Example sentences of "it [verb] no [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst the admission of the Law Lords made available to the House one particular type of needed expertise , it effected no significant general improvement . |
| 2 | The superiority of Macbeth over Measure for Measure in this respect is that it needs no external moral force , such as the Duke , to ‘ Unfold the evil , which is here wrapp 'd up/In countenance . ’ |
| 3 | There is no reason why it could n't have been invented at almost any time in the previous century — it used no new scientific knowledge , no new materials , and no new technology . |
| 4 | It has no existing direct links to the tunnel and could not function until a high-speed rail link was built , and that could be as late as the next century . |
| 5 | In view of the £632,000 of bid costs announced with yesterday 's figures the company was quick to stress that it has no other hostile targets in its sights . |
| 6 | It has no substantial legislative powers and is as much a debating chamber as anything . |
| 7 | It has generally been thought a manifestation of the taste which in the immediately following period adapted many fabulous monsters from the East ; but it has no close eastern parallels , and the discovery of the Lefkandi Centaur pushes back the concept in Greece a long way . |
| 8 | It has no apparent direct ancestors or descendants , yet it turns up simultaneously in places as far apart as Indonesia , northern Siberia , Turkey and Nevada . |
| 9 | When an idiom is just something that has the form of , has a certain apparent grammatical form but actually occurs just as a single unit of a fixed meaning , so it has no genuine semantic structure from which you can determine its meaning , for example kick the bucket means die and you do n't get that in the meaning of kick the bucket . |
| 10 | For example , it has no real DTP-like features ; you ca n't include graphics files in documents , and there 's no provision for style sheets . |
| 11 | When Mariner 10 reached Mercury the following data on planetary magnetic fields were to hand : the Earth rotates quickly , almost certainly has a large molten iron core , and has a strong dipole field ; Mars rotates quickly , but probably has no molten iron core , and has no detectable dipole field ; Venus probably has a sizeable molten iron core but rotates slowly , and has no detectable dipole field ( perhaps also because it has no solid inner core — see section 4.2 ) ; the Moon rotates slowly , probably has no liquid iron core , and has no detectable dipole field . |
| 12 | The contracting phase will be unsuitable because it has no strong thermodynamic arrow of time . |
| 13 | Conversely , and unlike Kevlar , it has no suicidal self-cutting tendencies and will maintain good control even in Quad-line team mix-ups where 12 or even 16 lines have been known to wrap together through complicated manoeuvres . |
| 14 | It has no formal minimum portfolio requirements and no minimum charge ; on average charges are between 0.75% and 1% a year . |
| 15 | While recognizing the importance of technological advance and man 's increasing interdependence , it places no overriding causal emphasis on the level of the productive forces . |
| 16 | Although it proposed no major institutional changes , apart from greater co-operation between colleges of education , universities and polytechnics , it did recommend that the colleges should broaden their base by offering other courses alongside teacher-training , notably the two-year Diploma of Higher Education ( Dip.HE ) , a development which is discussed in detail later in this chapter . |
| 17 | It assumes no previous technical knowledge of computer communications or specialist mathematical skills . |
| 18 | Their three-year run of 17 Test wins equals the All Black record , and it takes no great clairvoyant skill to predict that this will be broken against Wales on 4 November and extended against Ireland a fortnight later . |
| 19 | It professes no particular architectural creed ; it belongs to no recognisable school of design . |
| 20 | Moscow 's decision to assume the economic burden of Cuba can be attributed to the fact that , by this stage , it had no other credible option in political terms , partly because of Khrushchev 's own extravagant statements of support for the Castro revolution , but largely because of the policies pursued by the United States . |
| 21 | fl EFTA , like the EEC , involved the gradual reduction of internal trading restrictions , but it had no common external tariff , was geographically-scattered , had a much smaller population , and was economically dominated by Britain ( which represented two-thirds of EFTA 's industrial output ) . |
| 22 | He himself was the only one among them to be on the Constitutional Stoppage Central Co-ordinating Committee and although that part of south-east Antrim was militantly behind the strike , it had no particular strategic importance . |
| 23 | It had no permanent general staff . |
| 24 | For example , Roman Jakobson and his Prague school colleague René Wellek have had considerable influence on literary studies through their teaching and work in the United States for a number of decades , and , although it carried no explicit theoretical creed , René Wellek 's Theory of Literature ( co-authored with Austin Warren and first published in 1949 ) was for many years the only widely available explicitly theoretical account of literary studies for Anglo-Saxon students of literature . |
| 25 | Except for its good light requirement , it makes no other specific demands . |
| 26 | But it makes no such specific point about assessed needs . |