Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , a wide range of managerial decision making was subject to ministerial intervention , while over substantial areas of ‘ general ’ policy ministerial views made no significant impact . |
| 2 | These two groups shared no common thing except that they were all young boys . |
| 3 | Country Code Guard against all risk of fire Fasten all gates Keep dogs under close control Keep to public paths across farmland Use gates and styles to cross fences , hedges and walls Leave livestock , crops and machinery alone Take your litter home Help to keep all water clean Protect wildlife , plants and trees Take special care on country roads Make no unnecessary noise Enjoy the countryside and respect its life and work |
| 4 | This complexity explains why the system of concepts and of values has no direct relationship with the process of production ; the two do n't fit . |
| 5 | Prunella Scales has no special voice for children and reads Laura Cecil 's anthology of stories for young children , ‘ Listen To This ’ ( TS404 — one cassette ; 55 minutes ) , with her customary forthrightness and versatility . |
| 6 | Adjustment for these two characteristics revealed no strong relation between age and 2-year mortality : compared with the 18–44 year age group , there was no significantly higher mortality in the 45–64 year ( RR=0.84 , 95% CI 0.34 to 2.09 ) , the 65–74 year ( RR=1.28 , 95% CI 0.50 to 3.32 ) , and the 75–92 year ( RR=1.99 , 95% CI 0.72 to 5.46 ) ( overall p=0.4 ) age group during the 2 years after discharge . |
| 7 | The words make no classical sense , but they distil the essence of Justinian 's reforms , and they are the most fitting introduction to his books on legacies and trusts . |
| 8 | The picture of him as a gorilla was necessary on the leaflet because the words make no overt mention of his race . |
| 9 | The authors found no significant relation between child 's height and total parental smoking in the home in contrast to the previous conclusions drawn from the 1982 data . |
| 10 | Perhaps even more significant , well over half of the husbands played no direct part in caring . |
| 11 | Early pictures show no horizontal bars between the uprights on the gallery . |
| 12 | The job requires management and interpersonal skills , but until recently heads received no special training . |
| 13 | The birds that ate the new weights showed no ill effects . |
| 14 | Mice which had received material from the brains of the trained rats , Ungar claimed , also refused to enter the dark box , whereas animals which received materials from naïve animals showed no such inhibitions . |
| 15 | Whatever may have been the original rationale of this form of liability , it was certainly not the same as that of scienter , for agricultural animals present no peculiar risk . |
| 16 | The straight legs allow no flexible movement while the wide stance prevents the proper playing of short or full-pitch deliveries . |
| 17 | For word sequences having no complete parse then the probabilities of any partial phrases that had been generated were used . |
| 18 | Elementary education was characterised by the belief that schools needed no more teachers than there were classes . |
| 19 | But for all this fine façade , in private the ambitions of the Mughal Emperors knew no moral limitations : without scruple they would murder their brothers , poison their sisters or starve their fathers . |
| 20 | Tremayne with pursed lips offered no direct opinion . |
| 21 | As late as the 1850s local offices kept no regular accounts . |
| 22 | If we consider understanding of language to be essential for a well-grounded education , such developments should be encouraged , especially when schools do no explicit teaching of basic ideas about language . |
| 23 | At the moment there is vigorous theoretical argument among people who study animal signals , with some taking the extreme position that signals carry no accurate information about the state of the signaller and others arguing that the signals are extremely reliable . |
| 24 | The staff representatives here as at other levels of the machinery must be members of the signatories to the 1956 agreement , that is NUR , ASLEF and TSSA ; union branches play no formal part in the LDCs , but in practice there are often close informal ties and overlapping membership ( Edwards and Lloyd 1981 ) . |
| 25 | Less work has been done with animal models , but recent work from India has shown that some homoeopathic remedies in various potencies displayed anti-viral activity in developing chick embryos , whereas other remedies had no anti-viral effect in mice . |
| 26 | We must allow ourselves time to grieve for the past but the guards had no such time . |
| 27 | Dentists had no financial incentive to extract teeth , he said . |
| 28 | Parliament was an assembly over which the clergy had no theoretical control , however much weight they might wield within it in practice ; convocation was a provincial — not a national assembly , and , though often summoned on the king 's nod , it met by , and laid down , its own procedures and determined its own composition . |
| 29 | The political situation in Germany before 1914 , in which parties had no direct role in the formation of the Imperial Government , which functioned independently of them , meant that the SPD had no reason to think of its activities mainly in parliamentary terms . |
| 30 | Cade and his supporters had no constructive programme for social reform , and appeared to be unconcerned about questions of servile status or land rents . |