Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Institutions which concede no place for feelings and assume that the two aspects of our lives , private and public , have to be kept absolutely separate , are not healthy for anyone . |
| 2 | National rules sometimes impose conditions on business activity which make no reference to nationality , but nevertheless have the practical effect of discriminating on grounds of nationality . |
| 3 | Accordingly , women may abandon them and try to fit into institutional patterns which make no sense to them but which they are constantly assured are superior . |
| 4 | When exactly this act of depaganisation took place is impossible to say , but the crosses would have been made much easier to carve before the removal of the stones , which show no sign of damage and were , therefore , meant for re-use . |
| 5 | Here the prevalence of people susceptible to infectious agents would tend to be higher than in urban areas or in adjacent rural areas , which show no excess ( tables II and VI ) . |
| 6 | Poems which show no trace of a late composition , however , are also deeply sceptical of wealthy patrons . |
| 7 | ‘ Such an antiquity , ’ he wrote , ‘ is necessary to account for the number of animal forms it possesses , which show no relation to those of India or Australia . ’ |
| 8 | The ministry is keen to turn the area into a national park , seeing the monkeys , which show no fear of humans , as a potential attraction for " ecotourists " . |
| 9 | To economize on cash holdings ( which earn no interest ) , financial institutions hold other highly liquid assets which act as reserves , but which nevertheless earn them some interest ( see pages 658–60 ) . |
| 10 | Late snow beds are rare in the hills , though limited areas may survive on screes in north-facing corries which receive no winter sun and relatively little summer sun . |
| 11 | The more selective bibliographies — such as those in ‘ lists for further reading ’ — are often more useful than the sort of lengthy , unclassified bibliographies which give no clue to the standing of individual items . |
| 12 | In 6.2 , 15 files ( letters , memos , reports etc. ) will be stored on disk under filenames which convey no meaning . |
| 13 | It also explains why those cetaceans which produce no sonar clicks also lack a melon and lower jaw modifications . |
| 14 | AB 's business was sold to XY Ltd as a going concern prior to the liquidator 's appointment , at which point no stock remained with AB . |
| 15 | The door had one of those big printed signs which shout NO ENTRY at everybody . |
| 16 | In the last 21 years the British state has developed a range of counter-insurgency techniques which have been exported all over the world : ‘ special units ’ such as the SAS , sectarian shoot-to-kill squads , political laws , special courts , media censorship and new styles of torture which leave no mark . |
| 17 | At frieze-level there are not triglyphs and metopes but usually a row of small , close-set blocks , dentils , which offer no field for figure-carving . |
| 18 | The category of underemployment refers to an area of work that includes street selling , shoe-shining , refuse collecting for sale , prostitution and many other activities which offer no security and bring in very meagre earnings . |
| 19 | Speech act theory begins with the observation that there is a class of highly ritualistic utterances which carry no information about the world outside language at all , because they refer only to themselves . |
| 20 | With this performance , the Hagen Quarter seem resolved to provide argument refuting facile suggestions of Op. 135 as ‘ a reversion to Haydn ’ , suggestions which do no credit to either composer . |
| 21 | Such medical assessments are often used for making adverse employment decisions against people for trivial reasons and in respect of the mildest of conditions which bear no relationship to the requirements of the job . |
| 22 | The financial details of the transaction to which the hon. Member referred , and which bear no resemblance to those that he described , took place two years after my noble Friend left the Government . |
| 23 | They edit games and the result is highlights which bear NO resemblance to the actual match . |
| 24 | Has he a secret agenda to put VAT , for example , on items which bear no VAT at present , such as railway fares , books and periodicals ? |
| 25 | On the other hand the production of separate leaflets can be staggered and additions and alterations can be made at any time quickly and less expensively ; and some leaflets , which require no alteration from year to year , need not be reprinted for one or two years . |
| 26 | Forms , reports and queries can be created using a graphical front-end palette of tools and other components which require no programming and no knowledge of SQL , Bowers claims . |
| 27 | In a situation of panic , in an army , for example , there is a loss of the libidinal ties which hold the group together , and people behave in ways which take no account of the group : it is each man for himself ; orders are ignored . |
| 28 | ( c ) Restrictions on partners ' authority ( See Clauses 6 ( in relation to accounts ) and 18 ( generally ) ) No body of partners will wish any one of its number to have unlimited authority to incur liabilities in their firm name so as to make all members potentially liable even in respect of transactions which form no part of the normal business of the firm . |
| 29 | If either of these sentences were true , the story would not have been worth telling , since the conversion would have been a purely fanciful affair which bore no relevance to Lewis at the deepest levels of his being . |
| 30 | After touring the Cote Sauvage we had a perfect lunch in a crep erie : galettes — whole-wheat crepes made from sarazin ( black wheat ) — filled with ham or melted cheese and accompanied by foaming mugs of Breton cider ; then crisp lacy brown crepes with sugar and jam or chocolate sauce , which bore no resemblance to the limp pancakes served under that name in America . |