Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a sense this Northern mythology asks more of men , even makes more of them , than does Christianity , for it offers them no heaven , no salvation , no reward for virtue except the sombre satisfaction of having done what is right . |
| 2 | The star reincarnates his No Name as an avenging ghost in a High Noon -style rotten community , forcing them to paint their town red before he stands up to the killers who are about to ride through and finally saving the place only by burning it down ( a process the US army tried in Vietnam ) . |
| 3 | If your hair causes you no concern , count yourself lucky . |
| 4 | But at the work-place the pursuit of profit allows him no time to be distracted with personal pursuits better attended to elsewhere . |
| 5 | This is an example of an attempt to grapple with the issue of discontinuity from within a problematic which allows it no space . |
| 6 | I , I mean , I think he he shows her no encouragement |
| 7 | To publish falsely , of an Irish priest , that he informed on members of the IRA is not defamatory : it may cause him to be executed by terrorists , but the law offers him no way of securing a correction . |
| 8 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
| 9 | Gives them no peace . " |
| 10 | ‘ Lone and level sands ’ — that 's Ozymandias , you know — but it really gives you no idea . |
| 11 | Lissa said with crushing force , ‘ Whether or not she is your sister gives you no right to make slanderous , evil accusations . |
| 12 | I recognised at school that I had the talent to become a politician when , at the end of a particularly bad term , the headmaster wrote on my report , ’ One can not help but be quite captivated by him , provided one gives him no work to do . ’ |
| 13 | The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion . |
| 14 | She responds to a comment by the monk on how she appears to have passed the night in sexual " labour " by bemoaning what she suffers as a wife , implying that her husband gives her no pleasure in bed and is mean with his money . |
| 15 | He gives it no emphasis , does n't try to persuade . |
| 16 | Just because Council is delegated in the matter of routine gives it no right to assume such a role when it proposes such a mammoth commitment . |
| 17 | What evidence do we have that the alien means us no harm ? |
| 18 | He gives us no sign that he believes God will provide a substitute at the last moment , no sign of a conviction that all will be well in the end . |
| 19 | If a large part of consciousness is ignored in the mentioned audacious way , and the logico-linguistic criterion is used to discriminate the remaining part , it gives us no analysis or understanding of that remaining part . |
| 20 | We might reply that the simplicity of cave communities is idiosyncratic rather than typical : we might ask what general ecological insights we are going to obtain from communities that lack photosynthetic plants and herbivores , and are maintained by detritus flushed down from above : but Dr Culver gives us no answer . |
| 21 | Locke suggests that his corpuscular account of objects , and our perception of them , gives us no reason to think of snow 's coldness and whiteness like this . |
| 22 | For apart from Lenin 's conviction that there is always a dominant instance at a time of social stability , and a dominant contradiction at a time of social change , Althusser gives us no reason to believe that there need only be one aspect of society which bears this relation to the mode of production . |
| 23 | Its truthful and intimate style gives us no reason for supposing that we are seeing anything other than Handel at home — his own comfortable and well worn chair , his own clothes and his own table . |
| 24 | The eggs hatch in two or three days , and the larvae cling to the leaf for a similar period , unless dislodged by the aeration ( this does them no harm ) . |
| 25 | Instead , they are likely to suggest that some methods of discipline can be used to help prevent a young person absconding from care so long as this does them no harm . |
| 26 | I might really believe that smoking cigarettes does me no harm . |
| 27 | I may give away everything I have , and even give up my body to be burned — but if I have no love this does me no good . |
| 28 | Chairman in your haste to get your own way for once , I mean , I had my hand up for about ten minutes and I thought that er , er our friend on your right had appraised you of that , because I think that you gave just as much a distorted view of what the real problem is , as perhaps Mr did , and I think that the way you railroaded that one through does you no credit at all . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's all the same , my son , all the same and it does you no good in the end . ’ |
| 30 | My own cardiologist likes his Scotch , as I do , and says that a glass of whisky in moderation does you no harm at all . |