Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was thought to be due to the fact that the smaller wheels were leading , but the Metropolitan Electric tramways which had some similar cars on almost identical bogies , turned the bogies round on one of their cars ( No. 25 ) and it made no appreciable difference . |
| 2 | Sun Microsystems Inc worshipper Integrix Inc , based somewhere in darkest California , has come up with a new keyboard called the S5+ that incorporates the functionality of Sun 's new Type 5 but can also be used with all Suns , Sun-compatibles and personal computers : it is targeted at mixed computer environments and X terminals and it requires no special device drivers . |
| 3 | So I think life was erm boring , tough , hard-working , pretty unpleasant during the war , erm and I think most of the citizens must have been very very relieved when the surrender finally came , and it brought no actual fighting , and at least the city was left reasonably unscathed . |
| 4 | As it turned out , it blocked just those actions of adrenaline which Ahlquist had grouped with the beta receptors , and it had no appreciable effect on the alpha receptors . |
| 5 | But it still suffered from several of the defects of the medieval Exchequer : it was very slow ; it had not the machinery to expand the available sources of revenue ; and it had no effective control over expenditure . |
| 6 | But it weighed 8oz more than the Texas , it had a battery life roughly the same length as a Madonna video and it had no inverted T for the cursors . |
| 7 | What was it Dr Johnson said — ‘ Love is only one of many passions and it has no great influence on the sum of life ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Leland states ‘ a great voice rennith that sometyme readinges of liberalle sciences were at Staunford ’ , but Brazenose is the only other authenticated medieval building , and it has no academic record . |
| 9 | This is a hasty throw-off in the middle of a wide-ranging argument , and it has no particular bearing on drink . |
| 10 | My local authority , quite rightly , takes on those children because they are in need , but it receives no financial assistance to cope with them . |
| 11 | But it takes no long reflexion to see that , in this case , if the interrogative is acceptable , then it asks for a straightforward manner adverbial or its equivalent as an answer , and it is not directly related to the sentences in ( 33 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Jezrael could see that her personal data was offering the captain a wide range of possibilities but it had no personal significance for Chesarynth 's little sister . |
| 14 | Fortunately , they were professional enough to do the gig , but it served no useful purpose . |
| 15 | The Financial Reporting Review Panel informed the company that substituting the proposed requirements of an exposure draft for those of an existing accounting standard was not acceptable ; but it took no further action , since FRS 3 was expected shortly . |
| 16 | As he drew near they heard the sickening crack of the rod striking flesh ; once , twice they heard it fall but it brought no anguished shout of pain in response . |
| 17 | Class is an indispensable instrument in analysing capitalism , but it contains no ready-made plan for its overcoming . |
| 18 | It 's a language all its own , with rules and a grammar , but it has no definite article . |
| 19 | It is crammed with incidents involving Rangers and Celtic players but it has no great love for either club . |
| 20 | Bank in 2 can also be interpreted in more than one way ( e.g. ‘ margin of river ’ or ‘ establishment for the custody of money ’ ) ; but it has no general meaning covering these possibilities . |
| 21 | The public may be interested in whether a bid is made , but it has no legitimate interest to defend . |
| 22 | Angola has its problems but it has no ex-colonial links with this country . |
| 23 | But it has no formal power over the APA . |
| 24 | Fern Lodge is a tea-caddy Regency house with a frilly wrought-iron porch , set in half an acre of secluded gardens ; but it has no notable interiors . |
| 25 | But it started no religious fashions in post-war British fiction , which is rootedly secular , its heroes as unbelieving of a world beyond the grave as they are insecure in the only world they know . |