincy of Tom Ingledew , the Hopewell had returned late , but safely , the first autumn of their occupancy of Everhope , laden with goods , with candles , skillets , nails , lace shirts , hats , hammers and other necessities of civilisation ( but no shoes , unfortunately ) , as well as several more of their countrymen willing to try their fortunes in the Americas . |
| 5 | He 's a great person — but no competition for Chris ! ’ |
| 6 | There was a crack , but no sepoy dropped dead ; the percussion cap had fired but not the pistol . |
| 7 | In France , some food imitations are forbidden — there 's mayonnaise but no salad cream . |
| 8 | 88110 machines are said to be ‘ on the way ’ , but no dates appear to have been set . |
| 9 | Acting on tip-offs from the public , they raided two homes in Wembley , finding false documents but no guns or ammunition . |
| 10 | This is a frank recognition of the tension created by cases where there is the supreme harm ( death ) combined with some culpability but no foresight of the risk of death . |
| 11 | Treacle sponge , £1.50 , had custard but no vinegar . |
| 12 | But no banning order was made . |
| 13 | Please can you tell me what has a mouth but no lip ? |
| 14 | As far as the eye could see the earth was brown : there were white pockets of unmelted snow , and sombre green pine thickets on the ridges , but no leaves on the deciduous trees and no bright green shoots in the withered remains of last year 's grass . |
| 15 | The picture turned out to be an abstract on a sporting theme , called Tennis , with nets and balls littered around but no sign of the swimming pools and rippling water favoured by Hockney . |
| 16 | There is theoretical discussion of some kind of international guarantee to ensure that what is agreed now will be implemented later , but no sign of what form this might take . |
| 17 | There are one million Egyptians working in Libya , but no sign of any mass return . |
| 18 | Unknown to the priest , but easily recognisable as such , were even some of the regulars from Rafferty 's Bar — the Quinns , Kellys , Coyles and Dochertys , but no sign of Jackie himself . |
| 19 | Hurricanes subsequently searched until it was too dark to see , but no sign of the missing Auger could be found . |
| 20 | Peering through the filthy window , they saw an empty room littered with small rubble , several pieces of broken dust-covered chairs and an old table , but no sign of life . |
| 21 | Under Artois , we located a divorce fixing agency and a company which supplied water — but no sign of Rene . |
| 22 | Finally the road turns away and makes a long and rough descent , with Loch Hourn dramatically in view ahead , to the few buildings of Kinlochhourn where there is life but no sign of it . |
| 23 | There were school books , and one or two old Enid Blytons , but no sign of current reading tastes , nor any well-thumbed magazines . |
| 24 | Already there are lights everywhere in Leicester but no sign of Christmas . |
| 25 | She could see a single horse , but no sign of men . |
| 26 | House repossessions down but no sign of recovery |
| 27 | But no sentence is completely immune to revision . |
| 28 | ‘ Beautiful in summer , but no theatre or music , and in the cinema only films that are passed by the political commissar . ’ |
| 29 | Two independent groups of researchers have reported the presence of a rectal motor complex , but no patterns of cyclic motility have been reported from the anal canal . |
| 30 | No doubt the army has lavish stocks of both ; but no capacity has been retained in Britain to make more of them at short notice . |