Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] no [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 2 | First , in some areas of activity there may be no competition , or even no potential competition . |
| 3 | Mann , the leader of the new grouping , said that henceforth no Akali Dal would be known after any individual and that " now our aim is one , the right of self-determination for Sikhs " . |
| 4 | The biggest irony of all is that probably no single factor proved more damaging than the contribution of the man who we were told was so universally respected and popular that , if he had been Labour leader instead of Neil Kinnock , Labour 's lead in the polls would have been 49 to 33 . |
| 5 | Against this background , it is striking that almost no basic research into contemporary Vietnamese society is occurring . |
| 6 | With Gide and many others in mind , Said observes that virtually no European writer who wrote on or travelled to the Orient in the period after 1800 exempted himself or herself from a quest for sexual experience unobtainable in Europe : |
| 7 | On the question of training , a survey by the International Labour Organisation found that virtually no European country had a training policy focused on older workers . |
| 8 | In year 5 , demand levels off at 3,500 units — the firm , though , already has the thirty-five machines necessary to meet this demand and so no new investment is necessary . . |
| 9 | It is at least arguable that this is not the case as the consideration for the allotment of the shares ( which are expressed to be credited as fully paid ) must be the transfer of the shares in the target , because that is the only consideration which the offeror receives under the arrangement ( apart from the merchant bank 's commitment to pay cash to accepting shareholders , but that is cancelled by the offeror 's commensurate obligation to procure accepting shareholders to authorise the offeror to allot the consideration shares to the merchant bank or as it directs , and so no net benefit flows to the offeror ) . |
| 10 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 11 | Traditional engineering is pluralistic , systems engineering will be no different , and so no single approach can hope to support all aspects of system construction . |
| 12 | All sorts and conditions of native societies were declared to be suitable candidates for it , even when they possessed , to Western eyes , no discernible political organization at all , and so no evident agency through which indirection might be achieved . |
| 13 | There may well be long stretches of time in which no ‘ progress ’ in the arms race , and perhaps no evolutionary change at all , takes place . |
| 14 | There are two sides to every story , of course , and obviously no supervisory officer was likely to admit that he had participated in an attack upon the position of burgh politicians known to be in the interest of the Administration . |
| 15 | No other creature possesses this akashic integration at a mind level and thus no other creature has anything barely resembling our human kind of language structure . |
| 16 | With no shell and thus no firm base on which to attach a muscle and nothing rigid to serve as a lever , these larvae are indifferent movers . |
| 17 | Some sources have stated that sufficient non-associated gas will be available by 1986 to supply all Saudi Arabia 's gas needs even if there were no oil production ( and thus no associated gas ) . |
| 18 | Therefore , though the high density of Mercury suggested it might well have an iron core , Mercury was known to spin slowly and its large surface area to mass ratio indicated that its interior was cool enough for most or all of any core to be solid , and thus no detectable dipole field was expected . |
| 19 | Devlin , he suggests , provides no evidence with which to support the statement , and further no reputable historian has argued that deviation from sexual morality could be seen , like an act of treason , as threatening society 's existence . |
| 20 | As expected , having had both a spell of registered unemployment in the last 12 months and also no full time job in the last 12 months contributes adversely to the individual 's chances of obtaining an offer . |
| 21 | The fact that they also occur in Algeria and Tunisia , for example , implies similar depositional environments and probably no great separation . |
| 22 | A week or so ago I heard — others may have done so , too — Lord Cockfield assert that ’ the British people had no moral right and probably no legal right ’ to resist the demands of a federal Europe . |
| 23 | As a result there is no net space charge and hence no electric field . |
| 24 | But if so ; if there are no " irreducibly existential " propositions , then there are no " irreducibly existential " facts ; and hence no metaphysical problem of " being qua being " either . |
| 25 | In matriarchal societies there was no sexual misery for the youth , and often no anal phase in between the oral and phallic phases . |
| 26 | You may find yourself in a situation where there is no language school , no textbook , and even no written form of the language . |
| 27 | Mr Whitnall reported teaching staff ‘ dismayed ’ by the service from the trade , with titles hard to identify and evaluate and frequently no obvious source of supply for students if texts were recommended . |
| 28 | And sometimes no specific cause can be found at all . |
| 29 | She had no senior heavyweight figure like Cherwell or Swinton to advise her , and indeed no close colleague at all . |
| 30 | The campaign provoked great interest and virtually no adverse comment . |