Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [verb] no " in BNC.

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No Sentence
1 It was an essential element of the cause of action in such circumstances that the governmental plaintiff establish that the public interest would suffer detriment in the absence of a remedy ; ( 9 ) in failing to have proper regard to the legislative purpose of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 by which Parliament could not have intended to authorise a local authority to bring libel proceedings , a fortiori where it had suffered no actual financial loss ; ( 10 ) having regard to the scale of costs likely to be incurred it could never be in the interests of the inhabitants of the area for the local authority to mount an action for libel in such circumstances , and certainly was not in their interests in the present case where no injury was alleged to the superannuation fund .
2 If it had happened no doubt he would have done . ’
3 For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century .
4 At the moment it was the traditional tale of going up to Jackson 's at 10 in the morning after an all-night session at Dobell 's — wine we drank in those days , Poppet , wine that was wine not this filthy MUCK — and demanding double portions of oysters all round and when it came to pay no one had a penny , so Dobell , who even then still had the charm of a boy of twenty , and a slim waist to go with it , said he would bring in one of the engravings from his collection , and Gaston , who always recognised a gentleman — not like the CLODS who run hostelries nowadays — with tears in his eyes said it was an honour , an honour to serve Mr Dobell and his friends .
5 There 's something new in the nest said the snow bright polar bear , I saw its shadow on a glacier as it had left no paw marks there .
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