Example sentences of "[verb] no [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The modest target posed no problems for the bubbling Pontblyddyn side as they stormed to a winning 67–3 in the 20th over , opener Mark Hughes ( 31 ) and Mark Williams ( 16 ) ensuring that shell-shocked Colwyn missed out on a zone semi-final .
2 A magistrate , who , as a member of a licensing court and court of appeal , had taken part in a decision to grant no certificates for the sale of spirits within the burgh , was held not to be thereby disqualified from trying one of the applicants affected by the decision for trafficking in spirits without a certificate : Gorman v. Wright , 1916 S.C .
3 Jaq had spied no absconders from the devastated city , the alternative to which was hardly inviting …
4 By the end of June , however , they had apparently won no concessions from the government .
5 The separatists had won no seats at the last elections , in 1986 .
6 We found no differences between the sexes , and age did not significantly influence the concentrations of laminin .
7 During formal testing we found no differences in the hormonal responses to hypoglycaemia or the subjective awareness or type of symptoms experienced during hypoglycaemia with the two human species .
8 We found no differences in the median cellular proportions of IgG subclasses between healthy and affected Crohn 's disease twins and in the separately analysed discordant twin pairs .
9 Two reports found no differences in the mean frequency of heartburn and regurgitation , and a higher prevalence of dysphagia in the Barrett 's group compared with reflux oesophagitis patients .
10 Rainbow peers , with some wariness , into her cup , seems relieved to find no faces in the froth , then scalds her mouth in an attempt to down it before any more visions appear .
11 Indycar racing holds no fears for the brave Brummie , even though it is a notorious killer with spectacular crashes in cars belting around oval tracks at 240mph .
12 But , as she demonstrated so memorably in last year 's auspicious Prom performance , it holds no terrors for the young soprano Galina Gorchakova , who gives a performance of thrilling virtuosity and commitment .
13 POST-mortems on two Romanian stowaways found dead in a container full of baskets after it entered the country through Felixstowe provided no clues to the cause of their deaths .
14 It provided no prescriptions for the substantive curriculum , except at the level of general aims , and these only by way of suggestion .
15 The person who wrote the computer program used to assist in the creation of the types of works described above has no rights in the work because , although the programmer may control or influence the format of the finished work , he has no control or influence on the content .
16 The second example has no joins in the outer skin , only a copper-silver alloy coating , indicating that it was plated with molten metal rather than foils .
17 But Cotton has no complaints about the order for England 's group matches .
18 But Cotton has no complaints about the order for England 's group matches .
19 With regard to flood defences , the Regional Council has no powers under the Coast Protection Act for this area .
20 The most primitive reptile skull has no openings in the side behind the eye socket ( like those in the tortoise and turtles ) .
21 Will the Prime Minister tell the House where my constituent Joanne , who is on a vocational course , receives £35 a week , lives on her own through no choice of her own , occasionally goes without food and sits in the dark because she has no coins for the meter , fits into his citizens charter and the classless society ?
22 He lives alone and has no relatives in the city .
23 Dr. Lamont writes that " Islay has no relics of the Palaeolithic age , but traces of Mesolithic settlement , principally of " kitchen middens " of small mobile communities , which are found in the vicinity of the 25 foot raised beaches " which were formed before 2500 BC when the sea was roughly at its present level , and says " It was , however , in the New Stone Age ( 2700–1300 BC ) that men took effective possession , pasturing their domestic herds , practising a simple agriculture , and interring their noble dead in impressive chambered cairns .
24 FUNNYMAN Steve Martin is fed up with people saying there 's something strange about his Hollywood house just because it has no windows at the front .
25 Lois Lane , manageress of the Fenham Fund , has no views about the general level of futures prices for the commodities she is considering trading , but does have a view about relative price movements , in that she expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures .
26 Diana , it seems , has no critics within the portals of San L 's , as the Sloanes call it , and it is little wonder that Prince Charles has never been seen descending its stairs .
27 This duck obviously has no objections to The Belfry 's greens .
28 ‘ Contemporary design ’ , the magazine 's editor regretted , ‘ because it has no roots in the vernacular idiom … will not appear immediately familiar ’ , whilst the ‘ mock-Tudor and the mock-Georgian styles which have been so prevalent — no matter how misguided in themselves — have sprung … from a genuine attempt to preserve a traditional atmosphere ’ .
29 Looking around I had to conclude that if the training has no roots in the ‘ real life ’ of school then the answer is bound to be — not very much .
30 Postgraduate degrees are not offered for performance , and the Faculty has no facilities for the teaching of performance .
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