Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They may have received some college training , participated in in-service training provided by government agencies or employers , or received no specific training for their jobs .
2 A report was dropped from further analysis if the study did not include concurrent controls or contained no original data or if the report did not address mortality , respiratory disease , or diarrhoea .
3 It was a standard opening — the kind of play that made no real difference to the final outcome — yet somehow the boy made it seem a challenge .
4 They blocked efficient economic combinations that posed no competitive risk to anyone , except the merging parties ' slower-footed rivals .
5 Was it credible that Elise should have a car accident that involved no other vehicle , no jay-walking pedestrian , no treacherous roads ?
6 This trend was confirmed by a report published by the URA in 1985 that found no low income homebuyers moving into the area during the Programme period .
7 The last of these produced negative rather than positive transfer but , in that study , the shift was from a very difficult successive task to a simultaneous discrimination , and comparison was made with a control group that received no prior training .
8 Some used this expertise to work in the private sector as consultants advising on urban policy ; in one case a firm that employed no Black people was selected for its ‘ inner city expertise ’ to evaluate the Handsworth Task Force in inner Birmingham which it had previously also been paid to advise but which was now being shut down to make room for a newly fashionable Urban Development Corporation , this time in the Birmingham Heartlands ( sic ) .
9 The philosophy of the assembly line was to break down the work into simple elements that required no special training .
10 He gave her a look that brooked no further arguments .
11 Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job .
12 A love that left no gentle wish to true
13 I have met many of them at my advice surgery , and I will weep no tears over the demise of a tax that had no progressive element and which sometimes militated against people on low incomes .
14 Production was now centralized at Pinewood Studios , with Davis 's former personal assistant Earl St John , a one-time exhibitor , put in charge of making ‘ inexpensive films without artistic pretensions , films that had no other object than to provide good family entertainment and show a profit . ’
15 And to do so would produce an unhistorical abstraction that had no concrete usefulness .
16 He dismissed the adaptive scenarios postulated by the Darwinians as ‘ just so stories ’ that had no scientific value .
17 ‘ Mother Machree ’ and even if everyone hated to admit it to his face , Father Mooney sang it well , considering he was a man that had no formal training at Ingham 's .
18 There were , of course , many tribes in the Midlands and south-west that had no direct contact with Caesar and this also applies to the Atrebates and the Regini on the south coast of modern Sussex and Hampshire .
19 Once goods had been brought to a European port , they could be re-exported at a higher price to other European countries that had no direct trade across the sea , so a good many of the calculations about trade were concerned with re-exporting goods which had not been processed into an improved form but were simply being sent to a place where they commanded some additional scarcity value .
20 For Michael Codron , it marked the start of an outstanding production career — which had seemed to bode so ill for him during the run of The Wit To Woo , a play that had no happier associations for him than it had for Ken .
21 As to the wider dissemination of culture , the few cells that had been active in this respect seemed to equate success with the regular dispatch of newspapers and made no personal contacts to follow this up .
22 When they stepped out on to the track some twenty paces from him he only turned his head slowly to glance at them and made no other movement .
23 The committee recognised that both ‘ f ’ and ‘ ph ’ spellings were widely used in English texts and made no specific recommendation .
24 When I married , I left behind the few friends of my childhood , and made no lasting friends in London .
25 The third congress of journalists which met at the end of January simply stressed the importance of party leadership of the press and made no practical survey of what was actually happening .
26 ‘ Thomas , Thomas , ’ Gwendolen moaned quietly to herself , and made no further bid for the limelight .
27 He looked slightly embarrassed and made no answering comment .
28 Thus Northern Ireland enjoyed the same standard of services and endured no greater taxation than the rest of the UK .
29 They felt no grief and experienced no real sense of loss .
30 The journalists asked a few questions and got no real answers and the old Monsieur le Président , who had presided so long in his own way at the top , shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room .
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