Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the older cases I find no such distinction .
2 Further , in the context of statutory demands I see no compelling need to give a more extended meaning to the word ‘ action . ’
3 One way would be for the letter detector for , say , Y-in-the-fifth-position to have inhibitory links not only to the word detectors for words which have any other letter in that position , but also to those detectors for words which have no fifth letter .
4 Every culture will organise the world according to its own perceptions of reality ; thus one language may have words which have no equivalent concept in another .
5 Those who throw sticks and stones which break bones can be better off in law than those who project hurtful words which leave no permanent mark .
6 It helps if these are on show , and makes it easier to select text accurately without disturbing the formatting of paragraphs which need no further editing .
7 Edwardians who had no such inhibitions
8 These symptoms were assessed by three authors who had no previous knowledge of the endoscopic or manometric results .
9 The inclusion of half-a-dozen peers who held no significant office suggests that it was beginning to revert to the form of the 1520s , when the Council had included both office-holders and men whose political support was valuable to the Crown .
10 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 .
11 The problem was to be with those institutions which had no previous connection with either the NCTA or the CNAA , and where the London degree had been a part-time one .
12 Many senior politicians regarded the purity movement as beyond the pale ; an unwelcome intrusion of issues and personnel which had no rightful place in the discourse of parliamentary politics .
13 We are left with a play on signs which has no ultimate reference point other than the commodity .
14 Unfortunately , a number of LDCs ' governments squandered their funds on consumer goods imports and uneconomic projects which made no recognisable increase in their countries ' productive capacities .
15 The basic rationale for such courses derives from the discipline itself , and can be seen in its pure form in disciplines which have no obvious employment destination , such as philosophy or history .
16 The function of the leave requirement is not spelled out in Order 53 , but it is designed to weed out cases which have no real chance of success or which might be called ‘ frivolous ’ or ‘ vexatious ’ in the sense of being brought not out of a genuine interest in the outcome but for some ulterior motive such as to make things difficult for a government agency .
17 If Parliament wishes to create a specialist body to adjudicate in a given field , it makes little sense to have the decisions of that body reviewed by courts which have no such expertise .
18 If " adornment " is to be identified in linguistic patterns which have no semantic utility , we can point to the alliterations clustered in the last few lines .
19 A disposal assignment may involve a considerable number of approaches to entities which have no previous association with KPMG .
20 Italian fascism tended not to regulate groups which posed no obvious threat to the regime .
21 The treaty is a bilateral commitment with reciprocal rights and duties which contains no direct mention of the role of the United States in facilitating its conclusion , other than a general preambular reference to the Camp David framework for peace .
22 While fuel duties are by far the most attractive tax and are virtually impossible to avoid , they fail to discriminate between casual users , such as city centre dwellers , and essential users , such as country dwellers who have no alternative means of transport .
23 Then in 1980 and again in 1983 ten-minute rule bills on this subject obtained second readings which approved the principle ; as is normally the case with such bills they made no further progress due to lack of parliamentary time .
24 I see women as closer to the tragic than men because of the frailty of their expectations which have no solid foundation in the world .
25 And you might well argue of course that if you are subsidizing films which have no cultural merit or whatever then why we are doing this and that , that would be a question to ask .
26 Thus an ordinary adjective like that underlined in ( 18 ) : ( 18 ) the black parrot soared up through the jungle cover certainly may be restrictive — there may be other parrots of other colours which do no such thing — but it may at least as easily be intended non-restrictively .
27 The three other sonnets which present no personal relationships are all generalizations about love .
28 Third , that certain factors in avant-garde culture , and especially the conscious breaks from ‘ traditional ’ styles , have to be analysed not only in formal terms but within the sociology of metropolitan encounters and associations between immigrants who share no common language but that of the metropolis and whose other ( including visual ) received sign-systems have become distanced or irrelevant .
29 Everyone , especially London classes who have no particular stall , is asked to help as much as they possibly can to fill the stalls , not only the one with which their area is associated .
30 Unlike the kids in Lord of the Flies we had no real problems , but the remoteness does make me anti-social .
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