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

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1 It was as if the Secretary of State were directly running the railways himself , with no chairman or managing director between him and the service .
2 We knew that there were no instant or easy solutions to overcome the problems that we faced .
3 An affidavit of service is only required where no defence or other evidence of service is available and judgment in default is being sought .
4 An affidavit of service is required where no defence or other evidence of service is available and the plaintiff is seeking judgment by default .
5 There will be no mass or flying pickets .
6 He opened the bag and found no money or other valuables .
7 This is why sometimes we can achieve tasks with no difficulty and other times the same task produces anxiety and stress symptoms .
8 Yet now , three and a half years after Debbie was discharged from hospital , her mother has written a letter to the authorities , bitterly criticising them for ‘ bad planning , no comprehension and dismissive attitudes ’ .
9 Patients , aged 18 years or over , were recruited from the Rheumatology and the Gastroenterology outpatient clinics , provided they had no malignancy or previous history of gastric or duodenal surgery .
10 Since they are presumed to be the only judges of how good their work is , no layman or other outsider can make any judgment of what they can do .
11 It is no coincidence that hapless Oldham ran into a side containing both Ryan Giggs and Lee Sharpe on the wings , Bryan Robson behind them and McClair in his rightful slot up front .
12 They had views on major political issues too : it 's no coincidence that well-informed contemporaries mention the existence of an East Frankish " public opinion " in the context of Carolingian invasion plans in both 858 and 876 .
13 Its key terms , such as ‘ action ’ and ‘ act ’ , are universal , and it is no coincidence that ethogenic theorists tend to select illustrative materials across the ranges of historical and anthropological sources .
14 For example , it is no coincidence that interactive video is currently getting funding in subject areas such as mathematics where there is an acute teacher shortage .
15 It was no coincidence that these decades saw new programmatic statements of papal ideology and a revitalising of contacts between Rome and all parts of the west .
16 Jacqueline de Romilly , Professor of Greek Literature at the Sorbonne , in her Messenger Lectures at Cornell University in 1967 on ‘ Time in Greek Tragedy ’ , has argued that it was no coincidence that Greek tragedy was born at the same time as historiography .
17 It is no coincidence that mass schooling was invented at roughly the time when nation states had come into existence and the need arose to instil in their citizens the idea that the new entity had first claim on their loyalties .
18 It is no coincidence that most fishkeepers choose the traditional rectangular tank , as most of the potential problems outlined above just do no present themselves .
19 An it 's no coincidence dat most rappers are Black .
20 No leaven nor any honey … you shall offer salt ( 2:22ff. ) : leaven ( yeast ) or honey caused fermentation .
21 Ms or Mr Trim wakes up for an early morning drink , has tea or coffee with either no milk or skimmed milk and definitely no sugar .
22 Consider the view that no banking and financial system can operate effectively without a central bank .
23 There was no narrative or overt expressiveness in the movement , which consisted mainly of high-energy skips and swoops .
24 Another extraordinary feature of the situation was that ND 's executive officer , John Torkington , put over a PA announcement to the effect that there could be no play while any rain continued unless both captains agreed .
25 His heart cried out for his countrymen , forced to live grey , drab existences in a land where there was no freedom and little truth , but so much potential beauty .
26 Supply flights had to be made at night ; the aircraft had no radar or proper navigation equipment , could not get information even about the weather , and had to find drop zones in thick jungle by the light or smoke of bonfires .
27 Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts .
28 It 's one of the few herds left with no Canadian or American blood .
29 Always cut back to clean , healthy wood , with no discolouration or other sign of disease .
30 Tazieff maintains , however , that there is no contamination or any release of radio activity from underground testing , and that it is ‘ scientifically impossible ’ for radio active debris to be spread beyond Mururoa by storms .
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