Example sentences of "[verb] have no [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Although she has had no formal training , Jenny does have a great talent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of people are fed up with a whole range of changes which appear to have no philosophical direction to them , ’ he said . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Human intelligence , by its very nature , never fully accepts statements that appear to have no plausible foundation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps he 'd had no real intention of stuffing her up her back passage . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | William seemed to have no other source of income at present . |
| 21 | The first sign that something was happening came when the interminable drumming from the countryside began to break up into two distinct and separate cadences , one deep and threatening , the other a nerve-jangling collection of notes that seemed to have no coherent structure , but somehow managed to sound rhythmic . |
| 22 | In summary , acute cigarette smoking caused a significant fall in Vg but seemed to have no significant effect upon transpyloric fluid shifts . |
| 23 | The existence of a neurological deficit was also shown to have no significant effect on basal UOS pressure . |
| 24 | There was no clear relationship between the severity of portal hypertension and the prevalence of haemorrhoids , which have previously been shown to have no direct communication with the portal vein . |
| 25 | Some analysts are puzzled at Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's planned $500m-plus fund-raising exercise ( see page seven ) , Reuter reports from Milan , because despite all its other problems , the company was thought to have no short-term liquidity problems — net debt is relatively low and the balance sheet is supposed to be healthy . |
| 26 | In the Aube département between Bar-sur-Aube and Bar-sur-Seine , the patches of vine are even more scattered and , although the best sites face south-east , most seem to have no general trend of aspect . |
| 27 | Elsewhere he remarks , " we seem to have no other criterion for truth and reason than the type and kind of opinions and customs current in the land where we live . |
| 28 | Indeed , some verbs seem to have no lexical content beyond one which is aimed at providing some kind of reservation about applicability of the adjectival property , examples being become and turn which place a temporal restriction on the adjective 's applicability ; the subordinate property only holds after the time indicated by the tense of the verb . |
| 29 | Clive Wearing has no short-term memory , the result of a virus which attacked his brain , and he needs twenty-four-hour care and attention . |
| 30 | For the few months before the Gulf crisis , the political world dissolved and what existed had no clear shape ; its familiar forms — the nations and empires — had no clear trajectory . |