Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the defendant 's contention were adopted , it would result that in no case of a doubtful claim could a compromise be enforced . |
| 32 | Thus , a military solution was seen as a primary requisite for solving the overall Indo-China problem ; but one that in no sense could be decisive without what the report called ‘ the application of political and economic techniques ’ . |
| 33 | It seemed that in no time she was forced indoors by huge raindrops that appeared to have come from nowhere . |
| 34 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 35 | Lori 's suite was several floors above , but the express lift whisked her upwards , so that in no time at all she was knocking on the door . |
| 36 | The Scots stopped short , went to d'Oysel and told him ‘ that in no wise would they invade England ’ . |
| 37 | It is a terrible thing to be clung to by a sick child if you are not used to it ; Fleury was very shaken by the power of the protective instinct which was suddenly aroused in him , although to no avail , for there was nothing he could do . |
| 38 | The results showed that on no measure of cognitive performance was there significant improvement during the clozapine phase , and on one measure , visual reproduction , performance worsened . |
| 39 | One woman who grows some big vegetables , but is normally more interested in quality , said that on no account would she touch one of the big pumpkins . |
| 40 | Undoubtedly he has argued that on no account is knowledge of necessary causes or real inner natures possible . |
| 41 | For example , at the end of July 1991 the French foreign trade minister , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , warned that on no account would France surrender its agricultural and industrial policies in the Uruguay Round . |
| 42 | Mrs St Albyn had before long heard the unpleasant rumours concerning the new tenants at Alfoxden , and ordered , in spite of Tom Poole 's intercession , that on no account should they remain at the mansion beyond the following midsummer . |
| 43 | Well , my advice is that on no account should you take your husband to see Basic Instinct . |
| 44 | ‘ I would have thought the Royals would have been warned by their security people that on no account should they use mobile phones for sensitive information because they are not secure . |
| 45 | I was outraged by it and got on to Smith at once , saying that on no account should the students be flogged and that if the sentence was carried out I would leave immediately . |
| 46 | And there have been er quite detailed negotiations between the two counties and my understanding is that North Yorkshire County Council have agreed with Humberside that on no account will their their proposals stray across the boundary into Humberside . |
| 47 | This account had it that de Castelnau was first turned away by the orderly officer , saying that on no account was the Commander-in-Chief to be disturbed . |
| 48 | The turnpikes can be reasonably considered the leading edge of road improvement , although at no time did ordinary roads not outnumber them by five to one . |
| 49 | Fisons adds that at no time did it use ‘ beer kegs ’ for storage during the manufacture of Imferon and that the bulk intermediate storage vessels , which looked like beer kegs , have now been replaced . |
| 50 | ( It 's also odd that at no time during the film is Brando seen to strike Harris anyway ! ) |
| 51 | And : ‘ Nigel would have been delighted at your success and I was very moved by your point that at no time was he attended or touched by any but those close to him . |
| 52 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 53 | They have argued that Elizabeth 's church contained a variety of acceptable doctrinal positions , that predestinarianism never managed to achieve the dominance accorded it by Tyacke , and that at no time during the sixty-five years between 1560 and 1625 was the idea that good works could be an aid to salvation anything other than a perfectly orthodox belief . |
| 54 | Ms Tyson may protest too much ; but she could certainly argue that at no time in the previous two administrations did everyone involved in trade policy sing from the same songbook . |
| 55 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 July 1992 M. appealed on the ground that at no time had he been personally served with either the committal order or a copy and that accordingly the order should be set aside . |
| 56 | These conditions are that at no time during the relevant accounting reference period — ; |
| 57 | Will he bear in mind the fact that at no time did Bentley discourage Craig verbally from firing that gun , that he brought a 16-year-old accomplice , armed , to commit a robbery and that the Lord Chief Justice had every justification for what he did ? |
| 58 | The famous British journalist and broadcaster , Alistair Cooke , recalled that at no time in his many years in the United States did he receive such a " blizzard of disgusted mail " from the old country . |
| 59 | The worrying thing was that at no time did Leeds actually put together a great move which tore Sunderland apart . |
| 60 | First of all I that at no time have the Labour , the Liberal and the Conservative not been totally in favour of this fire station . |