Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [vb pp] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | When hourly gastric outputs were compared , no significant correlation was found between NANA and lyso platelet activating factor ( r=0.08 ; p=0.6 ) , NANA , and AAGPC ( r=0.45 ; p=0.06 ) ; again , when concentrations were compared no significant correlation was found between NANA ( µg/ml ) and lyso platelet activating factor ( ng/ml ) ( r=0.4 ; p= 0.19 ) or NANA and AAGPC ( µg/ml ) ( r=0.05 ; p=0.86 ) . |
| 2 | These parents were allowed no role at all . |
| 3 | second , where on registration of a charge the Registrar ( as he can be required to do ) issues a certificate of registration stating the date on which particulars of a charge were delivered to him , this is made conclusive evidence that the particulars were delivered no later than the date stated on the certificate and a presumption that they were delivered no earlier . |
| 4 | His ban on assault weapons was helped no end by the fact that in February , in the midst of the floor fight in the legislature , a terrorist 's bomb exploded in the World Trade Centre in New York . |
| 5 | And half the people who hired items were given no verbal advice on choosing and using them . |
| 6 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 7 | The barracks were single-storey huts , each with forty raised stone slabs to serve as beds. prisoners were allowed no personal possessions such as photographs of their families , let alone items like radios or hobby materials , so , apart from some religious paintings on the walls , the dormitories had an austere look , each ‘ bed ’ furnished only with a jute mat and pillow , together with the prisoner 's plate , spoon and mug . |
| 8 | His success led to the rapid demise of the native English tradition by 1730 , and the slender , short-scaled harpsichords were made no more . |
| 9 | The children were given no explanations , no assurances ; only the oldest of the nine , a fifteen-year-old boy , was told they were to be questioned for a day . |
| 10 | The children were allowed no breakfast , the younger two were not permitted to go to the bathroom , and none of them was allowed to take a single personal possession , not even a teddy bear or something to be a link with home . |
| 11 | These nine children were allowed no crumbs of comfort whatsoever . |
| 12 | In the centuries where children were treated like Oliver Twist and worse ; where children were beaten , half-starved , and put to work for sixteen hours a day and more ; it is not surprising that horses were treated no better . |
| 13 | It was clear from this ruling that if an existing shareholder who bought or sold shares was owed no special duty of disclosure then neither was an outsider who , having no pre-existing relationship to the company , bought shares from an insider . |