Example sentences of "[noun] as [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may record its disagreement but ultimately accept the majority 's support of the development ; it may refuse to meet its financial obligations until the organisation ceases the action in question , although this may itself be contrary to the treaty ; it may regard the action as having no legal effect ; or it may withdraw from the organisation . |
| 2 | Bush characterized the action as having no military advantage for the Iraqis and as providing further evidence of Saddam Hussein 's ability to " amaze " and " outrage " international opinion . |
| 3 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
| 4 | Sometimes the switch contacts happen to bounce an even number of times , say 2 or 4 , and this achieves the same result as having no bounce at all ! |
| 5 | A good answer is that we regard the causal circumstance as leaving no room for any other eventuality than the effect . |
| 6 | To take a causal circumstance as having no redundancy is obviously to exclude things wholly irrelevant to the effect . |
| 7 | In the 1980s , Rothenberg explored the human form , which had been dismissed by early minimalists as having no new means of expression . |
| 8 | At birth , Piaget sees the infant as having no a priori knowledge of her environment or of the way in which she can act upon it . |
| 9 | The Evil One is seen after St Gregory of Nazianzus as having no rights at all — on the contrary he is seen as a robber and a liar who stole the world from God and who holds humanity as captives in bondage to their own sin and his influence and power . |
| 10 | Some parts of this common law have long fallen into disuse as having no contemporary relevance . |
| 11 | The opposite view , that of Morgan 's contemporary , McLennan — a view derided by Morgan , Marx , and Engels — sees kinship terms as having no social significance at all . |
| 12 | Potts J. dismissed the defendants ' application to strike out the statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action . |
| 13 | Technically the appeal against the decision of Potts J. is interlocutory because decided on an application by the defendants to strike out the claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action , while the appeal against the decision of Phillips J. is a final appeal because his decision was on a question directed by consent to be tried as a preliminary issue . |
| 14 | A Christian position must necessarily hold of this human being Jesus that he existed ( or exists ) in relation to God as has no other . |
| 15 | Being part of the Garrowby estate , owned by the Earl of Halifax , it is rather unusual in this day and age as having no privately owned houses or farms , other than the old rectory which was sold several years ago when the parish became part of a joint ministry . |
| 16 | Will the Home Secretary confirm that , aside from the point of law to which he draws our attention and which will soon become sub judice , the judgment described Home Office procedures as reflecting no credit on the Home Secretary , and called the treatment of that asylum seeker a disgrace . |
| 17 | However , the provisional Government interpreted the right of national self-determination as meaning no more than the abolition of discrimination and the establishment of legal equality ’ among the peoples of the former empire . |
| 18 | He would describe the Harvard men as having no meaning in life , whereas a few of the San Quentin prisoners had found meaning . |
| 19 | Pinochet , C.-in-C. of the Army , speaking before 1,500 officers at Santiago 's Military Academy on March 29 , described the report as having no " historical or legal validity " and opposed government plans to provide compensation for the families of the victims of repression . |
| 20 | John Steel Lewes was buried in the desert and is listed on the El Alamein memorial as having no known grave . |
| 21 | When the chronicle describes " Osman Ghazi as having no gold and silver in his possession at his death and as rejecting new taxation on dealings in the bazaar as a violation of the our source appears to intend to criticize his own period by setting the first Ottoman ruler as an ideal example . |
| 22 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 23 | About a third said unequivocally that they would not support the repeal , and even the doubtfuls expressed their opinions in such a way as to leave no doubt about the strength of their reservations . |
| 24 | 3.7.4 in such a way as to cause no [ material ] obstruction to or interference with the carrying out of the Works |
| 25 | Thus it came about that Joan de Warenne , as closely resembling her young mistress as made no difference , was conducted to the Tower of London — and Alianor Woodville 's apartments . |
| 26 | Mrs Whitehouse viewed these programmes as having no redeeming qualities whatsoever , and it was not long before she herself became the subject of a satirical programme in her own right . |
| 27 | It also seems to be the character of the trust in personam to which a later source , the fourth-century paraphrase of Gaius from Autun , means to refer in speaking of the beneficiary of a trust of a whole estate as having no right to take possession of the estate himself but having to claim it from the heir . |