Example sentences of "hold no [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indycar racing holds no fears for the brave Brummie , even though it is a notorious killer with spectacular crashes in cars belting around oval tracks at 240mph . |
| 2 | I understand Turkey holds no attraction for the out-of-contract striker , who has refused to sign a one-year deal at Anfield . |
| 3 | But , as she demonstrated so memorably in last year 's auspicious Prom performance , it holds no terrors for the young soprano Galina Gorchakova , who gives a performance of thrilling virtuosity and commitment . |
| 4 | Crime prevention is despised work for detectives for it holds no place for the drama of the chase and no opportunity for the symbolic warfare which exists in the battles between ‘ polises ’ and ‘ prigs ’ . |
| 5 | Well I will answer that er holds no stock of the product because the product is er the the current products are sold by us exclusively . |
| 6 | McKeag , chairman of Newcastle before he was ousted by Hall , is still United 's League representative but holds no power at the club . |
| 7 | I know beyond question that I am Oedipus and he is I. I should make it clear that I hold no truck with the theory of reincarnation ; it is just as clear to me that I am Marie Romanov , whose life overlapped with mine . |
| 8 | Obviously these privately owned buses hold no truck with The Knowledge , because our lad did n't know his St Pancreas from his Bell-Bow . |
| 9 | Wisely understood , resolutely faced , it need hold no fear for the Christian . |
| 10 | Foresters of fee who held no land of the king relied on the dues they exacted from the forest inhabitants as their recompense for guarding vert and venison : the temptation to extortion was great . |
| 11 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 12 | And Mrs Katz , a gentle soul who held no grudge for the loss of her skull . |
| 13 | Attrition , bribery and plain common sense brought about the fall of Kyrenia a few weeks after Nicholas returned there , and although Carlotta , kept in ignorance , might have been devastated by the news , it held no surprises for the people of Cyprus . |
| 14 | Now , at nearly twenty , he was still struggling to pass his Grade 12 examinations in high school , having been assured by his father , the school , and society at large that the world held no place for a boy without his Grade 12 . |
| 15 | Lesbianism held no terrors for the Major , who had long experience of the women 's services . |