Example sentences of "it [verb] no [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , in the study , it made no significant difference whether a male or female teacher directed class activities . |
| 3 | The organisation is a community of scientists — it has no physical centre except for a small secretariat at UNESCO 's headquarters in Paris . |
| 4 | It has no more substance than a smell . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |