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

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1 But a different system had prevailed at Wyvis Hall , or rather no system had prevailed at all .
2 I HAVE always suffered from an easily bruised ego ( the result of either too early , too late , or perhaps no toilet training ) .
3 This kind of art 's often referred to as minimal art , which helps , you know , like most stables there 's a quite way of referring to stuff , and indeed very often this kind of art relates to very simple forms , which just one colour , or perhaps no colour if it 's a piece of wood for instance , or a large canvass covered with just one colour , a monochrome canvas — you referred to monochromes earlier .
4 Of the outside world , I had more or less no knowledge .
5 If the prime function of judicial review is seen as being to provide remedies against unlawful behaviour by government , then there should be only an absolutely minimal standing requirement such as ‘ taxpayer ’ or ‘ citizen ’ , or even no requirement at all ( ‘ any person ’ ) .
6 Far better have many moots with a small or even no audience than one moot with a large audience .
7 By a notice of appeal dated 1 June 1992 W. appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the High Court had no jurisdiction , or alternatively no jurisdiction should be exercised , to overrule the refusal of a competent minor aged 16 to undergo medical treatment ; ( 2 ) section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 should have been applied ; ( 3 ) the judge had erred in applying observations of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 which were erroneous ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly found that in respect of the Children Act 1989 the minor 's right of refusal was limited to the stage of assessment ; and ( 5 ) the judge had failed to have sufficient regard to the medical evidence against transferring W. , to the advantages of not moving her and to her wishes and his decision was plainly wrong .
8 The applicant should therefore come to court with a future treatment plan and be prepared to explain why any other type of order under the Act , or indeed no order at all , would be inappropriate .
9 While some studies indicate a direct or indeed no relation between the serum cholesterol concentration and large bowel cancer , others indicate an inverse relation .
10 The last full analysis of reported cases , made in 1980 , shows 41 per cent to be occurring in tropical Africa ( where virtually no attempt at control has been made so far ) , 22 per cent in the Indian subcontinent and 31 per cent in Eastern Asia and Oceania ; only 5 per cent of cases were reported from Europe , the Eastern Mediterranean and Central and South America .
11 Areas where almost no change from current air quality will be allowed .
12 Commonly not exceeding a couple of pounds , the church stock reached an exceptional £7. 6s. at Waddesdon , Bucks. , though as often as not it was nil , or else no figure was given , some certificates consistently omitting it .
13 That , or else no deal .
14 So , in a case where the seller was to build a yacht for the buyer and they agreed that on payment of the first instalment the vessel and all materials used in its construction should become the absolute property of the buyer , the court held that nevertheless no property passed on payment of the first instalment because at that time the boat 's construction had not commenced and the materials to be used had not yet been identified , McDougall v. Aeromarine of Emsworth Ltd. ( 1958 Q.B. ) .
15 Although clearly no pauper , and equally obviously ‘ a great ambassador for the game ’ as everyone stresses , Bobby Charlton remains mysteriously unclaimed by commerce and untouched by the dead hand of blandness .
16 On the whole , academics will trade time for quality , although sometimes no doubt they use quality as an excuse for not being on time .
17 The object is to re-define the rapist so that almost no man is outside its scope .
18 Mr. Dear says that almost no action that could be registered and measured by Her Majesty 's inspector has yet been taken by the police committee .
19 ‘ Parts of the Chambers Street building are 130 years-old and we found that virtually no maintenance had been carried out .
20 The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done .
21 It is the plaintiff 's case that [ the agreement ] created no term sufficiently identifiable to be capable of recognition by the law , and that accordingly no tenancy was created .
22 ‘ It is well settled that certainly no person made responsible for a judicial decision can delegate his responsibility .
23 Although certainly no fan of Guns N'Roses and their offensive lyrics , I am pleased that he has spoken about the still largely-hidden subject of male sexual assault .
24 Many of our partners and allies take the position that they do not recognise governments and that therefore no question of recognition arises in such cases .
25 One fairly obvious analogy is the type of case considered by this court in In re Chase ( No. 2 ) [ 1989 ] 1 N.Z.L.R. 345 where , following in particular the decision of the Privy Council in Tampion v. Anderson [ 1973 ] 3 A.L.R. 414 , the view was taken that an order dismissing an action on the ground that there was no reasonable cause of action was an interlocutory judgment and that therefore no appeal lay as of right .
26 The problem was with the principle of benefit , since the debtor had received no benefit mortis causa , and arguably no benefit at all .
27 His hope had been that she might have moved on before the word got around , no chance for gossip and so no awkwardness , but his sense of firm control in that area seemed to have slipped away from him .
28 From this point of view , the liberal-democratic British constitution is applauded as pretty much the best in the world and so no case is made for constitutional reconstruction .
29 The other , more plausible , avenue is to accept that the phenomena discussed would normally be established by linguistic means but that is in no way a necessary feature of them , and so no problem of principle need arise .
30 The Court of Appeal had held that there was no trade dispute and so no protection for the trade union officials .
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