Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] no [noun sg] " 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 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 .
7 In use , VR1 will be adjusted so that with no music playing , the l.e.d. glows with about half its normal brightness .
8 But she assures me that you are far better off with a lensless eye than with no eye at all .
9 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 .
10 I saw a ‘ table mountain ’ and rugged peaks of every kind , although with no snow on the tops as yet .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Although in no sense ‘ a povre Persoun of a Toun ’ this did not prevent him being ‘ also a lerned man , a clerk ’ .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Our GP told me that a drug called Dexamethazone , although in no way a cure , would probably help Nigel 's state of mind by reducing the pressure of the growth on his brain .
17 ‘ And none suspects ? ’ asked Forest with a carelessness that in no measure deceived the constable .
18 This latter undertaking was , however , independent of and severable from that of the shareholders and there was no reason why it should not be enforceable by the shareholders among themselves as a personal agreement that in no way fettered TBL in the exercise of its statutory powers .
19 It was that in no way was I going to bring a coffin from Stoke-on-Trent to Llandderfel on the roof-rack of a Metro and that they were driving north for the weekend and would stop off and pick it up on the way home .
20 I have to say that in no way will this option be better than the colour changer , because for Norwegian jacquard , you will still have to make a semi-automatic colour change with the jacquard claw every two rows and this is slower .
21 Worse than that would be success by means that in no way reflect the need for a radical , popular paper . ’
22 The two divers , Chief Petty Officer Carrington and Petty Officer Grant , were curiously alike , both aged about thirty , of medium height and compact build : both were much given to smiling , a cheerfulness that in no way detracted from their almost daunting aura of competence .
23 Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited .
24 Your author wishes to make clear that in no way are any aspersions being cast upon the firms involved .
25 After that she would make her way back to her aunt , her mission a failure , because she now knew that in no way would Silas be persuaded to go cap in hand to Bertha .
26 It should be noted that in no way does the TDA 1968 enhance the consumer 's contractual rights ( s35 ) , its aim simply being to ensure , by criminal sanctions that the consumer is not misled .
27 They explained that in no way could it have come from the plant because it had the best preventive system for any smell , dust or poisonous substances that might otherwise destroy the environment .
28 But he emphasizes very strongly that in no way does this mean that there is no longer scope for their further development , or that their return to profitability is a flash in the pan , to be reversed whenever the next downturn comes .
29 Erm where I have to qualify my my support is is , and and I do particularly want to stress that in no way would I accept the exceptions policy as a substitute to an appropriate increase in the employment alloca allocation for Selby District .
30 ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice .
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