Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [prep] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , government has been shaped by no grand design . |
| 2 | The British economy has been sustained in no small part by migrants from the former dominions — India , Pakistan , Bangladesh and the West Indies . |
| 3 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
| 4 | That policy would destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs in defence industries , including many in my constituency , yet it has been endorsed on no fewer than three occasions by large majorities at the Labour party conference . |
| 5 | Although the Bank of Scotland has been established by no less a Protestant champion than William of Orange , this nervousness led George I , or rather his advisers , to doubt that bank 's allegiance . |
| 6 | Er we also had one very large , cumbersome machine which carried things like lighting and breathing apparatus , and heavy lifting gear and all the other bits and pieces of rescue equipment , which came along in slow time , now that has been improved upon no end , and they 've got a very modern equipment now for that , erm er modern in the sense that new , new pieces have come on , cutting equipment with hydraulic jaws which er just slice through the top of a car roof , whereas we had to cut it with a hacksaw perhaps , or , or another metal saw , we , these can be done with just like cutting through cheese . |
| 7 | There was no officer gaping for a fee ; this could have been said of no city on the English side of the Tweed . ’ |
| 8 | even then , they would have been left with no source of income . |
| 9 | Unfortunately the government is assuming that 's all we are doing so they 're cutting housing subsidy accordingly and we would have been left with no choice , that 's all there is to be said on the matter . |
| 10 | On the very morning after his arrival in the Scottish capital the Duke left for Stirling , where the castle was proving too hard a nut for the Jacobites to crack , and , several hundred men having been lost to no purpose , the siege was finally , soon after the Battle of Falkirk , abandoned , Lord George Murray and other senior commanders having persuaded the prince , much against his will — ‘ Good God ! |
| 11 | Her blouse fell open and her naked breast was warmed by the hot sun and his mouth drawing her desire from deep within her , a desire she thought had been lost for no other man would have been able to free it , no other but him . |
| 12 | Desperate Jatinder Puri said she had been left with no alternative after her husband had been refused an entry visa three times . |
| 13 | Although this had initially been rejected out of hand by Clasper , he had been left in no doubt that his members would hold their own mass meeting without him if he chose not to call it . |
| 14 | I had been left in no doubt that any other way of handling John 's case might endanger his life . |
| 15 | He was a powerful , virile man , and she had been left in no doubt as to the physical effect she had on him . |
| 16 | Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards . |
| 17 | I find it strange that a wife , a queen , a princess with responsibilities , who had been informed in no uncertain fashion that her husband was to join her , fails to do anything when he does not arrive . |
| 18 | The concession of such facilities to the USSR had been shown as no reliable indication of genuine alignment with that power . |
| 19 | Nothing went smoothly , even when it appeared that the most minute details had been described with no further room for misunderstanding . |
| 20 | He had been in good health , and had been subjected to no particular strain or exertion . |
| 21 | Adonis co-manager Rick Sands said : ‘ We 've been left with no choice but to take action . |
| 22 | So we 've been left with no other avenue but to go to law . |
| 23 | They 've been left with no job , no family support and with long-term illnesses . |
| 24 | Studies for the £1bn Mersey Barrage scheme have been shelved with no immediate plans for further work . |
| 25 | ‘ We have been left with no alternative but to take action through the courts to defend the Legal Aid Scheme . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're desperate for a win and the players have been left in no doubt what I expect of them , ’ said Laughton . |
| 27 | England 's players have been left in no doubt about their need to improve . |
| 28 | Two seats out of three have been won for no more than 42.5% of the votes , and two out of four for only 24.2% . |