Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , in the context of statutory demands I see no compelling need to give a more extended meaning to the word ‘ action . ’ |
| 2 | Every culture will organise the world according to its own perceptions of reality ; thus one language may have words which have no equivalent concept in another . |
| 3 | Those who throw sticks and stones which break bones can be better off in law than those who project hurtful words which leave no permanent mark . |
| 4 | The basic rationale for such courses derives from the discipline itself , and can be seen in its pure form in disciplines which have no obvious employment destination , such as philosophy or history . |
| 5 | The function of the leave requirement is not spelled out in Order 53 , but it is designed to weed out cases which have no real chance of success or which might be called ‘ frivolous ’ or ‘ vexatious ’ in the sense of being brought not out of a genuine interest in the outcome but for some ulterior motive such as to make things difficult for a government agency . |
| 6 | If " adornment " is to be identified in linguistic patterns which have no semantic utility , we can point to the alliterations clustered in the last few lines . |
| 7 | A disposal assignment may involve a considerable number of approaches to entities which have no previous association with KPMG . |
| 8 | While fuel duties are by far the most attractive tax and are virtually impossible to avoid , they fail to discriminate between casual users , such as city centre dwellers , and essential users , such as country dwellers who have no alternative means of transport . |
| 9 | I see women as closer to the tragic than men because of the frailty of their expectations which have no solid foundation in the world . |
| 10 | And you might well argue of course that if you are subsidizing films which have no cultural merit or whatever then why we are doing this and that , that would be a question to ask . |
| 11 | The three other sonnets which present no personal relationships are all generalizations about love . |
| 12 | Third , that certain factors in avant-garde culture , and especially the conscious breaks from ‘ traditional ’ styles , have to be analysed not only in formal terms but within the sociology of metropolitan encounters and associations between immigrants who share no common language but that of the metropolis and whose other ( including visual ) received sign-systems have become distanced or irrelevant . |
| 13 | Everyone , especially London classes who have no particular stall , is asked to help as much as they possibly can to fill the stalls , not only the one with which their area is associated . |
| 14 | For three weeks we have no proper political events , of the sort that would earn a place on a news programme under normal circumstances . |
| 15 | ‘ He asks you questions which have no real answer . |
| 16 | Again , while distraction can cause forgetting during the day , this is normally confined to very recent memories which have no obvious meaning ( such as unfamiliar telephone numbers that have just been looked up ) . |
| 17 | Er however people are y'know are also reinforced by things which have no direct value . |
| 18 | First , in the case of agencies which have no central recording systems containing details of their drug-using clients — GPs , social services , and the probation service — a postal questionnaire survey of all professionals operating in the Wirral branches of these services was conducted . |
| 19 | So it began to be asserted that this was a social service , and that there was something inherently reasonable and even laudable about subsidising the price of rented house-room — though how it could be reasonable or laudable to reduce by arbitrary and locally varying amounts the rents of an arbitrarily selected minority of families who have no common economic or other characteristic , is something which no one to this day has attempted to explain . |
| 20 | But even writers who have no historical sense , like Mrs Radcliffe ( who provides Emily in 1584 with what is clearly a cottage ornee , complete with greenhouse , ‘ two excellent sitting rooms ’ and a rustic hall ) , are much more observant than their predecessors of different types of houses in the landscape . |
| 21 | As Packer ( 1968 ) has pointed out , the criminality of their enterprise acts as a kind of ‘ tariff ’ that protects them from the competition of ‘ legitimate ’ entrepreneurs unwilling to take the risks of illegal enterprise , and provides them with customers who have no legal redress against the most excessive forms of exploitation . |
| 22 | As Wood and Wood comment , ‘ relating ideas to their social context ’ far from ‘ depriving them of their universal meaning ’ in fact ‘ rescues them from the emptiness of ethereal abstractions which have no human meaning at all ’ ( ibid. p. x ) . |
| 23 | When we deal with semantic categories , we find that occurrences cut across grammatical categories : for example , the concept of " negation " can include not only the negative particle not , but other word classes such as pronouns ( nothing , nobody ) and adverbs ( nowhere , never ) , and even items which have no morphological resemblance to these , such as unfinished , impossible , false , hardly . |
| 24 | Thus a model can be entirely abstract using symbols which have no pictorial quality as in the use of language and mathematics . |
| 25 | Jones loves himself , blames himself , is his own severest critic , is conscious of what he is doing , etc. are all examples of reflexive relations which have no pluralist import . |
| 26 | This is mainly because they are long stay hospital patients who have no informal carers , who have no communities to return to initially . |
| 27 | 1 Disjoint sets which have no common elements , 2 overlapping or intersecting sets with common elements , 3 one set completely inside the other . |
| 28 | In short , such propositions are not susceptible to a kind of analysis that might be applied , for example , to universal propositions which have no existential import . |
| 29 | What other calling would employ teachers who have no professional experience of the subjects which they teach ? |
| 30 | What other calling would employ teachers who have no professional experience of the subjects they teach ? |