Example sentences of "no [noun sg] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Surely the point when you have no money to employ a marketing manager you wo n't need to employ one . |
2 | He was there dealing not with summary remedies available to the state to which a citizen had no opportunity to state a defence but rather to additional consequences which might adversely affect a citizen should he fail in his defence to the claim to the principal sum . |
3 | Asked if at that stage no decision to issue a warning had been reached , again Mr Runciman replied : ‘ I am afraid that is not so . ’ |
4 | Of course , there is no necessity to include a sample or a gift in any press pack and indeed simply including these items for the sake of it and without a clearly defined idea of why you are doing it is a waste of money . |
5 | He was therefore under no necessity to establish a contract and the question of consideration was irrelevant . |
6 | Of course they laugh at Beryl and her friend , they think Francis was a bit weird , and the old man had the name for being tight fisted , but there 's no stick to beat a dog with in all that . ’ |
7 | They had to be reasonable ( no sledge-hammer to crack a nut ) , controlled , and moral . |
8 | It was no kindness to allow a litigant who was unsuccessful in the trial court to incur costs protesting at that result , if the decision was demonstrably correct or , as often in matrimonial disputes , if there was no ‘ right ’ answer and the trial judge must inevitably be the final arbiter . |
9 | It would still do you no harm to attend a re-entry programme in the meantime , as it will give you a taste of current nursing practice , and help you in deciding exactly what you would like to do in the future . |
10 | The sergeant nodded , deciding it could do no harm to concede a point he had already taken . |
11 | a defendant should take no action to induce a plaintiff to incur costs in the reasonable belief that he is willing for the case to proceed to trial . |
12 | The text ends with the words ‘ for although at strict law the heirs should be held by no action to build a monument , none the less they are compelled by pontifical or imperial authority to observance of the last wishes [ of the deceased ] ’ . |
13 | It 's no criterion to arrest a man for being drunk . |
14 | First it was agreed ( the meeting in this respect giving the impression of being a little behind events ) that Asquith should make no attempt to form a Government without Lloyd George and the Unionists . |
15 | Rossmayne made no attempt to fake a lack of understanding . |
16 | For some thousand years there was virtually no attempt to give a ruler an individual image . |
17 | ( In mid-September US Attorney Jay B. Stephens said that there would be no attempt to obtain a retrial on the 12 outstanding charges . ) |
18 | If , however , there is no attempt to copy a pattern , there is often more appreciation of shape in whatever is made — like the four-year-old who made a triangular shape from three strips and correctly named it , whilst another boy ( 3.9 ) named the second shape ( a square ) when he added a fourth strip to the original three . |
19 | Thirdly that there is no requirement to demonstrate a need to locate development in open countryside erm and we 've been reminded this morning that erm one of the erm flaws in the policy put forward back in nineteen seventy nine or eighty erm appears to be that it erm required , certainly in the explanatory memorandum , that the development be erm essential erm to er essentially have a countryside location . |
20 | The government has approved the offer , and there is no requirement to buy a house . |
21 | So there is no requirement to recognise a minority interest in respect of the preference shares . |
22 | Mr. Collins 's letter to my constituent , which is extremely clear , states : ’ In the case of the rail link , there would have been no proposal to build a terminal , were it not for the need to provide one for the Channel Tunnel rail link . |
23 | ‘ Insurance was hard to come by and there was no bonding to suit a UK operation as ABTOT ( the Association of Bonded Travel Organisers Trust , run by Travel & General Insurance plc ) did not have DTI approved-body status in time . |
24 | There is no capacity to discuss a trade-off of 1,000 million between tax relief on pensions and higher cash old age pensions . |
25 | It was the most united of the three parties , and , having adopted a socialist constitution in 1918 , it was in no mood to form a coalition with either of the ‘ capitalist ’ parties . |
26 | Steve Richardson was also pleased with his 71 , which lifted him above both Woosnam and Olazabal , who was in no mood to discuss a game that for the moment is off . |
27 | So that there was no incentive to develop a notation designed to represent the non-lexical parts of an utterance . |
28 | However , the seminars are for teaching and there is no aim to make a profit — not many events in the Uk are like that . |
29 | , writes : THERE is another reason for the expression ‘ No room to swing a cat . ’ |
30 | Even so , no room to swing a cat . |