Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Parts of the Chambers Street building are 130 years-old and we found that virtually no maintenance had been carried out . |
| 2 | On his death there were then no freehold estates to pass and therefore no liability to feudal dues . |
| 3 | Mr. Dear says that almost no action that could be registered and measured by Her Majesty 's inspector has yet been taken by the police committee . |
| 4 | I was injured and therefore no use to Jack — except to act as a beater ! |
| 5 | Saturday arrived but still no luggage . |
| 6 | A reply was received but again no luck . |
| 7 | It represented an open-ended public expenditure commitment with no way of imposing cash limits on the amount spent on prescribing and seemingly no way to check the number of people GPs referred to hospital . |
| 8 | ‘ It is well settled that certainly no person made responsible for a judicial decision can delegate his responsibility . |
| 9 | The lengthening day that pushes back your train Of clinging shadow , but keeps you here , has woken The seeds from the sleep they fell to when you went Down with them to darkness , the dread time When nothing could reach you , when you were hid away , And I retreated , sorrowing , hidden also ; And seed cast in the barren furrow rotted And trees withered and died ; and in the womb Of many a beast the embryo miscarried And then no germination ; and the earth sickened When in the womb of darkness you were stifled . |
| 10 | But according to Mary White from the Emigrant Advice Unit in Hamill Street , Belfast a worrying percentage still leave here with no job , no contacts , no place to stay and absolutely no idea of just how hard life in the big city can be . |
| 11 | There is thus no temptation resisted and therefore no virtue gained . |
| 12 | When the child takes the occasional mouthful she can smile and praise but otherwise no attention should be given to the food refusal . |
| 13 | Essentially , until the 1980s , central government had no final sanction over an individual local authority 's decision to spend and therefore no way , except persuasion or financial penalties , of achieving its objective . |
| 14 | Giving in to the inevitable , and until she had found out the truth she had as yet no quarrel with his mother , Ellie relaxed her rigid stance . |
| 15 | But the letter to Ritschl ( if we take it at face value , as we presumably should ) shows that Nietzsche had as yet no thought of basing a book on these subjects , although something pertinent to " Greek music drama " or " Socrates and tragedy " would , no doubt have been among the various matters envisaged for the miscellany in the " literary history or the " new ideas and views " . |
| 16 | Turning back to the local rag he learned that the police had as yet no clue to the identity of the woman whose body had been fished out of the canal . |
| 17 | So , in a case where the seller was to build a yacht for the buyer and they agreed that on payment of the first instalment the vessel and all materials used in its construction should become the absolute property of the buyer , the court held that nevertheless no property passed on payment of the first instalment because at that time the boat 's construction had not commenced and the materials to be used had not yet been identified , McDougall v. Aeromarine of Emsworth Ltd. ( 1958 Q.B. ) . |
| 18 | The exponential decay is regarded as the re-establishment of the normal differential rotation between the crust and the superfluid ; the two delayed spin-ups have as yet no explanation . |