Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the perspective of this book , the contrast with traditional dialectological method , and with data-gathering in orthodox historical linguistics , is clear and requires no further comment . |
| 2 | Yet again , the idea is that once created the watch is self-sufficient and requires no further help from its divine craftsperson . |
| 3 | Polsby argues that the pluralist approach is more rigorous and makes no such a priori assumptions about the distribution of power in urban political , systems . |
| 4 | The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US . |
| 5 | He looked slightly embarrassed and made no answering comment . |
| 6 | They are monuments dedicated to suffering ; they are never triumphalist and have no victorious character . |
| 7 | Mr Doe insists that he is no opponent of privatisation as such and has no political axe to grind : ‘ I 'm not concerned who owns BR as such : there could be advantages in taking BR out of the public sector in terms of investment rules ’ , he said . |
| 8 | The strawberry , plum , peach , black cherry and apricot jams are said to have a high fruit content and contain no artificial colours or preservatives . |
| 9 | On the domestic front I was less fortunate and had no great success with house hunting . |
| 10 | It 's completely sugar-free and contains no artificial colours or flavours . |
| 11 | The black parents are often apathetic and perform no positive function in their children 's progression in sport and stir from their inertness only when some measure of tangible success has been achieved . |
| 12 | I was ignorant and had no worldly experience in those days . |
| 13 | Yet , the importance of this kind of knowledge is in principle self-evident and requires no lengthy argument . |
| 14 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 15 | To argue that it is computer-generated and has no human author runs counter to common sense . |
| 16 | There was n't a murmur of disapproval from the drug testers — all the ingredients were natural and contained no chemical stimulants . |
| 17 | just as effective and contains no hazardous ingredients . |
| 18 | He wanted equality and freedom for all and believed no other country had the right to rule it . |
| 19 | In the capitalist mode of production , however , the workers are landless and have no independent means of subsistence . |
| 20 | Thomas himself left the Company in 1916 and took no further part in the matter . |
| 21 | The dance is a comic interlude , quite short and making no great demands on technique . |
| 22 | Agreements not infrequently will provide that the mere fact of the presentation of a petition for a bankruptcy order by a creditor , or a partner applying for an interim order under s253 of the Insolvency Act 1986 , or a partner entering into a compromise for the benefit of his creditors generally , or even the circumstance of a partner being unable and having no reasonable prospect of being able to pay his debts , should make the power exercisable . |
| 23 | So in some areas the Commission has only issued a recommendation or communication , which are merely persuasive and have no legal effect , such as in the area of social protection , child care , minimum income and persons living in frontier regions . |
| 24 | These random movements in aggregate demand are of course unpredictable and exhibit no clear pattern . |
| 25 | The pygmy hog weighs no more than 10kg , is about half a metre long , is grey-brown and bristly and has no facial warts . |
| 26 | And if the infrastructure of schools , health centres , roads and irrigation is to be created , governments will often need to borrow ; such investments are long-term and yield no direct cash returns , so private lenders are unlikely to be keen . |
| 27 | They are thus trivial and provide no chemical information about the element ( see table 4.6 ) . |
| 28 | Now twenty-eight , one year younger than Carrie Bradley , the young Irish lady was still single and had no urgent desire to wed , although her pale beauty could turn many a young man 's head . |
| 29 | The side kick delivered from the back foot is comparatively slow and does no more than a good front kick . |
| 30 | This selection is not difficult and requires no academic training . |