Example sentences of "[that] [pron] had no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice . |
| 2 | Then , I believe , she was grateful that I had no prior distractions in my life . |
| 3 | The implications were that I had no physical characteristics of my own , but that in the same way as I ‘ had ’ my father 's nose , or my grandmother 's eyes , I somehow inhabited a body which was not mine but a replica of my mother 's , and over which , therefore , I had no control . |
| 4 | With a slight sense that things were moving faster than anticipated , Loretta admitted that she had no firm plans for the next day . |
| 5 | She was only half aware that Rachel was heavily subsidising her rent , because she was living in a part of London and a sort of house so different from her friends that she had no easy comparisons . |
| 6 | It was then that her stomach began to yaw , for it occurred to her that she had no solid evidence at all with which to tackle Taczek . |
| 7 | She replied that she had no such intention . |
| 8 | Finally a woman I worked with told me in no uncertain terms that she had no such desire , which threw me utterly . |
| 9 | ‘ Ladies ’ verse' became a phrase of scorn ; anthologies ceased to include any , readers forgot its existence , and Elizabeth Barrett Browning was able to complain that she had no poetic grandmothers . |
| 10 | At first she felt slightly awkward , but he said little , merely stood and watched her , and she was relieved that she had no difficult cases , but found the work straightforward . |
| 11 | " When the Madam gave me the keys and deeds of this house in Easter week , 1916 , she said that it was mine , that she had no further use for it . |
| 12 | In some ways she was happy that she had no conscious memory of the details , but unless she was able to recall them she knew that there would be no case for the young man to answer and he would go free . |
| 13 | ‘ Sarah explained that she had no more money , but the driver told her to get off . ’ |
| 14 | Karen Sands , of the foundation , said that she had no particular worries about the changes in the short term . |
| 15 | The smugglers refused to do this , insisting that they had no personal quarrel with him and would each go his own way . |
| 16 | He realised it would not matter at all that they had no bathing costumes . |
| 17 | Lowell explained that they had no hire-purchase commitments and that the house was theirs . |
| 18 | There has been some argument about whether or not they knew what he was doing , but most of them now piously assert that they had no such knowledge and some take the view that it was an outrageous breach of confidence . |
| 19 | Many of the carers complained that they had no social life ; for example a 90-year old widow 's daughter , who had her mother living with her , said she was hardly ever able to get out , and had not had a holiday for eight years . |
| 20 | THE London Ambulance Service said yesterday that it had no immediate plans to revert to its gremlin-plagued computer call-out system . |
| 21 | The government initially claimed that it had no prior notice of the Commission 's intention to initiate proceedings , but it was later disclosed that this had been the subject of correspondence between the Commission and the Department of Transport . |
| 22 | The agency claimed that , having stated as recently as Sept. 17 that it had no unreleased BNL material , it had since discovered the existence of a series of transmissions from the CIA 's Rome station which indicated that the Rome headquarters of BNL had authorized some of the Iraqi loans . |
| 23 | But because Hinkley C was seen as a virtual ‘ replica ’ of the Sizewell design , the NII had made it clear from the start that it had no major reservations . |
| 24 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
| 25 | After the ceremony , she and Ludovico went to Chiesa Santo Spirito , at the end of their road , where Ludovico had arranged for them to be blessed , explaining to her that it had no religious significance and did not endanger her non-Catholic soul . |
| 26 | The government , publishing its reply on the same day , stated that it had no legal liability to pay compensation , rejected the report 's assertions that actions fell short of the standards appropriate to the regulator , and further asserted that the general handling of the licensing of the Barlow Clowes partnership was careful and considerate . |
| 27 | The regulatory role of the Department of Trade and Industry in respect of Barlow Clowes had been sharply criticized in reports both of an independent inquiry ( published on Oct. 20 , 1988 ) , and of the Ombudsman ( published on Dec. 19 , 1989 ) ; on the latter date the government had announced that in the exceptional circumstances it would make ex gratia payments ( totalling some #150,000,000 ) to all investors who had suffered loss , while stressing that it had no legal liability to pay compensation . |
| 28 | Sotheby 's case for being discharged from this hugely expensive and embarrassing case rested on the argument that it was merely the custodian of the treasure , was unaware that its export licences from the Lebanon had been fraudulently acquired , and that it had no further interest in the treasure . |
| 29 | Syria , which signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) in 1969 , had previously declined to conclude such an agreement on the grounds that it had no nuclear installations . |
| 30 | At independence in 1961 and during the period immediately afterwards , the new TANU government was concerned that it had no direct voice in the press . |