Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief inspector had just come , case or no case , from setting a close watch on those spots , in expectation — in foreboding , rather — that the flood would bring some unusual freight aground very shortly . |
| 2 | The writer filed the exhibit for future reference , happy that court case or no court case , the pop star in question had a sense of humour . |
| 3 | Still , scam or no scam , there 's no denying , especially not from Galliano themselves , that the tag is currently working full steam ahead in their flavour . |
| 4 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 5 | We accept then that , responsibility or no responsibility , commission or no commission , prices may behave in such a way that profits rise faster than a certain rate , that rate being the rate at which incomes other than profits — or perhaps incomes including profits ? — are increasing . |
| 6 | Computer or no computer , I should certainly not have been able to handle the mathematics myself but John Cook likes that sort of thing and using the Mercury computer at Farnborough he was able to map the stresses very close to the tip of a crack which had a finite tip radius . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend think that , election or no election , the sooner they get on with it the better ? |
| 8 | Thirteen patients did not enter the study : two did not want to , two were pregnant at the time of colposcopy , and nine were not treated in accordance with the study protocol ( no cervical scrape or no biopsy specimen was taken or no treatment was given when the biopsy specimen showed cervical intraepithelial neoplasia ) . |
| 9 | They are likely to have low self esteem , a low income or no money . |
| 10 | That leaves plenty of room for discounters to prosper , recession or no recession . |
| 11 | And even Hoggatt 's Laboratory , blood or no blood , had been part of the village for over seventy years , while Chevisham Manor had stood for nearly three times as long . |
| 12 | ‘ I am by no means suggesting that there is no crime or no violence , obviously that is not true . |
| 13 | Profit and loss — either record an expense or no effect . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'd be questioned fast enough at the gate-house , seal or no seal , ’ said Harry gloomily , ‘ if you had me with you . ’ |
| 15 | Louisa 's solitude , the wary alertness of her face , the way — symbolically at least — she brought the bright sword of her intellect to her defence — these and many other factors required this particular card and no other as her ambassador in the court of Le Grand Jeu . |
| 16 | There is no fee for the card and no interest is charged provided that the account is settled in full every month . |
| 17 | Wearing a black cardigan and no make-up , she rummaged in her bag for her superstar life-saver kit — The Dark Glasses . |
| 18 | Addressing a crowd of 25,000 in the capital Addis Ababa on Sept. 12 , the 16th anniversary of the 1974 overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie [ see pp. 26733-36 ] , President Mengistu Haile Mariam appealed to Ethiopians to defend their country before it reached a point of " collapse and no return " . |
| 19 | From the lake the coypu man would have seen Rufus sleeping under the umbrella on the terrace and no doubt also seen Mary and probably spoken to her — have practically been assaulted by her . |
| 20 | It was claimed that closure would affect the local atmosphere since the school acted as a focus of activity yet there was little mention of any economic loss and no fear of any demographic effects . |
| 21 | He was a soldier and no war could bring greater prestige than the war against the Saracens , the war in the Holy Land , the emotional centre of the Christian world . |
| 22 | This went to the very heart of an ideal that , although lacking cohesion , was encapsulated in Labour 's programme and no other . |
| 23 | It has no mind and no mind 's eye . |
| 24 | There is an increasing number of young inmates so cut off from their feelings that they have no fear and no sense of compassion . |
| 25 | To swim a distance of 3.1 kilometres in five hours , with a solid roof and no air space above you , visibility often zero and only a thin nylon line to follow , must be most people 's idea of the worst dive in the world … |
| 26 | It had no roof and no floor , just hundreds of brick arches piled one on top of another like a team of acrobats . |
| 27 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 28 | But now I wanted to be somewhere that had a future and no past to carry . |
| 29 | It was n't a policy-making meeting , there was no vote and no debate , so any women could have gone . |
| 30 | Insecurity must have something to do with it an insecurity about the musical self-sufficiency of absolute melody , so foreign to our modern western way of musical thinking , compounded by the performer 's fear of standing before an audience with no instrument and no accompaniment to hide behind or use as a prop … |