Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believe in God for wrong reasons or for no reason at all and you can not expect to be free from doubt . |
| 2 | ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice . |
| 3 | In the words of Roger of Howden , " the young King , of his own accord and under no compulsion , laying his hands on the Holy Gospels in the presence of a large crowd of clerks and laymen , swore that from that day onward and for the rest of his life he would be loyal to King Henry , his father and his lord , and would serve him faithfully . |
| 4 | When I passed at this point MacArthur said perhaps I would like to hear his summary as a soldier and as no businessman or textile expert . |
| 5 | But at no point in these years did the Armed Forces take the initiative in resolving political disputes and at no stage was it brought into intrigue by discontented Party factions ( exempting , of course , the First Secretary himself ) . |
| 6 | She had also said she would not be lonely and dull , but I knew she was ; far from shops and with no companionship but mine . |
| 7 | I retraced my steps but to no avail . |
| 8 | Molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics are also covered in this chapter but with no mention of the important new perturbation techniques aimed at estimating free energy differences . |
| 9 | I hope that this will clarify the situation for your readers while in no way putting them off the certified training scheme . |
| 10 | As this Report has noted , people of other faiths or of no faith , as well as Christians , are used by God to mediate his gift of music , and those who are not believers are as capable as those who are of responding to the power of religious music . |
| 11 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 12 | There is a second point stated to have been resolved , viz. : ‘ That payment of a lesser sum on the day can not be any satisfaction of the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum . ’ |
| 13 | That brought Nottingham within range and in no time they produced a broadside which knocked Northampton sideways . |
| 14 | At this time George was in educational work and with no parish responsibilities I somehow volunteered to make tea at a keep-fit class which the local W.I. wanted to start . |
| 15 | Doyle had taken over from an unsuccessful coach and in no time had turned everything round . |
| 16 | That nineteenth-century diplomatic services should have remained small and unambitious , confined until late in the century to traditional functions and with no desire to expand their horizons or the scope of their activities , is not surprising . |
| 17 | Our Booking Conditions have been formulated as a result of our responsibilities under law and in no way affect your statutory rights as a consumer . |
| 18 | ( 4 ) Subject to subsection ( 9 ) and ( 13 ) below , a licensing board shall consist of not less than one-quarter of the total number of members of the district or islands council and in no case shall consist of less than five such members . |
| 19 | Safer , cleaner and with no damage to the visual environment gas is brought to the nation 's customers quietly and efficiently . |
| 20 | Without a check and with no escapement , the hammer remains between its rest position and the string until the key is released . |
| 21 | I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell them that the funny-looking herb on the left of their kitchen garden was not really an obscure form of ivy and on no account must they attempt to smoke its leaves . |
| 22 | MANCHESTER UNITED supporters in middle-age and beyond no doubt heaved a great sigh of relief yesterday when something akin to reasonable order was restored at Old Trafford . |
| 23 | First news of the casualty came at 1700 on Wednesday 21 November 1990 when Great Yarmouth Coastguard informed Cromer that the 1,300-ton Stavroula , was aground on the Mid Haisbro Sand but in no danger . |
| 24 | Seiji Ozawa , a Karajan pupil , has reported how , as a teacher , Karajan would identify a point at issue but never proffer a solution , conforming to another fine adage of teaching : ‘ You may take the pupil to the window but on no account should you attempt to describe the view . ’ |
| 25 | A hastily assembled force of warriors was thrown into battle but to no avail . |
| 26 | There is an oscillation between light and darkness but no particular moment of time when day becomes night or night day ; as I walk across the landscape I may sometimes be on a hill top and sometimes in a valley bottom but at no point does the surface of the earth come to an end . |
| 27 | Mr. Beazley relied particularly on the Peters case , which he submitted shows that there does not have to be an actual contract in order to bring the case within article 5(1) ; but the relationship in that case between the association and its members was a consensual relationship which was manifestly very closely akin to an actual contract and in no way comparable , in my judgment , to the position here where there is no contract . |
| 28 | Alliums ( flowering onion ) such as Allium moly ( yellow ) , A. caeruleum ( purple ) and A. neapolitanum mother-of-pearl pink ) , planted singly or as mixed groups are true hardy garden gems and in no way resemble their culinary brothers and sisters . |
| 29 | Yo was left of centre but not militant ; in the dying moments of the Japanese administration he was invited to form a transitional administration and agreed to do so , on the basis of the release of political prisoners and of no interference with the organisation of workers , peasants , students and youths . |
| 30 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |