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 . |