Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie was undressing him impatiently too although she had no real idea of what she was doing . |
| 2 | She also noticed that he drank five martinis , although they had no noticeable effect upon him . |
| 3 | South Ossetia 's nationalist fighters were estimated to number 3,000 , although they had no united command structure . |
| 4 | Although they had no single rooms left , they said finally , they had had a late cancellation of a suite . |
| 5 | Although they had no special interest in meteorites , the geologists collected the specimens and shipped them to Japan , assuming they were all pieces from a single meteorite shower . |
| 6 | To protect their own interests these States openly condemned New Zealand 's stance , although they had no direct claims under the treaty . |
| 7 | They had to struggle bringing us up so they had no real time to bother about anything else . ’ |
| 8 | Although he had no dark hairs growing round his wrist-watch , Hugh Pargeter had , in his youth , the regular features and slightly curled hair of young men who model knitting patterns . |
| 9 | Mr Rawlins announced his intention to leave Sturge at some time in the future towards the end of last year although he had no specific plans for the next step in his career . |
| 10 | In a letter dated 26 August 1988 the inspector stated that although he had no specific evidence against Mr Kempton or the company , it would be necessary to examine their tax affairs . |
| 11 | In 1886 he was elected FRS although he had no academic degree until 1910 , when he delivered the Herbert Spencer lecture at Oxford and the university conferred on him an honorary D.Sc . |
| 12 | The tumour came from a hen , and the material transmitted caused tumours in other fowl , so it had no obvious importance to human medicine . |
| 13 | Violette , armed only with a sten sub-machine-gun , covered her companions ' retreat through standing corn for twenty minutes until she had no more ammunition , and was taken prisoner . |
| 14 | They wrote to Izz , asking her to join them if she had no other work . |
| 15 | The sadness seemed to extinguish her as if she had no real eyes or fingers or genitals or teeth or frown-lines or kidneys but these were just slight irregularities in the sponge that was her sadness . |
| 16 | Longing to scream at him to set her free , she reminded herself of her drama-school training , and instead forced herself to look as if she had no more feeling than a block of wood . |
| 17 | Even if we had no standard semantics to characterise , it would still be necessary to investigate the structure of the classes of inter-transformable programs , because it is only this that reveals the true power of a set of laws . |
| 18 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |
| 19 | The Sheriff Principal , in referring to the views of the Sheriff , expressed some doubt as to the entitlement of the pursuers to recover 75 per cent of the contract price if they had no legal justification for refusing to complete the installation . |
| 20 | If there is doubt about the cause of death — if , for example , the death was sudden and the doctor had not seen the person within fourteen days of death , or if they had no general practitioner , the coroner must be informed , and will decide whether it is necessary to hold a post mortem . |
| 21 | It can not be right to treat unmarried women who have the support of a partner both as if they had no such support and better than if they were married . |
| 22 | They 'll be there by this , if they had no more trouble along the way . ’ |
| 23 | What it would mean is that we would consider it immoral to treat animals as if they had no intrinsic value , as if they were of instrumental value only , merely means to human ends . |
| 24 | He knew that it would be going to the Ministry of Defence , but the paperwork submitted to the Department of Trade and Industry would state that the purchaser was the Ministry of Agriculture ; Department of Trade and Industry rules said that manufactured goods could be exported to Iraq only if they had no military usage . |
| 25 | In these schools , he implied , people would be falling over themselves to get jobs , and , in certain cases , they might be employed even if they had no formal teaching qualifications , though that was not expected to be the norm . |
| 26 | The chimpanzee in the laboratory would be unlikely to solve the box-stick-and-banana problem if it had no initial interest in the bananas . |
| 27 | He did eventually speak to Klein , who after some persuasion accepted his apologies , and then went on to tell him there was to be a party at Taylor and Clem 's house the following day , and he was sure Gentle would be welcome if he had no other plans . |
| 28 | He had turned away and was uncovering the drawing-board as if he had no further interest in the subject . |
| 29 | Through my mind there reverberated the words from Portrait of a Lady , ‘ Memories of my dead life , and Paris in the Spring ’ , the meaning of which every lover of Paris can echo , even if he had no dead life in either George Moore 's or Eliot 's sense , or even if his most memorable visit to Paris took place , as mine did , at another season . |
| 30 | The mess of my life , the selfishnesses and false turnings and the treacheries , all these things could fall into place , they could become a source of construction rather than a source of chaos , and precisely because I had no other choice . |