Example sentences of "[verb] no [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin Dunion , FoE 's Scottish director , said he was delighted that Strathclyde had accepted that it could win no exemption from the European directive that bans sea dumping from the start of 1999 . |
| 2 | Those verbs , though roughly appropriate , evoke no tingle of recognition in the reader : they are flat , inert . |
| 3 | Thus new furniture would be defective if it contained live woodworm even though the presence of the woodworm posed no threat of personal injury . |
| 4 | Ironically enough , only Dennis , sleeping off a heavy lunch , posed no threat to my desires . |
| 5 | There was no similarity of course ; Rostov 's service in a dozen frontier system wars posed no threat to the succession — rather the reverse in fact — but for a moment he found himself wondering if the convoluted nature of the Court infrastructure made the most devious method inevitable . |
| 6 | He posed no threat to anyone . |
| 7 | Prussia was the weakest of the victorious powers in 1815 , and posed no threat to Britain , as France seemed to do when in the 1860s Napoleon III appeared to be following the ambitions of Napoleon I , and contemplating invasion . |
| 8 | And Merrill certainly posed no threat to Rob 's future with Heather , whatever Luke wanted to think . |
| 9 | The French Agriculture Minister , Henri Nallet , said that the ban , which his United Kingdom counterpart John Gummer described as " unwarranted , unjustified and contrary to EC law " , would be lifted as soon as he had satisfactory guarantees that BSE ( not hitherto officially confirmed in French cattle ) posed no threat to human health . |
| 10 | At the beginning of the 1950s , they were merely emergent and posed no threat to Franco , who was concerned to defuse two more immediate potential sources of internal unrest . |
| 11 | If young people posed no threat in terms of allegiance , there would have been little need of so many reform programmes . |
| 12 | Their greater height posed no problem for spore dispersal : if anything , it was a help since up in the tree tops , spores were more easily caught by the wind and carried away . |
| 13 | This posed no problem with regard to three of the children as there was no evidence whatsoever that sexual abuse had actually occurred . |
| 14 | Christians have regarded the Messiah as non-political — a wholly spiritual figure who posed no challenge to temporal authority , who had no secular or political aspirations himself , who beckoned his followers to a kingdom ‘ not of this world ’ . |
| 15 | Giving evidence yesterday on his own behalf , he dismissed as ‘ rubbish ’ the evidence of the only police officer on patrol with him that the car posed no danger to the patrol . |
| 16 | Senior managers told a press conference that the accident posed no danger to people or the environment . |
| 17 | They did not cause any radiation leaks and posed no danger to the environment . |
| 18 | Robert Gould , Strathclyde 's leader , said the building posed no danger to pupils because the asbestos was totally secure . |
| 19 | SEND NO MONEY AT THIS STAGE : only after 112 ROCK'N'ROLL GREATS is safely in your hands will payment be due , and instalment terms are available at no extra charge . |
| 20 | Wildling and colleagues report no resistance in Gabon , although in 2 cases parasites were still detectable at 28 days and could be classified as RI resistance . |
| 21 | Investigators report no progress in efforts to trace Basquiat 's last U.S. dealer , Vrej Baghoomian , who disappeared last spring with creditors in pursuit . |
| 22 | Although Angela Coulter and Jean Bradlow report no change in referral patterns in 16 general practices studied , we report a case that highlights the problems associated with patients travelling considerable distances for treatment of common conditions . |
| 23 | How was such malignant hatred brought to birth , when he had meant nothing but good , and tried with all his soul to work no evil against them ? |
| 24 | It is elicited by being ‘ pushed around ’ and yields the feeling that one 's self exercises no control over the circumstances surrounding it and the destiny awaiting it ’ . |
| 25 | Its radicals , who dominate the leadership , want no truck with Mr Gorbachev . |
| 26 | The bombs , guns and paras are there but it avoids stereotypes , reminding us that most of the people in Belfast simply want no truck with the war . |
| 27 | We want no repetition of the other evening . ’ |
| 28 | I have a great urge to throttle you , but that would prove I 'd inherited your madness and I want no trait of you to show in me , ever . |
| 29 | The Damara Council took their own path and said : ‘ Goodbye Swapo , we want no part of you ’ . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He 's in a world I want no part of ’ |