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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 ( It 's also odd that at no time during the film is Brando seen to strike Harris anyway ! )
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 These conditions are that at no time during the relevant accounting reference period — ;
10 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 ?
11 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 .
12 The worrying thing was that at no time did Leeds actually put together a great move which tore Sunderland apart .
13 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 .
14 Mr Teague said that at no time was Paul Jones ever hit with a cane or whip , at no time was he tied upside down and hit , he was never forced to get up early to feed the animals , or ill-treated in any way whatsoever .
15 Questioned by Mr Macfadyen , he said that at no time had Mackie used the phrase profit warning or give the impression such an announcement was about to be made .
16 The National Industrial Relations Court found that at no stage were the employees asked if they were prepared to move to Fulham and at no stage did they indicate that they were prepared to move .
17 It is of course correct that at no stage was the purchase of either property made legally conditional upon the purchase of the other .
18 Where a court is considering whether a provision does or does not cover X the rule will not admit the parliamentary history of the provision to demonstrate that at no stage in the parliamentary proceedings was there any suggestion that the provision covered X. It remains to be seen how long judges in the United Kingdom will be able to require negative evidence from parliamentary material to establish that an admissible statement is an expression of parliamentary intention , but exclude such evidence as an aid to construction .
19 I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference .
20 I have just said that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Irish Defence Minister taken part in any conference talks .
21 It has been estimated , however , that at no point in the century did membership of such Societies exceed 6,000 , a figure roughly comparable to the number of adherents of the New Jerusalem Church of the Swedenborgians .
22 Checking his purchases against her list as he approached the checkout , he was pleased to find that at no point did the two coincide .
23 ‘ But ’ , as Mrs Napier George Sturt described in her Life of Charles Stun , ‘ these paintings had been the delight of Sturt 's leisure ; he was devoted to ornithology , and had collected the rarer specimens at great trouble and risk , and at no price would he part with the folio . ’
24 There would be a boost to industry from the greater net disposable income , and at no cost to the consumer in need , because VAT does not apply to food and necessities .
25 The National Industrial Relations Court found that at no stage were the employees asked if they were prepared to move to Fulham and at no stage did they indicate that they were prepared to move .
26 But at no point in these years did the Armed Forces take the initiative in resolving political disputes and at no stage was it brought into intrigue by discontented Party factions ( exempting , of course , the First Secretary himself ) .
27 He stated : " Haughey had retained all but one of the tapes I gave him , and at no stage indicated disapproval of the action that had been taken . "
28 He was obviously in a worse state than I had imagined because to Toby a bar invariably meant a sponsor 's tent where the booze flowed like water , and at no expense to the consumer .
29 It also brought up the art quote of the year , from one Ziff Fistrunk ( no , I do not make up the name ) , director of the Southside Chicago Sports Council , who organised the protest : ‘ I have trained players in Little League and semi-pro baseball , and at no time did I train them naked . ’
30 In other words , despite all the efforts of people anxious to prove otherwise , the fact is that man 's need for a ‘ god ’ has always been met as a result of his own efforts , and at no time supernaturally .
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