Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The short judgments proceed on the simple ground that the sheriff was not entitled to retain sums which he had no legal right to demand , but the sums were demanded in return for the rendering of a service , namely the issuing of warrants , so the case is capable of being rationalised on the basis that they were exacted colore officii , a concept which emerged more clearly in later cases . |
| 2 | As David Carlton has written , this plan ‘ represented a willingness to buy off a bully with territory to which he had no legitimate claim . ’ |
| 3 | Lord Brougham held that a debtor should also still be imprisoned if he refused to pay what he owed when he could do so by executing a deed , or if he was culpably extravagant or reckless in contracting debts which he had no reasonable expectation of being able to pay . |
| 4 | So when he said murder , even that was not sure , but it was going to be a relief to be investigating a crime in which he had no personal connection and of which he could not be suspected . |
| 5 | It has even been known for an esteemed binder 's ticket to be transferred from a battered volume to a more handsome specimen with which he had no demonstrable connection . |
| 6 | When the 1976 championship year began for Hunt , he was driving a car with which he had no more than a nodding acquaintance . |
| 7 | By this I do not mean that he did no experiments , but that he explained his results by hypothesizing the existence of entities for which he had no direct evidence . |
| 8 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 9 | It is clear from s.1(2) that once deemed an insider , the individual can be held liable for dealings in the securities of companies with which he has no direct relationship . |
| 10 | The only sort of promotion that politicians really care about — to cabinet rank — went to John Redwood , the local-government minister and member for Wokingham , who has been bizarrely translated to Wales , a place for which he has no known affinity . |
| 11 | Exploiting Boniface 's injudicious move , Edward sought to rekindle popular support for his Scottish campaign by a debate in parliament on his and the papal claims , in the course of which he employed no little historical research to justify his own rights , to refute the pope 's , and to persuade the public of all this . |
| 12 | She kept looking at him , and he kept trying to hide what he felt , but when they danced together , holding each other , he kept wanting to stop and just stand there , mouth hanging open ; express through sheer immobility something he possessed no dynamic for , To touch her , hold her , smell her . |
| 13 | When he eventually turned eighteen his father told him he had no further objection to his being baptised , a decision based more on Rajiv 's co-operative attitude a year before than on his recent coming of age . |
| 14 | Never before had he been subjected to such a plethora of opinions — often form people with whom he had no real relationship , many of whom , bore him and his family substantial grudges . |
| 15 | Old Joseph retired to the seclusion of the Wallowa valley to escape the soldiers that marched through his country , but with whom he had no direct quarrel . |
| 16 | Sub-Prior Richard , a kindly soul even to those for whom he had no particular liking , grew anxious , and went to look for the stray , and found him on his bed in the dortoir , pallid and shivering , pleading sickness and looking pinched , grey and cold . |
| 17 | But equally , the buried incestuous temptation invoked by the seductive mother may result in the same man being profoundly moved and sexually attracted to distressed women for whom he has no emotional responsibility . |
| 18 | ( This applies only to the expert 's tortious liability to the party with whom he has no contractual relationship : see 14.11.2 . ) |