Example sentences of "has no " in BNC.

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1 The only problem is , she is Ugandan and speaks very little English , has no idea how to get home and has no money for transport .
2 The only problem is , she is Ugandan and speaks very little English , has no idea how to get home and has no money for transport .
3 In November 1990 , the Government conceded that the Immigration ( Carriers Liability ) Act and associated visa requirements ‘ do indeed prevent some asylum seekers from coming to the UK ’ , but further stated that it ‘ has no obligation to encourage or assist would-be asylum seekers … to come here and enter our procedures ’ .
4 He knew and practised all the rules of art , and from a composition of Raphael , Carracci , and Guido , made up a style , of which the only fault was , that it has no manifest defects and no striking beauties ; and that the principles of his composition are never blended together , so as to form one uniform body original in its kind , or excellent in any view .
5 Unlike old-fashioned narrative history , art has no decisive battles , no international treaties , and no changes of government .
6 The art critic has no decisive voice in such controversies , though arguments can be made by analogy from existing art to what may be done .
7 The Siva statue has no such direct representational reference .
8 The man upstairs , the first husband whom Maria is to leave , is not ‘ self-aware ’ — unlike Zuckerman , who declares , on behalf of the self-aware , that he has no self and that the self is a joke .
9 The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books .
10 This tendency has no counterpart in Levi , and it may be doubtful whether it could live with the subject-matter of the camps .
11 And do n't let your search for material lead you to choose the obscure for obscurity 's sake , so you feel you will be sure to stun the panel with a piece that has no good professional background .
12 Henry has no wish to do this and chooses to explain to Annie why he finds Brodie 's work clumsy and ill-constructed .
13 This may prove more effective if the girl playing the wife has no idea of what the scene is going to be about .
14 Improvisation should not , in any way , be confused with the rather general idea of ‘ making things up as you go along ’ , which has no real purpose beyond that of entertainment .
15 Their culture has no rights , no claim to an alternative identity .
16 The state has no role in the appointment of bishops and the juridical processes of church and state are kept entirely separate , though it will be seen that a number of administrative procedures reflect a direct link .
17 ‘ Contemporary design ’ , the magazine 's editor regretted , ‘ because it has no roots in the vernacular idiom … will not appear immediately familiar ’ , whilst the ‘ mock-Tudor and the mock-Georgian styles which have been so prevalent — no matter how misguided in themselves — have sprung … from a genuine attempt to preserve a traditional atmosphere ’ .
18 Everything from the bread to the petit fours , is home-made and she has no help in the kitchen .
19 If your container has no drainage holes , it is essential to plant in bulb fibre , which is a compost of peat or a peat substitute with crushed oyster shell and charcoal added to keep the compost sweet .
20 Because of the connection between vision and sensations , the latter are greatly amplified when visibility is poor , or when the pilot is looking in the cockpit , has no visual reference and is unaware of the exact movements of the aircraft .
21 Such expansions of police power were forecast by E. P. Thompson ( 1980 ) , who considered this to be a period which has no equal .
22 No one , of course , has asked to read it , for — if my argument is correct — the service has no need of any reminder of how the ideology works or how to implement the paradigms which support their cultural norms .
23 possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or …
24 Jamie has no demons like you and defies you with being a skunk Repulsive to humanity and most of the animal kingdom , but irresistible to another skunk !
25 Although the opposing team has no chance of winning , any attempt to withdraw your remaining team-member(s) may well be rewarded by disqualification of the entire team for bad sportsmanship .
26 The rear guard hand must also be carried forwards ; allowing it to rest against the rib cage is a hold-over from basic technique which has no place in competition .
27 He has no memory of any such difficulties , only of how stable society was then .
28 Its centre normally lies in the conflict between father and son ( of which Leonard never speaks ) and the ensuing guilt ( which , likewise , has no explicit reference ) , though the anger may have eclipsed that .
29 ‘ He has no respect for the foot .
30 John Searle has compared the computational view of mind to an Englishman who has no understanding of Chinese processing Chinese symbols according to rules which correspond to the grammar of Chinese : what he deals with may be meaningful Chinese sentences , but he is none the wiser .
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