Example sentences of "[adj] but [verb] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the early centuries of Aethis 's rule news of the founding of a new human empire reached Ulthuan but seemed no cause for concern . |
| 2 | The disabled stickers were clearly visible but made no difference . |
| 3 | The Swansea and Neath Society was founded in December 1822 but made no appeal through a public meeting until January 1826 ; the Manchester Society , although becoming active at the beginning of 1824 , issued no report to the public until March 1827 and had only had its first public meeting on 22 March 1826 . |
| 4 | I had been repelling all visitors with even the slightest suggestion of a cold but had no power over the internal workings of his cancer . |
| 5 | The pope was wrong ; the Curia was wrong ; Anselm 's judgement was right but had no authority ; the authority quoted by Ivo was certainly spurious , but it produced an acceptable result . |
| 6 | And Janet Ellis caused an outcry by announcing she was pregnant but had no intention of marrying the baby 's father . |
| 7 | Marley died in 1981 but left no will . |
| 8 | Mecdi , in his article on Molla Husrev , says that he went in 877/1472–3 but gives no indication of the date of his return . |
| 9 | The bad driver goes even faster but shows no acceleration sense and skids repeatedly . |
| 10 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 11 | He too was kind but stood no nonsense and had no problems with discipline . |
| 12 | ‘ The kids and the coaches are very keen but have no idea of the standard they have to achieve . |
| 13 | Kinship is binding and permanent but permits no choice of personnel , the individual must accept the relatives he has . |
| 14 | She paused , frightened but feeling no pain , then gasped and looked down with embarrassment . |
| 15 | She was naturally attractive but took no interest in her personal appearance . |