Example sentences of "it [verb] no [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever form it takes , it offers no personal recognition or status , and nor should it . |
| 2 | I did try on a couple of occasions to wind the engine up past the 5000rpm mark , where the torque curve begins to fall away rapidly , but it produced no more performance than was available by driving the car sensibly for economy . |
| 3 | However , in the study , it made no significant difference whether a male or female teacher directed class activities . |
| 4 | Like so many cash crops , sugar is not a genuinely useful product — it has no nutritional value and is of no benefit in times of hardship . |
| 5 | He knew and practised all the rules of art , and from a composition of Raphael , Carracci , and Guido , made up a style , of which the only fault was , that it has no manifest defects and no striking beauties ; and that the principles of his composition are never blended together , so as to form one uniform body original in its kind , or excellent in any view . |
| 6 | It has no physical significance and can be removed by a coordinate transformation . |
| 7 | The organisation is a community of scientists — it has no physical centre except for a small secretariat at UNESCO 's headquarters in Paris . |
| 8 | It has no more substance than a smell . |
| 9 | Singapore is not much bigger than the Isle of Wight , it has no natural resources and its population only numbers 3m . |
| 10 | It causes no widespread congestion or great traffic problems . |
| 11 | But MI5 deliberately ignored them as and when it suited because it believed no prime minister or Home Secretary would interfere nor would any member of the service break ranks and tell the truth about what really went on inside MI5 . |
| 12 | It requires no physical assistance or material aid , and is capable of being exercised by men , women and children . |
| 13 | The drain-all , strip-out approach to land has been adopted by insurance firms investing in agriculture precisely because it requires no more thought than it takes to fill in a form for the subsidy . |
| 14 | Years before , a wooden handrail , polished by generations of hands , had lined the high pavement , but the town council had decided that it served no useful purpose and detracted from the charm of the stone-walled cottages perched high on the bank above , and when the handrail had become shaky with age it had been dismantled , much to the annoyance of the Thrush Green residents . |
| 15 | Already he had spent an hour wandering around the town — it needed no more time than that — trying to get the feel of the place . |
| 16 | It serves no real purpose and eventually we have to pay for it to be taken away . |
| 17 | as if to compound her plan , it gave no real evidence that it was there . |
| 18 | When the Association was founded in 1957 , it had no paid staff and only £10 in its bank account . |
| 19 | After the ceremony , she and Ludovico went to Chiesa Santo Spirito , at the end of their road , where Ludovico had arranged for them to be blessed , explaining to her that it had no religious significance and did not endanger her non-Catholic soul . |
| 20 | It had no clear origin and we did not wait to investigate . |
| 21 | It had no national coinage and possibly no taxation system . |