Example sentences of "no [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Master of the Armouries , curator of Britain 's historic arms and armour collection , who is hell-bent on creating just such a hybrid and abandoning the ancient Tower of London where it has been housed for centuries for a purpose-built , speculative complex in Leeds , is risking a gargantuan version of the ‘ Sporting Glory ’ fiasco , with the extra twist that if his project fails , his objects will have no home to go back to . |
| 2 | Robbie spent the afternoon as Fen had suggested , and when she alighted from the stifling , ancient bus crowded with country folk , she felt in no mood to go back to the boat . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe by tomorrow you 'll come to realise the folly of your actions , especially if you find you 've no job to go back to . ’ |
| 4 | If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’ |
| 5 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |
| 6 | Expect the agency too , at least to have discovered that you like ballet or horse racing , though you have no right to expect either to be bought tickets for these entertainments or to be accompanied to them by your account executive . |
| 7 | There is no need to point out to you the extent to which women are under-represented in the House , and many women will be disappointed to note that , on an agreement affecting the female population — especially in relation to maternity rights and pay — we have not had a proper hearing today . |
| 8 | But I 'm using a computer , and there 's no need to adhere slavishly to the old methodologies . |
| 9 | Why do n't they release the body , there 's no need to hold on to it |
| 10 | There is no need to go back to square one ; just a few steps backward is all that is needed . |
| 11 | There was no need to go back to the shop . |
| 12 | No need to go back to my own phone — I can use one of these . |
| 13 | A week later it is evident that Fox-type gear was coming into common usage with no need to refer back to the specific case — ‘ a teenage girl was seized by two men wearing ‘ fox-style ’ balaclavas and raped at knife-point ’ ( London Evening Standard ) . |
| 14 | No need to dash out to the Chinese takeaway — if you keep an Oriental corner of the cupboard you can create your own instant stir- fries . |
| 15 | She made her way across the room to where her father was , still with Urquhart following ; evidently there was no need to keep close to the stepmother with the rest ; it looked as if Kate knew her own mind . |
| 16 | There is no need to walk up to the summit of Cairn Gorm underneath the chairlift , since there is a route that runs west from the car park , and takes you up on to the Fiacaill ridge , a world away from the frightful clanking kingdom of the ski-tows . |
| 17 | Différance means precisely that you can never get out of — and therefore have no need to get back to — history . |
| 18 | ‘ And , while I appreciate your charitable intent in trying to comfort me for Lotta 's absence from my bed , I tell you once more that the time when I might have needed consolation for Lotta 's tricks has long since passed , and the fact that I 've chosen to live the life of a monk for the past six months is because until the past few days I have felt no desire to give in to the temptations paraded before me . ’ |
| 19 | The body was discovered in a wood , but with no evidence to point either to the killer , or to the motive . |
| 20 | Waites has had to contend with all these signs in one year with no chance to adapt slowly to their effects . |
| 21 | If they went sailing , there would be no chance to speak privately to Mary ; in two days the Shelley party was leaving here , making for Geneva and thence to London . |
| 22 | But there is no obligation to keep rigidly to this rule ; nor is it necessary to take examinations at all the grades . |
| 23 | This being so , I can see no reason to force on to section 2 an unspoken qualification with which it has nothing to do . |
| 24 | The little Aeronca then took over and produced a perfect wheeler with no tendency to shoot off to either side , just the odd stiff little bump over the slightly uneven grass . |
| 25 | Checking and rechecking her figures , she had no time to give in to the promptings of the irrational . |