Example sentences of "and it [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |