Example sentences of "[verb] have no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She has had no real contact since but occasionally rings up Mr Smith and Andrew to enquire how her ‘ bairn ’ is getting on .
2 She has had no real contact since but occasionally rings up Mr Smith and Andrew to enquire how her ‘ bairn ’ is getting on .
3 ‘ I am assured by Mr Mates that he has had no financial involvement with Mr Nadir , nor with any of his companies or with his advisers , either before he became a minister or since , ’ said Mr Major .
4 A couple of years ago he made Local Stigmatic , a version of a 1956 Heathcote Williams play that has had no official theatre release .
5 Thus , although the Labour movement has had no great success in squeezing the capitalists until the pips squeak , its leaders can point to a variety of real improvements in the living standards of the working class as good reason for continued support for their moderating policy .
6 As Brian Masters stated succinctly , ‘ the generation of the sixties inherited such a[n] [ established moral ] code and rejected it ; that of the eighties has had no firm code to inherit ’ .
7 We find today that , on the whole , universal provision has had no such effect .
8 Argentina has recently been paying the banks $40m a month ( equivalent to three days of the monthly amount due ) , but has had no formal discussions with its banks about a rescheduling .
9 Although she has had no formal training , Jenny does have a great talent .
10 He recovered promptly and has had no further problems 30 months after transplantation .
11 The patient has had no further problems from perineal disease during the subsequent 17 months to date .
12 She has had no further problems and is recovering from her operation well .
13 The company has had no further involvement in the project since September 1989 . ’
14 The excellent , practical hunter who has had no further lessons in hunting-wizardry than his introductory ones as a teenager is said to know little about hunting .
15 Such statements may be based on strong conviction and close observation , and may even be felt to be self-evident , but they appear to have no empirical status — are merely , we might say , guesses — unless supported by frequency data .
16 ‘ A lot of people are fed up with a whole range of changes which appear to have no philosophical direction to them , ’ he said .
17 As Buxbaum suggests , ‘ [ s ] ince takeovers appear to have no systematic impact on weak management or suboptimal resource use … takeover threats can not affect management behaviour except in an inconsistent manner .
18 Despite the undeniable interest and importance of semantic and statistical studies of language , they appear to have no direct relevance to the problem of determining or characterising the set of grammatical utterances .
19 The evidence available shows that school provision could have a marked impact on the way in which special needs arise , and can be met ; yet schools appear to have no clear view on what provision is the most effective .
20 They look rather like elongated jellyfish and appear to have no structural virtues .
21 These can be substantial — one , at least , reaches over a million entries — but — they appear to have no obvious advantage over the databases described above , except , perhaps , when they afford the prospect of immediate supply from stock of titles held in their files .
22 The administrative organs of an international organisation must be able to bring the requirements of the treaty to the attention of the member States , but if the members persist in their action , appear to have no further recourse .
23 Human intelligence , by its very nature , never fully accepts statements that appear to have no plausible foundation .
24 As in the report by Reznikoff et al , all the type I foci in this study had a non-tumorigenic character in vivo and were considered to have no transforming response .
25 He 'd had no such doubts when embracing that model Keeley had brought home from the Art School .
26 Mercer Lorrimore in his turn and with a smile said his horse was called Voting Right , and no , he 'd had no advance notice of any attack .
27 Perhaps he 'd had no real intention of stuffing her up her back passage .
28 Finding herself passing Tony 's lodgings one evening when they 'd had no pre-arranged date , she had decided on impulse to drop in and surprise him .
29 For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition .
30 A very old friend of the family wrote to me when each of my parents died , and from her I had learnt that Sarah had decided to have no more children after Emma , and that Emma had gone to medical school so she is presumably now a doctor somewhere .
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