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

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1 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 .
2 However it was broken down into sub-categories and these revealed non-completion rates of around 25% for those entering with ONC/OND or with no qualifications compared with a 15% non-completion rate for those with ‘ standard ’ qualifications .
3 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 .
4 In use , VR1 will be adjusted so that with no music playing , the l.e.d. glows with about half its normal brightness .
5 Jonah said that with no police force or organized administration in the capital he was convinced of the need for a UN peacekeeping force , but that while Mahdi Mohammed was ready for one , Farah Aydid was opposed .
6 But she assures me that you are far better off with a lensless eye than with no eye at all .
7 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 .
8 I saw a ‘ table mountain ’ and rugged peaks of every kind , although with no snow on the tops as yet .
9 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 .
10 Dorothea prayed , very formally and with no hope whatsoever , for Eleanor Thorne .
11 But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind .
12 Allen , ankle-deep in water and with no hope of carrying the ball forward , chalked up his 14th of the season when he unleashed a crashing 25-yard volley which gave goalkeeper Graziani no chance .
13 Alone forever , and with no hope , no joy , no warmth …
14 Would you prefer to move to a flat — one without so much as a balcony and with no windowsills — or to concrete your garden over and spend your days watching your neighbours at work ?
15 This was achieved through a carefully planned programme of voluntary redundancies and with no manufacturing disruption or imbalance to the skill mix .
16 Imagine how they must have felt in St Peter 's Square at the start of their journey — apprehensive , isolated and with no knowledge of either Italian , French or German .
17 Old people with poor housing and with no families or supportive neighbours fill more geriatric beds .
18 In such a case the impression is given that Jesus is , as it were on his own , and with no reference needing to be made to the other persons of the trinity , God .
19 Candidates having been selected , and with no reference to that imaginary balanced slate , how does the Irish voter choose between them ?
20 Unable to buy and with no council houses available many agricultural workers are forced to seek accommodation in the only local alternative that is available to them — tied cottages .
21 At one extreme were the countries characterized as majoritarian on both dimensions : in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand , for example , power is concentrated into the majority party ; n a two-party ( or virtually so ) system , where rule occurs without a written constitution and with no dispersal of power to subsidiary governments .
22 It was only a cast-iron lump with pushrod valvegear , of course , and with no pretensions to be anything more exotic ; even in 1964 we observed that ‘ although this comparatively unsophisticated six-cylinder engine must now be very near the end of its development , it seems to have gained in flexibility and is virtually free from any temperament . ’
23 The big fellow 's progress will be followed with intense interest by those on both sides of the fence in the argument about his best position , but he soldiers on , keen to learn and with no pretensions .
24 The ‘ most dreadful ’ feeling was being completely exposed to the bombing , powerless to do anything about it , and with no sign of any retaliation .
25 ‘ Here am I , in my thirteenth summer and wedded to a boy of ten who will be unable to complete the marriage for at least five years — and with no sign of a bosom to show I am truly a damsel full grown ! ’
26 When individuals communicate mixed messages , they usually do it spontaneously and with no sign that the message is mixed .
27 Safer , cleaner and with no damage to the visual environment gas is brought to the nation 's customers quietly and efficiently .
28 His interest in the precedents is exhausted , for this purpose at least , once he is satisfied that according to his conception of law they establish only that mothers at the scene have a right to recover , and this is clear immediately and with no reflection about larger underlying principles whose nature is a matter of dispute .
29 He spoke casually and with no sense of irony .
30 In the past five years 12 patients have been identified presenting with chronic duodenal ulcer ( DU ) disease and with no evidence of current or recent Helicobacter pylori ( H pylori ) infection .
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