Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] no [det] " in BNC.

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1 They must be blessed at midday on January 24 or they will have no more value than toys .
2 We move to redundancies , well there you will see that er er newspapers that is to say Westminster Press and Camco have borne the brunt er and I will say no more other than that the reduction in payroll year-on-year will be thirty million pounds .
3 it is part of the problem we have and I will say no more as I suspect our report of today will probably be in the daily press .
4 Once I 'm out , you can disappear and we 'll say no more about it . ’
5 So the Tories could still just about end up the biggest party , and we will hear no more about the disastrous campaign .
6 ‘ I 'm very confident that when the Commission learns at first hand that it is not technically possible , they will see the overwhelming good sense of the British government and we will hear no more of the matter , ’ declared Mr Howard .
7 The evolution of mammals after the Cretaceous was both extremely rapid and very complex , and we can do no more than give the roughest sketch here .
8 Its universality as far as human life is concerned depends on when it actually happened , and we can do no more than guess at the date .
9 There was a second ground of appeal concerned with a point of mixed law and fact but this was abandoned by counsel and we need say no more about it .
10 ‘ Let the men of this country take home , each one , his wife and his babes , and we should hear no more of shortage of work and lowering of wages . ’
11 In addition there would be religious festivals , a commemoration of some event in the life of the Buddha , or the founding of a monastery , sometimes even a commemoration of the appearance of a nat or spirit , and interestingly the funeral of a monk , a time of great rejoicing and festivity , for had not the holy man entered Nirvana , and he would return no more to the wearisome cycle of human rebirths .
12 And it must pay no more than a reasonable service fee to agents .
13 When you have read through a book of entertainment , you know it , and it can do no more for you ; but a book of science is inexhaustible . ’
14 But I 'll think no more about it until we meet Dr Mortimer and Sir Henry Baskerville in the morning .
15 But I 'll have no such tricks played on my island ! ’
16 But I could tell no more than I have written here and I think they all knew from the start it was hopeless .
17 But I will do no more than offer a few remarks about their rights and wrongs , focusing instead on the most productive ways in which teachers can develop and promote their own positions .
18 It might require them to behave authoritatively , submissively , wickedly or shrewdly ; the role might be labelled explorer , prime minister , designer or archaeologist , but they will do no more than adapt functionally to the situation of the drama just as they would adapt to roles required in a game — just as they once learnt to adapt to the limited number of roles imposed on them in real life .
19 The calves raised white-slobbered mules enquiringly as he hung over them but they could offer no more explanation of the mystery than I could myself .
20 There were a couple of splits of champagne there but he would drink no more until this was resolved .
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