Example sentences of "[verb] but [prep] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juvenile Court proceedings can be reported but under no circumstances may any child involved in the proceedings be identified . |
| 2 | How often do you dump a file on someone 's desk with a Post-it note on it saying ‘ do this ’ and get it back — okay — competently done but with no knowledge how it might have disrupted that person 's other work or even if they liked doing it enough to want to do more ? |
| 3 | Not in any way connected but of no less interest and speculation are a few cup stones . |
| 4 | Or are they grown up and still writing but to no avail ? |
| 5 | Blows were exchanged faster than the eye could follow but to no avail — within minutes the proud High Elf lay headless on the plain . |
| 6 | He wrote notes , asking if they could meet but to no avail . |
| 7 | We were being blown east ; we corrected but with no DME we were n't sure how far east we were . |
| 8 | Desperately she pleaded but to no avail . |
| 9 | Everything had been tried but to no avail — the suffering had been agony , not even deadened with morphine . |
| 10 | When we see Grandcourt at breakfast there with Mr Lush , the scene is suggestively rendered as a ‘ still-life ’ , artfully composed but with no vital principle , the room ‘ seeming the stiller for its sober antiquated elegance , as if it kept a conscious , well-bred silence ’ . |