Example sentences of "no [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , once up there the temptation to carry on is too strong , so choose a day early in the summer if you have no will-power to stave off the seduction of the tops . |
| 2 | After first of all declining to write for the series , Nation eventually agreed after a row with his former employer , comedian Tony Hancock , left him with no income to pay for a central heating system he was having installed at home . |
| 3 | In England the Lords of Trade certainly had no money to spend on the colonies ; and would have been quite as surprised as any earlier generations at a suggestion that they ought to be spending money on them . |
| 4 | ‘ But you do n't understand , there 's no money to buy in the leather stocks we need , how can we sell a commodity we have n't got ? ’ |
| 5 | The finance minister , Theo Waigel , wailed that he has no money to pay for a move to Berlin , costed ( depending on the interest of those doing the sums ) at between DM6 billion ( $3.4 billion ) and DM125 billion . |
| 6 | I shall , of course , strenuously defend the action and , as I have no money to pay for a lawyer , will present my own defence . |
| 7 | Because there is no money to pay for the extra care and maintenance staff , janitors , and others , who would be required to make greater use of the facilities at night or at week-ends . |
| 8 | Before the Appellate Committee Mr. Nicholls submitted , on behalf of the Swedish government , that in committal proceedings in this country the same test is applicable as in the case of a submission by the defendant of no case to answer at the end of the prosecution evidence at his trial . |
| 9 | Any respondent may make a submission of no case to answer at the conclusion of the applicant 's evidence . |
| 10 | But when the defendant appeared at the Bow Street Magistrates ' Court to answer an information that he had committed the offence under section 5(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1988 of driving with excess alcohol in the blood , he pleaded not guilty and at the close of the case for the prosecution a submission was made that he had no case to answer on the ground that the officer 's requirement at Vine Street Police Station that he provide a specimen of blood had not been validly made in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 11 | On appeal to the Crown Court it was held that the defendant had no case to answer on the ground , put shortly , that the constable had not independently decided whether to require blood or urine but had simply followed the Metropolitan Police pro forma instruction then current . |
| 12 | After evidence had been led for the prosecution counsel for the defendant submitted that there was no case to answer on the theft charges because the manager of the shop had authorised the transactions , so that there had been no appropriation within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Act . |
| 13 | We regret though that it will not allow the defence to make an early submission of no case to answer in the magistrates ' court . |
| 14 | If we now adopt Grice 's meaning-nn as the scope of meaning in the definition of pragmatics in ( 9 ) , we shall include most of the phenomena that we want to include , like the ironic , metaphoric and indirect implications of what we say ( elements 5 , 6 and 7 in Table I.I ) , and exclude the unintended inferences that intuitively have no part to play in a theory of communication . |
| 15 | ‘ It is customary to wish good luck to new enterprises but , in this case , I am sure that the team worked very hard to make sure that luck had no part to play in the implementation and so the good wishes would have been redundant , ’ said Alan . |
| 16 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 17 | Moreover , even if I were called , there is no opportunity to vote on the issue . |
| 18 | On the facts of the case the rules of natural justice had been broken because the constable had had no opportunity to comment upon the allegations made against him . |
| 19 | He loses no opportunity to boast of the glories of his native land . |
| 20 | No progress to report on the Baberton Crescent scheme but enquiries have been received from Woodhall area . |
| 21 | No progress to report on the Baberton Crescent scheme but enquiries have been received from Woodhall area . |
| 22 | One Way Traffic No progress to report in the implementation of a one way traffic system in Viewfield Road . |
| 23 | One Way Traffic No progress to report in the implementation of a one way traffic system in Viewfield Road . |
| 24 | They also complained about unfairness , but there was no willingness to look at the charges or to have proper consultation with local authorities to see how they and the Government could work together to improve the general standards of our beaches . |
| 25 | ‘ I have no heart to listen to the talk of humans ! ’ |
| 26 | We are sorry there was no index to help in the search for these . |
| 27 | There had been no poverty at all , no necessity to move except the necessity of a woman who had been driven by some perverse whim to deny her former husband the right to see his daughter . |
| 28 | Between her and Christopher there had been no euphoria to fade into the light of common day . |
| 29 | Because i if you 're from outside the village you would have no entitlement to land in the village at all would you ? |
| 30 | Count Jovian , after three years at an English university , has no mind to sit on a throne : |