Example sentences of "[vb pp] no [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penelope , however , it had to be acknowledged , had made no attempt to rise above the blow she had been dealt by finding a dazzling girl of her own age favoured over herself in her uncle 's will . |
| 2 | From a longer-term perspective , it can be said that the number of transactions per day has shown no tendency to increase since the mid-1970s ; there was a surge in total number of transactions during 1987 and 1988 due to a large number of deals between the newly established market makers but both transactions on behalf of customers and intra-market business has fallen back since then . |
| 3 | On the facts of the case the rules of natural justice had been broken because the constable had had no opportunity to comment upon the allegations made against him . |
| 4 | What appears of particular concern is that the increase in ultraviolet radiation coincides with the time when ocean surface organisms are emerging from the dark winter period and thus have had no time to adapt to the sun , let alone enhanced levels of damaging UV-B radiation . |
| 5 | The residues of this débâcle survive today in the regime 's mistrust of its people , its dread of weakness , and its determination that an alternative ideology be given no chance to emerge in the country . |