Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first day of the war , the Americans and their allies had flown hundreds of sorties against Iraq , dropped thousands of pounds of bombs and met virtually no resistance . |
| 2 | Raster scanning/vectorization is also fast , and involves almost no user intervention . |
| 3 | This is one of the few Lakeland crags to face due north and receives virtually no sun whatsoever . |
| 4 | ( An able pupil of mine who became a successful solicitor was glad he did not become a barrister , who in his experience is driven too hard ; the clerk piles too much work on him , he has no one to delegate to , and has virtually no assistance except of a secretarial kind ; also , counsel in general common law practice has much travelling to do . ) |
| 5 | Operating at temperatures close to absolute zero ( -273C ) , super-magnets deliver the most powerful fields available and consume practically no electricity while operating in their superconducting ( ie , loss-free ) state . |
| 6 | In this study the antigliadin antibody-IgG test was often abnormal on gluten free diet and showed almost no correlation with the microchallenge . |
| 7 | It is northing more than another attack aimed at the trade unions under the government 's Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill , and takes absolutely no account of the additional hardship it will impose on our members . |
| 8 | One possible solution , he suggested , would be to modify engineered plants so that they are male-sterile and produce either no pollen or pollen that is inactive . |
| 9 | It 's usually er er males that go to wars rather than females , and you can waste them on a vast scale like we did at the time of the first world war and , and find virtually no effect on your population . |
| 10 | The government of the Virgin Islands was accused of mismanagement and having almost no control over the activities of DC personnel working on the project . |
| 11 | But to enable him to concentrate on it , the government services that arose one after the other in the nineteenth century ( forestry , irrigation , the archaeological survey , public health and sani-tation , roads ) were organized outside the administrative structure , and had virtually no contact with the district officer . |
| 12 | It sold world-wide , was a household name , and had virtually no competition . |
| 13 | He was well off and had therefore no difficulty in accomplishing this . |
| 14 | Doogie was Scottish — well , he would be , nobody would admit to coming from Inverness if they were n't — and had absolutely no sense of humour . |
| 15 | PCMCIA cards add fantastic versatility to a machine and have virtually no weight penalty . |
| 16 | These grow naturally as a single , vertical stem and need absolutely no pruning . |
| 17 | The rattlesnake is a more formidable enemy , because it has infra-red detectors to see in the dark and makes virtually no noise as it glides along . |