Example sentences of "as [verb] no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potts J. dismissed the defendants ' application to strike out the statement of claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action . |
| 2 | Technically the appeal against the decision of Potts J. is interlocutory because decided on an application by the defendants to strike out the claim as disclosing no reasonable cause of action , while the appeal against the decision of Phillips J. is a final appeal because his decision was on a question directed by consent to be tried as a preliminary issue . |
| 3 | To represent a happening as unforeseeable , however — and herein lies the explanation for the use of the infinitive with to — one must necessarily evoke a position before its occurrence : the stretch of time leading up to it must be evoked as containing no prior indication that it was going to occur . |
| 4 | Some parts of this common law have long fallen into disuse as having no contemporary relevance . |
| 5 | It may record its disagreement but ultimately accept the majority 's support of the development ; it may refuse to meet its financial obligations until the organisation ceases the action in question , although this may itself be contrary to the treaty ; it may regard the action as having no legal effect ; or it may withdraw from the organisation . |
| 6 | Mrs Whitehouse viewed these programmes as having no redeeming qualities whatsoever , and it was not long before she herself became the subject of a satirical programme in her own right . |
| 7 | In the 1980s , Rothenberg explored the human form , which had been dismissed by early minimalists as having no new means of expression . |
| 8 | Being mostly confined to Buckinghamshire , the handful of parsons reported as having no personal property serve as much as anything to highlight doubts about the approach to clerical assessments there . |
| 9 | 26 year old Christopher Gore , is a former Bath University student , described as having no fixed address . |
| 10 | The inexorable way in which it became directed towards , or associated with a ‘ god ’ of some sort , can be regarded as having no other significance than to be a source of evidence that without a god and religion in some form , there would be for man an intolerable vacuum in his existence . |
| 11 | There are several types of element which fail the straightforward version of the recurrent contrast test , and can not be rescued by any of the strategies suggested in the previous section , but which can not , unlike the — oss of moss , be dismissed as having no semantic relevance . |
| 12 | Bush characterized the action as having no military advantage for the Iraqis and as providing further evidence of Saddam Hussein 's ability to " amaze " and " outrage " international opinion . |
| 13 | The opposite view , that of Morgan 's contemporary , McLennan — a view derided by Morgan , Marx , and Engels — sees kinship terms as having no social significance at all . |
| 14 | John Steel Lewes was buried in the desert and is listed on the El Alamein memorial as having no known grave . |
| 15 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 16 | But now that King James VI of Scotland was also King James I of England he was determined to rule both kingdoms so as to allow no further violence between them . |
| 17 | For example home help was costed at £2.92 per hour in Ipswich , and £4.17 in Newham ; most day care in Ipswich was provided in Residential Homes which was calculated as involving no extra cost unless transport was provided , whereas in Newham day care was usually provided in day centres , involving a cost of just under £5 per day on top of the cost of transportation ( see Appendix IV . |
| 18 | It has always been regarded as desirable that the police should be seen as taking no particular stance regarding political activity and that they should not be placed in a position where decisions of a party political nature are concerned . |
| 19 | Adult prisons ( for those aged 21 or over ) are divided into ‘ local ’ prisons , which receive people from the courts , whether on remand or at the start of a sentence ( and where short sentences may be served in their entirety ) ; closed ‘ training ’ prisons of which Maidstone is one , and ‘ open ’ prisons , which have a minimum of security and are for prisoners perceived as posing no real risk to the public . |
| 20 | We have described the problems of using data on utilisation of services which we see as offering no reliable way of weighting different indicators . |