Example sentences of "no [noun sg] to any [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This displeased not only Edward of England but also Robert the Bruce , who could offer no support to any faction standing between him and the crown .
2 Unofficial strike action followed and the union 's own bankers were granted an injunction prohibiting the NUS from transferring any of their property abroad , on the principle that third parties must ensure that they gave no aid to any action which might occur if the union 's property were sequestrated as a result of some future contempt of court .
3 there was no reference to any discussion about Westland and consequently no record of my protest .
4 You mentioned the accounts of the Maxwell Charitable Trust as having five hundred thousand of assets , I saw those accounts for the first time the other day and I found that they had five hundred and one thousand of assets of which er five hundred thousand consisted of a a purely hypothetical transfer of an asset from a Liechtenstein trust to the U K trust and that asset had no valuation done on it as far as I can make out a and no reference to any valuation appeared in the accounts , so we actually had B I M apparently owned by a charitable trust on the face of it with figures of five hundred and one thousand of assets , but in practical accounting terms and valuation terms , no evidence that those five hundred and one thousand pounds er of assets had any valuation approaching that figure .
5 Some writers have pointed out that the notion of professionalism is occasionally used to improve the image , prestige and rewards of teachers with little or no reference to any commitment to improve educational practice .
6 The Act itself makes no reference to any power to relist but in an important judgment in Daniel Lawton L.J. , stated :
7 The Court made no reference to any presumption that the criminal law should be construed strictly in favour of a defendant .
8 As to the right hon. Gentleman 's last point , there will be no bar to any governor being appointed to the board of an integrated school , provided that the appointment complies with the provisions laid down in the Education Reform ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1989 .
9 It has no affiliation to any preservation society or other national group , being established merely as a focal point for those wishing to , either , exchange information on current steam operation worldwide , or , to indulge in the sheer nostalgia of days bygone .
10 He said there was no point to any meeting .
11 Our pledge to you is that we owe no allegiance to any manufacturer ( though we reserve the right to let their best brains entertain and inform you on these pages ) .
12 However , the closure of pits brings no joy to any party .
13 The plaintiff had no right to any pension .
14 Each entity , or group , is uniquely defined and has no relationship to any other in the file ( except as a consequence of file order ) .
15 Clearly he was asking a question , but the gutturals of the language he used bore no relationship to any form of speech which was in use in the Empire .
16 A postscript exemplifies Miller 's independence , an attitude which ultimately caused friction with his employers : ‘ Pray take no notice to any body what I sent you , for some of our Company is for making a law that I should part with nothing without the consent of the company . ’
17 They are no example to any kid and the Home Office should stop this glorification of crime .
18 With regard to age , in rural Lincolnshire 13 per cent of those aged over 60 were found to have no access to any kind of private transport compared with only 5 per cent in the population as a whole ( Clark and Unwin 1981 ) .
19 At the end of the day the whole community has to know what this is all about , but let me stress , there is no threat in this process that is being proposed , to bring about a total cessation of violence , there is no threat to any section of our community , none what so ever .
20 Thus far it can be argued that , if and in so far as the objection to the validity of a pretended Act of Parliament is purely procedural , there is no objection to any court ( and not merely the House of Lords ) making such minimal inquiries as are consistent with Parliamentary privilege in order to ensure that the instrument in question was consented to by the two Houses and did receive the Royal Assent .
21 According to Gandhi , ahi sā in its negative form involves doing no injury to any living being either physically or mentally .
22 It may be true that the life we destroy is in the main of the lower orders or minute forms , but it is none the less destruction of life for all that , and since ahi sā involves doing no injury to any form of life , it follows that no matter how careful and compassionate and self-restrained a person may be he can not entirely escape committing hi sā .
23 Having inspected menageries in circuses for the tes for the pa past ten years , I have seen no cruelty to any circus animal in that time , and that speaks for itself .
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