Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] no [noun] " 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 your claim is £650 or less no costs at all will be awarded to you .
6 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 ’ ) .
7 Hedges with few shrub species , wire fences , or even no features at all , can all mark the edge of early documented parishes .
8 Far better have many moots with a small or even no audience than one moot with a large audience .
9 Or even no children at all ?
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 While some studies indicate a direct or indeed no relation between the serum cholesterol concentration and large bowel cancer , others indicate an inverse relation .
13 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 .
14 Not only were there more of them than of other groups living in poverty or on the margins of poverty ; more had no assets or virtually no assets , and fewer possessed substantial amounts of assets …
15 Areas where almost no change from current air quality will be allowed .
16 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 .
17 That , or else no deal .
18 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. ) .
19 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 .
20 On the whole , academics will trade time for quality , although sometimes no doubt they use quality as an excuse for not being on time .
21 ‘ Every bullet has his billet ’ is a distinctively modern saying , first recorded in that form in 1765 , and in use up to the present day to indicate that sometimes no precautions work ; yet saying the proverb , and believing it , probably never stopped anyone taking cover .
22 The object is to re-define the rapist so that almost no man is outside its scope .
23 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 .
24 ‘ Parts of the Chambers Street building are 130 years-old and we found that virtually no maintenance had been carried out .
25 The cost is more than made up for by the fact that virtually no man-hours are lost through strike action .
26 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 .
27 Trade union representatives saw themselves as being accountable either to their respective trade union or to the regional TUC ( the nominating body ) , although virtually no employers ' representatives saw themselves as being accountable to regional or national CBI and many were unaware they had been nominated by this body .
28 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 .
29 Profits in the UK are also ahead of last year 's , Graham says , although again no figures were available .
30 ‘ It is well settled that certainly no person made responsible for a judicial decision can delegate his responsibility .
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