Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [prep] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | I retraced my steps but to no avail . |
| 2 | In recent seasons the Hondas have rarely lacked the speed to destroy their rivals on the straights but with no Yamahas to beat this season , the battle for the championship will almost certainly be an all Honda battle . |
| 3 | This lasted for some weeks but at no time was the baby at risk either physically or psychologically nor was the mother and baby bond threatened . |
| 4 | Are there any good books on the subject , I have searched several good bookshops but to no avail ‘ Please help ’ . |
| 5 | The test involves experiments in which some children are trained to connect the two strategies while others are trained in the two strategies but with no explicit connection between them . |
| 6 | We made further searches but to no avail . |
| 7 | It may be tempting to go into schemes that promise a way out of difficulties but on no account apply your all-or-nothing approach to financial risks . |
| 8 | He believes all the right things but for no reasons at all or even for the wrong reasons . |
| 9 | Alternatively it may be of great specialist interest to the readers of a particular set of publications but of no personal interest or use to the staff on those journals . |
| 10 | A couple of Frenchmen last season were the latest to try and rearrange the Probyn features but to no avail . |
| 11 | The American narrowed the gap over the closing metres but to no avail , for Ben Johnson was making world history this day with a phenomenal new world record . |
| 12 | The recent Beethoven Fifth Symphony in Berlin had massively sustained tone in the fermatas but with no loss of forward impetus in the playing . |
| 13 | Fell he was and many were his victories but to no avail . |
| 14 | Immediately dominated by the teacher unions , who were committed to the maintenance of teacher autonomy , the Council soon came to view its tasks as increasing the range of choice available to teachers but in no way prescribing what and how they taught . |
| 15 | There was little structure to the market , Welsh Lamb Enterprise was seeking new markets but with no control over supplies , producer groups were operating mainly as dealers , and producers got neither the information they needed nor the returns . |
| 16 | I 've had men go through the registers but with no success . |
| 17 | This author worked with one teacher who was plunged into a viewdata exercise with 12 pupils and four microcomputers but with no knowledge of the software . |
| 18 | However , Jones claimed to see only neutrons , and a few of those only at levels that might be interesting to science and geophysicists but of no relevance to making commercial fusion reactors . ’ |
| 19 | If there is a lacuna in the law it is probably confined to combinations to do acts which amount to crimes but to no other wrong , but the exclusion of such cases from the tort of conspiracy may be a necessary consequence of Lonrho whatever the mental element required for the tort . |
| 20 | The play , which was first presented in the West End in 1988 , may have been overtaken by events but in no way seems dated by this factor . |
| 21 | A singe classroom in which for example Gujarati , pupils who speak a closely related language or a variety of language such as Katchi , pupils who can understand Gujarati , but not speak it , pupils with Gujarati surnames but with no knowledge of the language whatsoever , pupils with no family connections with the language , and so on . |