Example sentences of "gives [pers pn] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
| 2 | Gives them no peace . " |
| 3 | ‘ Lone and level sands ’ — that 's Ozymandias , you know — but it really gives you no idea . |
| 4 | Lissa said with crushing force , ‘ Whether or not she is your sister gives you no right to make slanderous , evil accusations . |
| 5 | I recognised at school that I had the talent to become a politician when , at the end of a particularly bad term , the headmaster wrote on my report , ’ One can not help but be quite captivated by him , provided one gives him no work to do . ’ |
| 6 | The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion . |
| 7 | She responds to a comment by the monk on how she appears to have passed the night in sexual " labour " by bemoaning what she suffers as a wife , implying that her husband gives her no pleasure in bed and is mean with his money . |
| 8 | He gives it no emphasis , does n't try to persuade . |
| 9 | Just because Council is delegated in the matter of routine gives it no right to assume such a role when it proposes such a mammoth commitment . |
| 10 | He gives us no sign that he believes God will provide a substitute at the last moment , no sign of a conviction that all will be well in the end . |
| 11 | If a large part of consciousness is ignored in the mentioned audacious way , and the logico-linguistic criterion is used to discriminate the remaining part , it gives us no analysis or understanding of that remaining part . |
| 12 | We might reply that the simplicity of cave communities is idiosyncratic rather than typical : we might ask what general ecological insights we are going to obtain from communities that lack photosynthetic plants and herbivores , and are maintained by detritus flushed down from above : but Dr Culver gives us no answer . |
| 13 | Locke suggests that his corpuscular account of objects , and our perception of them , gives us no reason to think of snow 's coldness and whiteness like this . |
| 14 | For apart from Lenin 's conviction that there is always a dominant instance at a time of social stability , and a dominant contradiction at a time of social change , Althusser gives us no reason to believe that there need only be one aspect of society which bears this relation to the mode of production . |
| 15 | Its truthful and intimate style gives us no reason for supposing that we are seeing anything other than Handel at home — his own comfortable and well worn chair , his own clothes and his own table . |