Example sentences of "they [vb base] no [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities have an unusual approach to recording their assets as they make no provision for depreciation — see chapter 8 . |
| 2 | They are conspicuous for their conciliatory terms : although they insist as firmly as ever on the prohibition of lay investiture , they make no mention of homage . |
| 3 | If , however , they show no sign of ability to make contact or to learn by five years they are placed in a special school , welfare institution or returned to family surroundings . |
| 4 | Yet as they step forward for a greeting , receiving the palms of your hands on their springy hair , they show no sign of fear or anxiety . |
| 5 | Some dogs appear to find them irresistible , although they show no interest in garden stones at home . |
| 6 | The sparrows alone , with their urchin adaptability , have found their snow legs , and know already that today the street-bottoms are as safe as the air and that they run no danger from dog or bicycle . |
| 7 | He did not think that a state in which a rich majority governed could be properly called a democracy : " suppose a total of one thousand three hundred ; one thousand of these are rich , they give no share in government to the three hundred poor , who also are free men and in other respects like them ; no one would say that these thirteen hundred lived under a democracy . " |
| 8 | Self regulation through medical audit , postgraduate education , and possibly professional reaccreditation are only a partial answer because they give no input to consumer or management . |
| 9 | No formal , authoritative documents set forth these rules , and they find no embodiment in statute law . |
| 10 | This , however , is not helpful , for ‘ chose in action ’ is a notoriously vague term used to describe a mass of interests which have little or nothing in common except that they confer no right to possession of a physical thing , and which range from purely personal rights under a contract to patents , copyrights and trade marks . |
| 11 | One of the penalties of keeping immaculate accounts is that they leave no room for hope — there were no errors in Nora 's books to offer the firm a surprise salvation . |
| 12 | They 've no interest in promotion , they 've no interest in the job really . |
| 13 | I mean they get into these jobs and really they 've no background of understanding of the exact |
| 14 | This diversity accounts for the mutually contradictory complaints that are frequently voiced by village locals : that the newcomers come in and try to run everything or that they take no part in village life and are not ‘ involved ’ . |
| 15 | Are shoppers somehow at fault if they have no concept of liquidity preference ? |
| 16 | They have no concept of time . |
| 17 | They have no protection in law against oppression be it exercised by their employers , the state or their menfolk . |
| 18 | Agents are n't keen on multiple agency agreements as they have no guarantee of commission , despite incurring the marketing costs . |
| 19 | The trouble with the British , the critic went on , and above all with British writers , is that they have no experience of invasion or concentration camps , and think politeness will always get you through . |
| 20 | However the Southampton Hospital insists that while it discourages smoking and wo n't allow it in the building , they have no ban on heart operations . |
| 21 | They have no idea of amenity , no regard for landscape and have scant interest in problems of drainage and water . |
| 22 | For years we in this country have been accustomed to say ‘ American education is superficial ’ or ‘ the trouble with American students is that they have no idea of scholarship ’ . |
| 23 | Personally I do n't think it is traditions which are weighing them down but the fact that they have no support at home . |
| 24 | ‘ They have no sense of occasion . |
| 25 | Others are amnosics either because they have no sense of smell , or their sense of smell has become temporarily impaired due to prolonged exposure to an odour . |
| 26 | They do n't have a very wide span of vision either , and they have no sense of perspective . |
| 27 | No but of course James and Danny ma erm and thingmajig find it incredibly funny because they 're incredibly thick and they have no sense of humour at all . |
| 28 | ‘ They have no sense of harmony , ’ continued the T'ang , unaware . |
| 29 | A contract is an international supply contract if three conditions are satisfied : ( a ) it is a contract for the sale of goods or it is one under , or in pursuance of which , possession or ownership of goods passes ; and ( b ) it is made by parties whose places of business ( or habitual residence , if they have no place of business ) are in the territories of different states ; and ( c ) either ( i ) at the time the contract is made , the goods are in the course of carriage , or will be carried , between the territories of two states ; or ( ii ) the acts constituting offer and acceptance were done in the territories of different states ; or ( iii ) the contract provides for the goods to be moved to the territory of a state other than that in which the offer and acceptance took place . |
| 30 | The students have all used document preparation systems in earlier courses , and perhaps in previous careers , but they have no background in design . |