Example sentences of "it [verb] no [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid .
2 It disclosed no reasonable cause of action and was frivolous and vexatious .
3 By summons , issued on 15 March 1991 , the third , fourth and fifth defendants asked , first , for an order that the action be struck out against them on the ground that it disclosed no reasonable cause of action or , alternatively , that paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer be struck out .
4 My local authority , quite rightly , takes on those children because they are in need , but it receives no financial assistance to cope with them .
5 The report has been attacked by Friends of the Earth , which insists that it represents no new departure .
6 Certainly it involves no unexplained notion of a lawlike statement .
7 However , if an application is made to the court for an order requiring the trustee to summon a meeting to consider a resolution for his removal as trustee , the court may , if it thinks no sufficient cause has been shown for the application , dismiss it but not until after an ex parte hearing of the applicant ( r 6.132(2) ) .
8 With regard to the fifteen inch speaker , Larry Hartke has stated that it offers no real performance advantages over Hartke 's renowned tens , but has been introduced to satisfy a specific demand .
9 Although this continues to be an illuminating fact in understanding the causes of mental handicap , it offers no real basis for prevention .
10 Whatever form it takes , it offers no personal recognition or status , and nor should it .
11 It offers no magic formula to improve the sight but describes activities and materials shown to be motivating in helping pupils to pay attention to visual stimuli .
12 However , he couches his explanation for these differences not simply at the level of what actual language users ‘ mean ’ , that is in relation to particular cultural practice and institutions ( within which the concept of ‘ relative objectivity ’ might make some sense ) , but instead at the level of what they ‘ say ’ , that is in relation to ‘ the lexical and grammatical structure of languages ’ , at the level of ‘ language-systems ’ , which appears to assume again the notion of absolute ‘ objectivity ’ , since , as we have seen , it offers no cultural context in which to make sense of such systems .
13 I did try on a couple of occasions to wind the engine up past the 5000rpm mark , where the torque curve begins to fall away rapidly , but it produced no more performance than was available by driving the car sensibly for economy .
14 In the sculpture it is difficult to determine what stage of metamorphosis this shape-changer has reached as it fits no equivalent passage in the poem .
15 When burned , it produces no harmful exhaust , merely water . "
16 This was thought to be due to the fact that the smaller wheels were leading , but the Metropolitan Electric tramways which had some similar cars on almost identical bogies , turned the bogies round on one of their cars ( No. 25 ) and it made no appreciable difference .
17 It did not seem to be of any consequence , for it made no immediate difference .
18 Its lack of significance is that it made no real difference to the political situation , except for putting the burgh of Edinburgh through a rapid change of councils and giving it the burden of housing the army of the Congregation .
19 obviously it was no good he , you could smoke like a chimney it made no damn difference the state his insides were
20 However , in the study , it made no significant difference whether a male or female teacher directed class activities .
21 It made no fucking sense at all , but Plummer had his reasons for believing the information .
22 However , it made no public statement concerning its decision that factual information and suspicions could be mixed in one computer .
23 It made no express reference to proceedings between a named representative of a class and a member of that class who might well have sharply different interests , as betweeen themselves , as to the substance of the plaintiff 's claim .
24 Whilst it amounted to an important general statement on the limits of state action in a democratic society , it provided no clear basis for specific government economic action .
25 Henry remained a doctrinal conservative until his death , and as a consequence , although the legislation enacted by the Reformation Parliament brought about a jurisdictional revolution , it created no new theology for the English church .
26 It created no new right of property or chose in action : it merely enabled a pre-existing right to be enforced .
27 It needs no great imagination to gauge the effect of all this upon the church 's pastoral mission , particularly when we bear in mind the numbers of royal presentations cited above .
28 If it does not , or when it files and gives notice that it is satisfied , or the court on application decides it needs no further information , then only is a return day fixed by the court .
29 It needs no physical medium between the two stations ( so called wireless communication ) .
30 It looks no unlike veal , but perhaps pinker , and has an unparalleled delicacy of texture .
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