Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] no [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Believe in God for wrong reasons or for no reason at all and you can not expect to be free from doubt .
2 As this Report has noted , people of other faiths or of no faith , as well as Christians , are used by God to mediate his gift of music , and those who are not believers are as capable as those who are of responding to the power of religious music .
3 Without doubt , the construction of such a hegemonic bloc for socialist objectives must involve winning the support of many people who regard themselves as ‘ middle class ’ or of no class , many who have never considered themselves socialists , many who are not members of trade unions , by colonising and re-defining the notion of the popular or national interest ( while avoiding chauvinism and the opportunistic erasure of real social differences ) .
4 The same proportion thought that the feedback had not been very useful or of no use at all .
5 You will note in the Appendix that there is still a figure of 1,706 properties to be banded together with 3,618 which either have an indicator showing them to be metered supply or with no connection to the public water supply .
6 However it was broken down into sub-categories and these revealed non-completion rates of around 25% for those entering with ONC/OND or with no qualifications compared with a 15% non-completion rate for those with ‘ standard ’ qualifications .
7 This will be so if the same work is done by fewer employees or by no employees at all .
8 In a larger study assessing endurance over nine days under different levels of sleep loss , the APRE reported that with no sleep at all soldiers could only operate effectively for four days , while with I.5 hours ' sleep a day 50 per cent of a platoon lasted nine days in the field , and nearly all of a platoon allowed 3 hours sleep completed the nine-day exercise .
9 In use , VR1 will be adjusted so that with no music playing , the l.e.d. glows with about half its normal brightness .
10 Jonah said that with no police force or organized administration in the capital he was convinced of the need for a UN peacekeeping force , but that while Mahdi Mohammed was ready for one , Farah Aydid was opposed .
11 But she assures me that you are far better off with a lensless eye than with no eye at all .
12 The Publishers regret that under no circumstances will the magazine accept liability for non-receipt of goods ordered , or for late delivery , or for faults in manufacture .
13 The Publishers regret that under no circumstances will the magazine accept liability for non-receipt of goods ordered , or for late delivery , or for faults in manufacture .
14 ‘ Oh , we 've told the police that under no circumstances will we take any provocative action from them . ’
15 She is adamant that under no circumstances would she consent to further use of a nasogastric tube , whether or not she was drugged to such a degree that she felt little discomfort as it was pushed down into her stomach .
16 Lydon was adamant that under no circumstances would he rejoin the group .
17 ‘ But you 'll have to remember that under no circumstances at all can you expect the spell to last longer than seven days .
18 Will he also use this opportunity to give a categorical pledge that under no circumstances will he lift the ceiling on national insurance contributions , because that would , in effect , claw back the extra pay that teachers gained yesterday ?
19 Proposed mergers involving a projected turnover of under pounds 1,400 million could be examined by the Commission at the request of any state official , but the agreement said that under no circumstances could a merger qualify for both national and EC scrutiny at once .
20 Well he 's got it , he 's , he 's got his , he 's got erm a bill and the solicitor has told him that under no circumstances must I pay it .
21 Examination had also revealed several hooded eyes in the head , torso and arms ; all connected by a massive circuitry of unexplainable nerves and sinew which , although with no brain to relay messages still saw them , still swivelled and watched them move about the room as they examined it .
22 I saw a ‘ table mountain ’ and rugged peaks of every kind , although with no snow on the tops as yet .
23 Although with no dividend increase and the shares languishing at just 46p after yesterday 's fall , even the patience of anonymous South Africans must be sorely tested .
24 Although under no illusions concerning the brutal repression of the German communist party , Nizan was nonetheless optimistic enough at this stage not only to proclaim the tenacity of communist resistance to two years of fascist dictatorship , but also to assert the growing strength of the German masses , a potential opposition force to Nazi oppression .
25 Although under no illusions , therefore , that reactionary French and British governments would act resolutely to counter the imminent fascist threat , Nizan remained confident at this stage that international security could be maintained .
26 There were at Grunwick a group of exceptional women , women of great dignity and strength of personality like Jayaben Desai and Kalaben Patel who although in no sense ‘ westernised ’ had rejected traditional attitudes that women should be submissive and passive .
27 Although in no sense ‘ a povre Persoun of a Toun ’ this did not prevent him being ‘ also a lerned man , a clerk ’ .
28 Although in no sense a general theory , Foucault 's notion of power reformulates the problem of agency and determinism which had beset Sartre and many others by focusing on the possibility of making intelligible the strategies and techniques of local operations of power without relying on the dialectic of ideology and the consciousness of subjects , or on their corollary , the assumption that power operates globally and homogeneously .
29 However , the research assistant responsible for organizing fieldwork in the two outer-city community studies ( John Harris ) is an Ulsterman , and therefore , although in no sense associated with any of Ulster 's political pressure groups , was very conscious that there were parts of the city which he could not visit freely and confidently .
30 Over one year , while seven funds beat the sector on the basis of £10 a month invested , with the best performing fund — Friends Provident Stewardship North American — now worth £168.89 , the rest fall below the average , although in no cases would the building society have been a better bet .
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