Example sentences of "no [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is no normal way to get into the arms trade ’ , says Mohammed . |
| 2 | And there is no gratuitous information to get in the way . |
| 3 | As the setting was inside a series of computer games , there was no real requirement to go beyond the ‘ computer look . ’ |
| 4 | There is no straightforward way to deal with the question of appropriate products . |
| 5 | There 's no extra cash to pay for the search ; fire chiefs are just hoping their alarm call is answered . |
| 6 | Especially since there 's no electric cable to cut for the fifty-fourth time , he added , with a big wink so she 'd know he was joking . |
| 7 | Hailey 's chief preoccupations , then , were to find ways of keeping educated Africans ( of whose mental capacities he took , incidentally , a dim view ) from making a successful bid for power at the centre of the colonial system , and to see that there was no unconsidered rush to reform at the level of the localities . |
| 8 | Where the Bill has been before a standing committee , so that Members not on the committee have had no previous opportunity to speak on the minutiae of the Bill , there is now an opportunity for them to make their points . |
| 9 | The paramount feature of pentatonic scales is the absence of semitones : This absence of semitones has two effects : there is no leading note to pull towards the tonic ; and no fourth degree note to gravitate down to the third . |
| 10 | He had no burning ambition to climb to the upper reaches of management in those early days , however . |
| 11 | I am not precise on depth because there is no great temptation to hang over the hole and peer down . |
| 12 | The Group has no present intention to dispose of the AUK Notes and therefore no tax provision has been made for the potential liability to corporation tax . |
| 13 | Byron , who had no good word to say of the town itself , spoke highly of its inhabitants : ‘ … both female and male , at least the young ones , are remarkably handsome , and how the devil they came to be so is a wonder . ’ |
| 14 | For there is no good reason to subscribe to the widely-held intuition that explanations have to conform to individualist tenets . |
| 15 | ‘ We have no viable theory to account for the supposed phenomena and no technology at all , ’ Dr Blackmore stressed . |
| 16 | ( Jones and Kodras , 1986 , p. 52 , suggest a more economic interpretation , involving the white population attempting ‘ to preserve a low-wage labor-force for agriculture and labor-intensive industries by , among other things , ensuring that welfare programs present no viable alternative to labor in the fields or factories ’ . ) |
| 17 | They had no sanctioned power to intervene in the affairs of their members , but only to represent them to outsiders . |
| 18 | That is no small service to offer to the Western World . |
| 19 | That was no small gain to set in the balance against the more obvious Erastianism of the new system . |
| 20 | With the golden share intact , the company is under no immediate pressure to negotiate with the likes of GM and Ford and is likely to press for the most advantageous terms available . |
| 21 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 22 | … no inconsiderable sacrifice to put in the time and effort that this sort of work requires , particularly when , as I fear has been the case so far , it has to be pursued at rather a breakneck speed . |
| 23 | Even if the outgoing employee has no constructive criticism to make of the job , the period of compiling the job specification prior to the interview is an invaluable chance to reconsider what exactly the job involves and to compare what is being done to what is really needed . |
| 24 | The articles of association say that the value will be fixed by the company 's auditors acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and there is no other way to arrive at the figure which follows the requirements of the constitution of the company . |
| 25 | There are no real heroes in boxing at the moment and Bowe has no other way to go in the end but to fight Lewis , ’ he said . |
| 26 | There are no real heroes in boxing at the moment and Bowe has no other way to go in the end but to fight Lewis , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The agents complained fiercely at having to stand twelve hours on Whitehall 's pavements in pouring November rain , clutching maps and papers , waiting to be called ; but there was no other way to get through the work . |
| 28 | I do this , and reel my other rod in so that if the carp does give one another chance there will be no other line to get in the way of my landing it . |
| 29 | There is no extraneous information to interfere with the layout . |