Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | From this it would follow that the principle of organic unities has no clear meaning . |
| 4 | According to this view the grammatical difference between nouns and adjectives marks no real difference between things and their properties : a material thing , a substance , is no more than ‘ a bundle ’ of properties . |
| 5 | If the food-crisis peaks of 1795 , 1800 – 1 and 1812 – 13 are disregarded — for it can be firmly concluded that in those years , as in 1739 – 40 and 1766 – 7 , the living standards of wage-earners must have been substantially , though temporarily , reduced — then the general real-wage trend of the war years suggests no marked movement either way . |
| 6 | Breaking up large firms plays no significant part in UK competition policy although in the US the telecommunications company AT & T was split up into regional competitors . |
| 7 | Multiplication of decimals needs no new rules , but take extra care with place values . |
| 8 | Today 's wave of experiments has no such rulebook : anybody with a good idea can try it out , and perhaps strike gold . |
| 9 | The idea that children belong to their parents like other possessions over which [ the parents ] may experience exclusive rights has no factual foundation and should be rejected ; children are only on temporary loan to their parents . |
| 10 | ‘ To argue that workers displaced by machines should necessarily be able to find work building those machines makes no more sense than to expect the horses displaced by mechanical vehicles to have been employed , directly or indirectly , in various branches of the expanding automotive industry , ’ says Leontief ( 1978 ) . |
| 11 | In free fall with Cartesian coordinates has no off-diagonal elements and hence the fluid has no viscosity or thermal conductivity ; it is an ideal fluid . |
| 12 | Pons ' list of publications shows no direct overlap with , or preparation for , the test-tube fusion programme . |
| 13 | In this age group , the long-term rising trend in casualties to infants both as pedestrians and passengers shows no significant downturn . |
| 14 | One of these departments has no online service itself and therefore makes infrequent use of its library 's services . |
| 15 | Instead of devoting more time and money to the inherently unlikely possibility that this organism alone among replicating particles contains no nucleic acids , researchers should concentrate on cracking its tough proteinaceous capsule . |
| 16 | The court denied the motion based on its finding that Unix Labs has no valid copyright on 32V Unix , an early 1978 version of the software from which the University of California at Berkeley 's Networking Release 2 code is derived . |
| 17 | ‘ Even if such measures are painful and certainly should not be the only way to cut costs , an analysis of the present economic situation in our most important markets leaves no other choice , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Unlike plosive , the release stage of affricates can never be omitted , eg which chairs contains no unexploded allophone as does bad dog . |
| 19 | However , it is generally the case that violence against women provokes no strong emotion in policemen . |
| 20 | Presenting a model of these factors gives no prescriptive power over the language analysis in BSL or speech , but it is a framework whereby we can see separate elements in the task . |
| 21 | But the identification of the criteria poses no lesser problems than the identification of what the criteria are for . |
| 22 | It should be stressed at the outset that maintaining that large companies are social enterprises involves no necessary finding that the root principle beneath the current rules of company law , that companies exist to make profits for the benefit of shareholders , is unsatisfactory . |
| 23 | A set of dogmas borrowed from Paris in the 1960s and earnestly debated in international conferences has no national existence , and seeks none . |