Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Hannah Arendt has shown , in times of crisis the existence of a formless mass can become the basis for a totalitarian dictatorship ; in times of prosperity it can lead to an all-encompassing smugness and self-satisfaction and to the existence of a regime which knows no criticism , no control and , above all , no real opposition and thus no arguments which contain alternatives . |
| 2 | It was a role to which he seemed well suited , for he displayed little originality of mind and almost no strong convictions — except in defence of the Church of England . |
| 3 | The senses of winding of the primary turns N' 1 and N' 2 are such that when there is no magnetic flux in the core of this second transformer and therefore no signal registered by the detector . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was just beginning to worry about his fuel situation when he was called into the searchlight area , only to be fired on by A.A. He advised Control that he was coming in to land and requested that the flare path be lit , but was advised that there was still an alert in force and therefore no flare path could be employed . |
| 6 | A bad burn could mean no usable clinker and hence no pay . |
| 7 | He used to export half his rice crop , but for four years there has been no export and so no incentive to grow more than he needs . |
| 8 | If the latter applies , there is no thing in action and so no property to steal . |
| 9 | Luckily we killed it before it became a full-blown institution and today no one seriously expects that food , or clothing , or even that overriding necessity , a television set , should be subsidised for all consumers , still less for a minority . |
| 10 | Rory smiled , grateful for the compliment but still no closer to the truth . |
| 11 | To begin with the user needs little if any re-training and certainly no real deign or layout skill while the software is a simple upgrade from existing word processing with the ability to dive page printers and incorporate simple graphics . |
| 12 | However the lack of any real on-screen help and virtually no graphics capability , the latter is supplied by another module , puts InteCalc about a year behind the times in terms of user friendliness and features . |
| 13 | Life there was hard , especially in winter and today no one over-winters on the island , islanders preferring to fish and farm in summer and to retreat to the comforts of Tromsø in winter . |
| 14 | First of July — there is a lot of activity on the road leading to the village but still no sign of a German attack or , more important , an Allied breakout . |
| 15 | It has been held to encompass not only traditional forms of jurisdictional error but also no evidence , and any error of law . |
| 16 | Judge Angus Stroyan QC said : ‘ This was no doubt an extremely unpleasant few seconds for the girl but really no more than a drunken antic . |
| 17 | Without desire there can be no attachment and so no loss and corresponding suffering . |
| 18 | And yet quite clearly there have been no significant increases in the productivity of Chinese agriculture and certainly no large scale industrialization . |
| 19 | No other creature possesses this akashic integration at a mind level and thus no other creature has anything barely resembling our human kind of language structure . |
| 20 | I settled in pretty quickly , though suffering a bit from culture shock and more from the realisation that I was semi-illiterate in the Thai language : I had the ability to communicate verbally but at a child 's level and almost no ability to read . |
| 21 | In the case of the customer with a perverted sense of humour there would however be no theft for there would probably be no dishonesty and certainly no intent permanently to deprive the owner of the goods themselves . |
| 22 | With no shell and thus no firm base on which to attach a muscle and nothing rigid to serve as a lever , these larvae are indifferent movers . |
| 23 | Ms or Mr Trim wakes up for an early morning drink , has tea or coffee with either no milk or skimmed milk and definitely no sugar . |
| 24 | In order not to bore my readers , I have left the subject alone for the past six months , but with the start of a new summer season approaching in Britain , it is perhaps time to take up some of the issues again ; for I see few signs that there is any change of heart and certainly no sign of a change of direction . |
| 25 | There is no point at which they unambiguously intersect experience and therefore no point where one of their contentions could be modified by behavioural data . |
| 26 | A week or so ago I heard — others may have done so , too — Lord Cockfield assert that ’ the British people had no moral right and probably no legal right ’ to resist the demands of a federal Europe . |
| 27 | I am sorry I have not been up to see you but , as you know , I have no job and therefore no income and no car , so life is both difficult and cold ( as I can not keep the heating on at home all day ) . |
| 28 | Because the only job we have n't capped , is continuous and there are no procedures for continued jobs yet , and we have not yet got an ad for Kathy job and therefore no procedures were a mythical thing . |
| 29 | 50 years of internecine warfare and still no armistice . |
| 30 | I once heard Dr Starkie lecture , and I 'm glad to report that she had an atrocious French accent ; one of those deliveries full of dame-school confidence and absolutely no ear , swerving between workaday correctness and farcical error , often within the same word . |