Example sentences of "[noun] have had no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Paul Fisher exclaimed as she went quickly past him , but his ‘ wow ’ meant nothing to her other than that , unfortunately , his carpeting of a week last Friday had had no lasting effect . |
2 | Jake had had no real friends except Ben ; he had often been at the house in those old days , never saying much , but good at mending broken toys and constructing dolls out of handkerchiefs and folded paper . |
3 | The file hat shown that Miss Tuckey had had no official connection with the Intelligence Service since turning town a bedroom job there in 1946 , the year Marriage himself had joined them . |
4 | The Court of Appeal upheld the defendant 's conviction because there was ample evidence that a purchaser would understand the description ‘ new ’ to indicate that the vehicle had had no previous owner and no previous registered keeper . |
5 | Where the Bill has been before a standing committee , so that Members not on the committee have had no previous opportunity to speak on the minutiae of the Bill , there is now an opportunity for them to make their points . |
6 | If the teacher had had no obvious part in planning or organising an activity , it was difficult to see what might be learnt from it that would be of help to other teachers . |
7 | Young lads who up to this point have had no real demands made on them by society , who have been spoiled and indulged by their mothers , who have followed their own inclinations entirely and have been tolerated in nearly everything , suddenly and incomprehensibly find that they are the subjects of a spiteful atrocity in which they are abused , assaulted , victimized , mutilated and sometimes threatened with death itself . |
8 | 390 the wife had had no independent advice but she did , as the jury found , understood what she was doing . |
9 | For too long managers have had no authoritative body to express their views or air their grievances . |
10 | Thus , although the Labour movement has had no great success in squeezing the capitalists until the pips squeak , its leaders can point to a variety of real improvements in the living standards of the working class as good reason for continued support for their moderating policy . |
11 | A recurring complaint was that the letter was from someone with whom wholesalers had had no previous contact . |
12 | In fact , the Government have had no industrial policy since being elected in 1979 . |
13 | Communitarian concepts of organization have had no locational monopoly within the imagination of reformers of a ‘ left ’ persuasion . |
14 | The majority of players on both sides have had no competitive cricket since the World Cup . |
15 | The USA had had no diplomatic relations with Libya since 1981 , and had suspended commercial ties in 1986 . |
16 | As these letters have had no discernible effect and The Awesome Three boys are still enjoying the odd night tying up white-clad virgins and offering them up to the Devil , the incensed mothers have now taken to writing to the band 's parents . |
17 | Lucien had had no social contact with Resenence Jeopardy since his interview with Mandru , but had thought about him often . |