Example sentences of "no [indef pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | A meeting of the workers was called in the locker room by the shop steward at which it was decided that no one would return to the contaminated area . |
2 | HMS Impregnable 's position was desperate , for if she broke up no one would survive in the conditions . |
3 | ‘ When Agnes disappeared , ’ replied Monks , ‘ her father changed his name and moved to a lonely place in Wales , where no one would know about the family shame . |
4 | No one would disagree about the need for a plan . |
5 | This , however , it will be evident from the foregoing , is something on which no one should count in the future . |
6 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |
7 | No one can break into the miners ' housing area without ‘ security clearance ’ at the gate by the union guards … the orders from management are completely disregarded and the directions from union leaders are kept to the letter … |
8 | Nevertheless , no one can read through the hundreds of advertisements in the provincial press for private schools , or the numerous handbooks on the care and education of children , or the occasional prospectuses of academies that have survived , without realizing that the emphasis on education had changed . |
9 | ‘ Black people are the original people of the Earth , no one could exist on the planet without us and we must wake up , to struggle and do what we have to do to come into power , ’ announces Chester , striding across the stage , as the audience cheers . |
10 | The rows of young men perched atop the slatted sides sang snatches of song which no one could hear above the noise of the engine . |
11 | Very well , he reasoned , then grog jelly was not too far removed from the mandate he had been given , and no one could object to the addition of a delicious fruit sorbet . |