Example sentences of "[subord] it had no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tumour came from a hen , and the material transmitted caused tumours in other fowl , so it had no obvious importance to human medicine . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How wretched it would be if , because it had no other solution to the problems of Iraq , the world pretended to believe him . |
| 4 | Until now , the role of the brain regions associated with Alzheimer 's disease has been little understood ; they are part of what for years was called the ‘ substantia innominata ’ ( region without a name ) because it had no known purpose . |
| 5 | The flood tide , though it had no real terrors for Woodie , caused him to fret impatiently , because Rochester , in his opinion , had beautiful lines below water , and these would not now be visible again for twelve hours . |
| 6 | The machine was not really a steam engine as it had no moving parts . |