Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] no [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There has been effectively no involvement on the part of UK funds in index arbitrage .
2 Since the beginning of September until this week there has been practically no rain , and the wind has never reached gale force , so the leaves have stayed on the trees far longer than usual , with a constantly changing pattern of glorious colour .
3 ‘ There has been absolutely no discussion going on as to how many Liberal Democrat bottoms will sit in the back of how many government Daimlers , ’ he said .
4 There has been almost no concern expressed , however , about the implications of automated office systems for future research methodologies .
5 It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England .
6 Yet there has been almost no research into primary school children 's developing historical competence .
7 While international contracting on large development projects in the lesser developed countries is well established , there has been virtually no trading of construction services within Europe .
8 Although there has been much detailed study of the effects of tariff reduction in western Europe over the period 1945-68 there has been virtually no research into the impact on foreign trade and national balances of payments of the removal of non-tariff barriers , especially the quotas which had been widely imposed from 1931 onwards .
9 Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving .
10 Recently , there has been virtually no recruitment .
11 Compared with Judi , there had been almost no yield .
12 Admittedly there had been almost no money in it , but he took it as evidence that she was saving in order to leave him .
13 There had been almost no time for friends , let alone parties , outings or boyfriends .
14 When Paul Devereux took over The Ley Hunter in 1976 , it was widely assumed that some form of energy existed at ancient sites , but there had been virtually no research to back these ideas up .
15 ‘ And , anyway , he 's been absolutely no trouble to me at all .
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