Example sentences of "[vb -s] no [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wording of the section contains no express limitation to documents which can be said to be part of a process of reconstituting the company 's state of knowledge . |
| 2 | Of course , it is quite possible to use in other positions an adjective that adds no fresh property to the entity to which it is applied , as in ( 14 ) ( ordinary predicative position ) and ( 15 ) ( predicate qualifier ) : ( 14 ) ( 15 ) However , failure to contribute a fresh property is not the essence of non-restriction . |
| 3 | Allowing for stations under construction but yet to be commissioned , the board needs no new plant to be in place until 1997 in this scenario for energy growth . |
| 4 | Milpitas , California-based Adaptec Inc says it has no immediate response to reports that competitor Distributed Processing Technology Inc , Maitland , Florida has slashed prices on its AT amd EISA disk controller boards : fear of a price war put Adaptec 's share price under pressure last week ; the company told Reuter ‘ Competitive pressure has always been there and we 'll respond as we always have ’ to it ; Adaptec 's manufacturing organisation could cut costs and pass the benefits onto its customers ; Distributed Processing is discounting its AT adaptors to $285 from $655 . |
| 5 | He has no legal rights to the property . |
| 6 | Each woman is mistress of her own fertility for which she alone is responsible : the community has no legal right to her progeny ; nor does her husband if they should divorce . |
| 7 | Answer guide : The point here is that the business has no legal right to the car at this point in time . |
| 8 | It has no present claim to fame and its longest guidebook entry are the words in Domesday . |
| 9 | The method is perfectly structured internally but has no necessary connection to anything outside itself ; there is no analytical purchase on it from without . |
| 10 | However , currently , unlike her husband she has no automatic rights to additional dependency benefits for her children and , unless her husband is incapable of paid employment , she gets no extra benefit for him either . |
| 11 | Many of us who represent the valleys would like the same amount of money to be spent on matters other than the bay , which has no God-given right to it . |
| 12 | In addition , because humanist psychological method has no uniform commitment to self-description and criticism , it depends , even more than traditional methods , on the individual psychologists practising it . |
| 13 | Such a tradition of behaviour ‘ is neither fixed nor finished ; it has no changeless centre to which understanding can anchor itself ; there is no sovereign purpose to be perceived or invariable direction to be detected ; there is no model to be copied , idea to be realised , or rule to be followed ’ . |
| 14 | Although the CGR has no formal commitment to undergraduate teaching the CGR accepts students studying towards higher degrees . |
| 15 | The verb metaphor is further characterized by the fact that it has no direct link to its proper term , but acts on the noun of which it is the predicate ; in the case of the transitive verb it can also act on its direct and indirect objects . |
| 16 | Since the discourse analyst , like the hearer , has no direct access to a speaker 's intended meaning in producing an utterance , he often has to rely on a process of inference to arrive at an interpretation for utterances or for the connections between utterances . |
| 17 | For the verbs which accompany clausal adjectives , however , there is no need for any compatibility at all ( although it may happen to occur if the verb also takes simple objects ) , since the noun phrase here has no direct relation to the verb which it follows but is simply one of the elements assembled within the opaque frontiers of the clause . |
| 18 | To say that a man frequents a particular address has no defamatory meaning to ordinary readers — unless they know that the address is a brothel . |
| 19 | Wanless is first to admit he has no quick antidote to the corrosive effect of falling asset values . |
| 20 | Prostitution is the hardest labour in the world , Dostoevsky thought , and Sonya of the yellow ticket who sells her body to buy her family 's bread has no loose-end aspect to her suffering . |
| 21 | Observe , for instance , the ungrammaticality of ( 2 ) , and , while ( 3 ) is acceptable , it is only acceptable with an interpretation that bears no systematic relation to the sentence in ( 1 ) : ( 2 ) *how does muzak drive them ? ( 3 ) how will the mixture turn the buttons ? |
| 22 | The twentieth century Christian-cum-romantic ideal of a sacramentally-based , freely-adopted , lifelong , exclusive , loving partnership between one man and one woman bears no great resemblance to reality even among those English-speaking peoples by whom it is held . |
| 23 | What this shows is that the physical absence or presence of the other party at the time of the transaction by itself bears no necessary relationship to the appropriateness of the transaction being investigated and made the subject of an order by an English court . |
| 24 | Issues are rarely debated , other than superficially during campaigns , and what the President proposes once he is in office bears no necessary relation to the platform on which he and his party ostensibly fought the campaign . |
| 25 | General Jaruzelski bears no obvious resemblance to the Third World autocrats discussed in the first two books . |
| 26 | There exists no easy guide to me Tolkien mythology , and the existing materials , when published , have required the extensive annotation of Tolkien 's son . |
| 27 | The Eden Vale to Bowyers group sees no immediate end to the recession . |
| 28 | The group sees no quick end to the high- street gloom . |
| 29 | Such questions are worth distinguishing , however , because there are moral philosophers today who think that Kant effectively answered the third correctly , but that he offers no sufficient answer to the second . |
| 30 | Instead , while literature " contributes no specific solution to the social problem it endows the mind with power and sanity " . |