Example sentences of "no [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it is said ( as we shall say ) that the sentence That 's a dog entails the sentence That 's an animal , what is meant is that in any conceivable situation in which That 's a dog can ( with appropriate reference ) express a true proposition , there exists a corresponding proposition ( i.e. with no change in the referents of referring expressions ) expressible by That 's an animal , whose truth is a necessary consequence of the truth of the first proposition . |
| 2 | In this view , the social scientist produces neutral science and takes no responsibility for the ways in which it is used . |
| 3 | Finally , I should like to express my gratitude to my partner , John Stacey , a lawyer of considerable intellect who , while bearing no responsibility for the contents of this work , first introduced me to commercial conveyancing and has since played no little part in my continuing education in the subject . |
| 4 | There was no damage to the contents of the imperial treasury , but behind the scenes , the water has destroyed the complex new security and the air conditioning systems , so it will be closed for a considerable time ’ . |
| 5 | A tiff with his nephew was no disqualification in the eyes of Charles II , who disliked William and his religion ; Ken on his return to England was made a chaplain to the King , who would remark ruefully on Sundays , ‘ Now I must go and hear little Ken rebuke me for my sins . ’ |
| 6 | Unfortunately , there has been no money for the activities of the East Europe sub-group , which was to have built on the Presidential visits of the previous year . |
| 7 | There appears to be no time-limit on the matters to be considered , so that not only the final act but a whole course of conduct may be taken into account . |
| 8 | If he asks for a review board he gets it because there is no provision in the regulations for even the Secretary of State to refuse such a request . |
| 9 | But there had never been any attempt to align other CSE grades to O level grades and it was no part of the assumptions of the dual system that someone who failed O level ( below grade E ) was of ‘ average ’ ability ( CSE grade 4 ) . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 11 | It was certainly no part of the intentions of the founders of Protestantism to encourage discontent or disobedience . |
| 12 | Though it was willing to assist if required the government emphasized that it would play no part in the proceedings of the Convention . |
| 13 | Such actions have played absolutely no part in the proceedings to date . |
| 14 | A case in point is Gabriel García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude , on whose closing page the last of the Buendía family finally succeeds in deciphering the hitherto incomprehensible manuscript presented to the family by the mysterious gypsy Melquíades , only to discover that it is an account of the history of the Buendías written 100 years before , that they will cease to exist when he finishes reading it and that he is , in effect , no more than a creature of Melquíades 's imagination , with no existence outside the pages of the manuscript . |
| 15 | The second round of talks on normalizing diplomatic relations between North Korea and Japan ended in Tokyo on March 12 after two days with no progress on the issues of compensation and inspection of nuclear facilities , as had been the case in the first round held on Jan. 30-31 in the North Korean capital Pyongyang . |
| 16 | Prominent French-style figuration and unity of mood , as seen in Arion , has no parallel in the cantatas of his contemporaries . |
| 17 | There is no link between the cases in goats and sheep . |
| 18 | Police have said there was no link between the incidents in the two cities . |
| 19 | Once expressly absolved , then by operation of the general principle of the right to self-determination , the other would incur no liability for the consequences of the absolution . |
| 20 | We have had no experience of the objects of these ideas . |
| 21 | They were not always welcomed by working-class mothers , who resented what they saw as intrusion into their lives and the sometimes patronizing advice on childcare from women who were often childless and who certainly had no experience of the difficulties of rearing children in poverty and in the inescapable dirt of poor homes with inadequate water supplies . |
| 22 | Explosives experts we have aboard but no experts on the effects of explosives . |
| 23 | [ This is not to say that the adjective must be ascriptive ; nor is it to require that the adjective should be restrictive — see Chapter 7 ; it merely states that there is no interaction between the properties as such . ] |
| 24 | As a result there can be no review of the decisions of the Tribunal , regardless of the merits and substance of the decision and regardless of the procedure by which it is reached . |
| 25 | Although factors such as stature , age , and duodenal ulcer disease affect the absolute values of Vg they can have little or no effect on the changes in someone consequent upon smoking a cigarette : thus despite the small numbers studied the 25% fall is highly significant . |
| 26 | The OBS setting will have no effect on the indications of the CDI |
| 27 | Clearly , the number of males a female mates with has little or no effect on the numbers of her offspring . |
| 28 | He stepped forward and retreated at the little garden gate as though rebuffed by some force field or buffeted by some invisible gale which had no effect on the branches of the little trees and evergreens in the front gardens of the cottages . |
| 29 | Re-employment has been shown to produce measurable improvements in health , but I know of no study of the effects of joining a workfare scheme . |
| 30 | The Trust is not an anglers ' or owners ' association and takes no side in the arguments between the supporters or sporting and commercial fishing , but it does believe that salmon should be taken only in their rivers of origin or their estuaries so that the total level of fishing effort can be controlled in order to ensure that enough fish reach the spawning sites to maintain stocks naturally . |