Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believe in God for wrong reasons or for no reason at all and you can not expect to be free from doubt . |
| 2 | But at no point in these years did the Armed Forces take the initiative in resolving political disputes and at no stage was it brought into intrigue by discontented Party factions ( exempting , of course , the First Secretary himself ) . |
| 3 | She had also said she would not be lonely and dull , but I knew she was ; far from shops and with no companionship but mine . |
| 4 | I retraced my steps but to no avail . |
| 5 | I hope that this will clarify the situation for your readers while in no way putting them off the certified training scheme . |
| 6 | As this Report has noted , people of other faiths or of no faith , as well as Christians , are used by God to mediate his gift of music , and those who are not believers are as capable as those who are of responding to the power of religious music . |
| 7 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 8 | There is a second point stated to have been resolved , viz. : ‘ That payment of a lesser sum on the day can not be any satisfaction of the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum . ’ |
| 9 | That nineteenth-century diplomatic services should have remained small and unambitious , confined until late in the century to traditional functions and with no desire to expand their horizons or the scope of their activities , is not surprising . |
| 10 | Alliums ( flowering onion ) such as Allium moly ( yellow ) , A. caeruleum ( purple ) and A. neapolitanum mother-of-pearl pink ) , planted singly or as mixed groups are true hardy garden gems and in no way resemble their culinary brothers and sisters . |
| 11 | Yo was left of centre but not militant ; in the dying moments of the Japanese administration he was invited to form a transitional administration and agreed to do so , on the basis of the release of political prisoners and of no interference with the organisation of workers , peasants , students and youths . |
| 12 | How can people be expected to submit detailed applications when , for a variety of social reasons and through no fault of their own , they do not have the wherewithal , information and literacy to express themselves ? |
| 13 | My grandparents ' village was a small place off the main road , away from busy roads and with no mains services . |
| 14 | Both treatments will provide no more than outlines and in no way can be regarded as exhaustive . |
| 15 | Mexico agreed , however , to allow US and Canadian companies access to 50 per cent of PEMEX and Federal Electricity Commission procurement in the first year , rising to 70 per cent over eight years and with no reservation after 10 years . |
| 16 | This lasted for some weeks but at no time was the baby at risk either physically or psychologically nor was the mother and baby bond threatened . |
| 17 | Are there any good books on the subject , I have searched several good bookshops but to no avail ‘ Please help ’ . |
| 18 | We made further searches but to no avail . |
| 19 | It may be tempting to go into schemes that promise a way out of difficulties but on no account apply your all-or-nothing approach to financial risks . |
| 20 | He arrived at a town surrounded by icebergs and with no road out . |
| 21 | A couple of Frenchmen last season were the latest to try and rearrange the Probyn features but to no avail . |
| 22 | The American narrowed the gap over the closing metres but to no avail , for Ben Johnson was making world history this day with a phenomenal new world record . |
| 23 | The recent Beethoven Fifth Symphony in Berlin had massively sustained tone in the fermatas but with no loss of forward impetus in the playing . |
| 24 | Fell he was and many were his victories but to no avail . |
| 25 | Immediately dominated by the teacher unions , who were committed to the maintenance of teacher autonomy , the Council soon came to view its tasks as increasing the range of choice available to teachers but in no way prescribing what and how they taught . |
| 26 | There was little structure to the market , Welsh Lamb Enterprise was seeking new markets but with no control over supplies , producer groups were operating mainly as dealers , and producers got neither the information they needed nor the returns . |
| 27 | I 've had men go through the registers but with no success . |
| 28 | This author worked with one teacher who was plunged into a viewdata exercise with 12 pupils and four microcomputers but with no knowledge of the software . |
| 29 | However , Jones claimed to see only neutrons , and a few of those only at levels that might be interesting to science and geophysicists but of no relevance to making commercial fusion reactors . ’ |
| 30 | The following is a very brief description of the Scheme 's rules as they apply to fixed term appointees and in no way overrides the authoritative rules , a copy of which may be obtained from Personnel Services Division when you take up appointment . |