Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [verb] no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the invitation to the Phoenix Club came to nothing , as it did , an invitation from the English Club , in which I enjoyed no official status , though I was a member , bore fruit . |
| 2 | He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters . |
| 3 | His adventures concluded he retires to Dulwich saying that he will never regret those two years , with their ‘ scenes of which I had no previous conception ’ leading to ‘ the enlargement of my mind ’ , PP passim . |
| 4 | There is a suspicion — no more than that — of which I have no clear evidence , that blanket decisions are taken on some applications . |
| 5 | If you are moving from a place other than a shared home for which you had no personal responsibility , you will need to cancel the milk and newspapers for ever , and organise new deliveries at your new address . |
| 6 | Even if no one is around who can confirm a particular incident , if you are able to come up with details of surroundings and personalities of which you had no conscious memory , and if these are later proved to have been accurate , there is no real reason to suppose that a significant event was simply a figment of an over-active imagination . |
| 7 | thinking about gloomy things over which you have no direct control ( ie the economy , wars , famine , natural disasters , getting older , dying ) . |
| 8 | Margaret Thatcher and the kind of neutral policy analysis the tank produced simply do not mix : ‘ Of its very existence it sort of encapsulated a view about government for which she had no great sympathy . |
| 9 | Lady Kitty 's wardrobes were crammed with clothes , and she would give those for which she had no further use to someone with little money — in exchange for some of their coupons , of course . |
| 10 | At the most profound , over which we had no conscious control , we were ideally suited and at peace . |
| 11 | Indeed , increasing the power of an independent and autonomous parliament could further weaken the connection between government and the people and could institutionalise our passivity as spectators to a game over which we have no real control and only limited influence . |
| 12 | Since the time of Freud , it has been acceptable to many theorists that the way in which we behave may be powerfully influenced by mental processes to which we have no conscious access . |
| 13 | So far as I know there is no definition of what constitutes a Cabinet Committee and , as the practice has grown , I believe there may be among the 70-odd Committees in the book some with less title to be treated as Cabinet Committees than some of the 700-odd interdepartmental committees of which we have no detailed information at all . |
| 14 | If history is potentially unreliable and incomplete , what of the prehistoric period for which we have no written records at all ? |
| 15 | Given that the majority was aligned on grounds which had nothing to do with policy , it was difficult for strangers to vote so publicly and at the same time to hold aloof from an alignment in which they had no personal interest , and which might even have damaged their commercial interests . |
| 16 | However , while the advisory team 's views had the undoubted consequence of making many Leeds primary classrooms seem busier and more attractive , the beneficial consequences for children 's learning were less clear ; and for some teachers , the claim of ‘ flexibility ’ had exactly the opposite effect , strait-jacketing them into practices to which they had no real commitment and which they had difficulty in managing . |
| 17 | Branson 's readiness to delegate responsibility and encourage people in tasks for which they had no particular qualification had been important in determining the mood of the company . |
| 18 | The report was bitterly criticised by the British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine which accused the authors of ‘ many inaccuracies ’ in describing treatments of which they had no first-hand experience . |
| 19 | The friar returned a light scowl , after which they paid no more attention to one another . |
| 20 | As such , it is natural that they should regard their place of work as an office , in which their duties are carried out , but to which they have no other loyalty . |
| 21 | The revenue obtained a huge sum of money which they had no right to demand and they are now hanging on to a very large amount of interest which they have no moral right to retain . |
| 22 | The short judgments proceed on the simple ground that the sheriff was not entitled to retain sums which he had no legal right to demand , but the sums were demanded in return for the rendering of a service , namely the issuing of warrants , so the case is capable of being rationalised on the basis that they were exacted colore officii , a concept which emerged more clearly in later cases . |
| 23 | As David Carlton has written , this plan ‘ represented a willingness to buy off a bully with territory to which he had no legitimate claim . ’ |
| 24 | Lord Brougham held that a debtor should also still be imprisoned if he refused to pay what he owed when he could do so by executing a deed , or if he was culpably extravagant or reckless in contracting debts which he had no reasonable expectation of being able to pay . |
| 25 | So when he said murder , even that was not sure , but it was going to be a relief to be investigating a crime in which he had no personal connection and of which he could not be suspected . |
| 26 | It has even been known for an esteemed binder 's ticket to be transferred from a battered volume to a more handsome specimen with which he had no demonstrable connection . |
| 27 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 28 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 29 | It is clear from s.1(2) that once deemed an insider , the individual can be held liable for dealings in the securities of companies with which he has no direct relationship . |
| 30 | The only sort of promotion that politicians really care about — to cabinet rank — went to John Redwood , the local-government minister and member for Wokingham , who has been bizarrely translated to Wales , a place for which he has no known affinity . |