Example sentences of "have [verb] no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley has promised no hasty decision will be taken over the hospital 's future . |
| 32 | The Apollo Theatre chain has requested no black paint . |
| 33 | The tyres are wearing well , fuel economy is improving and it has needed no extra oil since its 6000-mile service , which cost a reasonable £17.48 . |
| 34 | Ford 's bull-whip has played no mean role either — the whip raised £12,500 at an auction in aid of new archaeological science laboratories for the Institute of Archaeology at University College London . |
| 35 | The great agricultural revolution of our own times , in which drainage has played no small part , has accelerated the decline of the small farmer just as surely as it has imperilled the ecological system previously sustained by communal wetland management ; and , at the last , it has begun to destroy the basic resources of the land , as ever deeper drainage has created mineral problems in the soil , wastage of peat , and an increasing dependence upon pumping . |
| 36 | Meanwhile we have the jubilant pictures of Hillary Clinton celebrating her husband 's triumph in which she has played no small part . |
| 37 | Britain has played no significant role in international affairs for 30 years . |
| 38 | But the car has inspired no great architecture and no great art . |
| 39 | Pinnacle Data Systems Inc , one of the Sparc system manufacturers that plans to build a workstation compatible with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Mbus-based Sparcstation 10 ( UX No 392 ) , is set to become the first customer for Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's 64-bit HyperSparc RISC chip , a CPU which has garnered no discernible industry support since its launch back in May ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 40 | Gideon Haigh evokes an early tour to the beautiful island which has known no international cricket for five years |
| 41 | Paul Hirst , at 16 , has known no other life . |
| 42 | The Department has provided no financial support for the DCDC . |
| 43 | The government has provided no new money . |
| 44 | Modern econometric work has found no conclusive evidence for the existence of a liquidity trap . |
| 45 | Although it keeps the economy afloat , the flood of coca dollars has brought no developmental benefit . |
| 46 | Does the Prime Minister agree that the statement by Terry Waite 's captors that they now recognise that they did wrong and that what they did has served no useful purpose should be understood by all those who engage in the vile practice of taking hostages , anywhere ? |
| 47 | But Connors has taken no serious breaks from the game and its stylistic progress ; his game in itself has durable , idiosyncratic features ( whereas Borg 's became the prototype on which newcomers based their own playing patterns ) ; and he has been able to take his audience along with him through the very gradual decline in his competitive expectations . |
| 48 | Indeed , the model outlined in this chapter has taken no explicit account of the monetary sector and as such is sometimes called the ‘ simple ’ Keynesian model . |
| 49 | Bazaar rumour has it that as many as 100 of these anti-American clerics have been locked away ; but the government has taken no public stand against them . |
| 50 | Meanwhile , John Sharpe hopes that others will follow one ARA client which , as part of a move to create a smaller-scale working atmosphere and not generate plastic cups , has specified no vending machines at its new head office . |
| 51 | The practice of consensus politics has meant no determined action against inequalities by any Labour government . |
| 52 | The layman of the tenth , eleventh and early twelfth centuries was more remote from our experience and has left no comparable memorial . |
| 53 | Erm and the inspector simply pointed there that the county er the council has quoted no approved policies to protect the countryside for its own sake . |
| 54 | Great effort was put into developing three new drugs , but these flopped ; Zeneca has launched no new products since 1989 . |
| 55 | Furthermore , MDC 's capacity to meet the new challenges has to be questioned , since it has been granted limited additional resources and has recruited no extra staff to meet its wider remit . |
| 56 | Erm which is points up a weakness there on the public relations side there I mean going back to their post share repurchase they said that they 'd got no new products in the pipeline , no research and development really sort of throwing anything up in the near future . |
| 57 | Mercer Lorrimore in his turn and with a smile said his horse was called Voting Right , and no , he 'd had no advance notice of any attack . |
| 58 | Perhaps he 'd had no real intention of stuffing her up her back passage . |
| 59 | Finding herself passing Tony 's lodgings one evening when they 'd had no pre-arranged date , she had decided on impulse to drop in and surprise him . |
| 60 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |