Example sentences of "no [adj] [noun sg] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to this time no genuine attempt had been made to acquire knowledge of our early inhabitants , no extensive plan for a generalisation of known excavations . |
| 2 | The Rules of the Supreme Court make no specific provision for a contemnor being served with a copy of the committal order , but as I have mentioned an instruction has been issued by the Clerk of the Rules with the approval of the President of the Family Division which makes it the duty of the applicant 's solicitor to serve the committal order , but does not require personal service . |
| 3 | Mr Asquith considers the King would be constitutionally justified in giving an absolute refusal … there can be no possible justification for a third Election within a year ; and , if on the King 's refusal to dissolve Parliament Mr Ramsay MacDonald resigned , and his Majesty sent for Mr Asquith , the latter would accept all responsibility for the King 's action . |
| 4 | At present there is no clear evidence for a pre-Flavian settlement associated with this site either north or south of the Billing Brook , though some of the later streets immediately outside the fort might perpetuate elements of an original vicus . |
| 5 | There is no defensible basis for a global answer to this question . |
| 6 | A low level of unemployment would certainly make the finance of the social security scheme less perilous but there had been no organised lobbying for a full employment policy . |
| 7 | If there is no stated requirement for a quorum , persuade the Chairman to start at the advertised time even if only you and he are present . |
| 8 | A tragic number of those best equipped to explain the Council 's teaching retired from the clergy in the later 1960s and the 1970s , and thereafter were disqualified from teaching as a ministry in the Church , though there is no moral justification for a general judgement that such persons become unworthy to teach . |
| 9 | ‘ It is no easy thing for a person like Wilson , whose family has had a complex religious history — his father , for example , was a … er … |
| 10 | In a region dominated by Whitbread ( aka Fremlins ) and Allied ( aka Friary Meux ) , who both prefer to supply their own guest beers to tenants , getting into the pubs is no easy matter for a micro . |
| 11 | And finally where there seems to be no intrinsic need for a preposition : to see her is to love her . |
| 12 | I would do no hard training for a month afterwards and not race for about six weeks ’ |
| 13 | It is easy to see why a police officer might take the view that there is no obvious use for a time-consuming and expensive procedure such as an identity parade where it appears that the suspect is known to the witness . |
| 14 | It is stressed that ‘ DHAs will need to develop sensitive procedures … but will have the right to refuse … if there is no satisfactory reason for a distant or expensive referral ’ ( DoH , 1989 e ) . |
| 15 | In terms of conventional undergraduate courses , I see no great pressure for a further extension of the modular pattern , but so far as universities and colleges are concerned , I foresee an explosion in the modular approach at the Continuing Education level . |
| 16 | Papers are rejected at this stage because they are insufficiently original for the BMJ , carry no useful message for a general medical audience , or are seriously flawed scientifically or completely incomprehensible . |
| 17 | In fact , one adherent of the New Cambridge School , Lord Kaldor ( 1980 ) , went so far as to say that there is no empirical support for a high PSBR leading either to substantial growth in money supply or to high rates of interest . |
| 18 | There is no legal requirement for a child 's evidence to be corroborated in civil proceedings . |
| 19 | Practitioners seem to accept that worthy cases of mercy killing invariably have this outcome , but this informal approach provides the defendant with no legal basis for a defence — he or she is truly at the mercy of the psychiatrists , the prosecutor , and the judge . |
| 20 | Third parties have no legal basis for a claim that a treaty merely affects them in some way , or that non-performance or reduced performance has frustrated their own expectations ; nor can they interfere with the rights of other States to enter into such treaties . |
| 21 | I can not help thinking , on broad principles , that the staying proceedings in an action brought without any cause is no good consideration for a promise such as is relied on here . |
| 22 | Such a policy had ( and has ) its risks ; the forbidden becomes tempting — especially if there seems no good reason for a restriction . |
| 23 | The submission made by Lord Meston is that there was no factual basis for a finding that the child would be placed in an intolerable situation if returned to Canada . |
| 24 | Psychophysical laws , in other words , provide no independent evidence for a physical basis of perception . |
| 25 | Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand-to-mouth most of the time and had little formal education . |
| 26 | At the time it was worth five shillings , no mean sum for a Gorbals kid , but had this promise been honoured I would not have parted with the note . |
| 27 | The argument that there is no long-term viability for a country which is economically isolated from the rest of the world is not new . |
| 28 | Lovejoy himself is firmly in the tradition of the likeable rogue — no first name for a start . |
| 29 | Bedrooms were not heated , and there was no hot water for a quick wash : the geyser was lit for baths only . |
| 30 | If there is no immediate buyer for a share parcel , then tough . |