Example sentences of "that he [verb] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employee will further claim that he made no conscious effort to memorise the information . |
| 2 | He cast the blankets aside , pleased that he felt no ill effects from the terrible chase of the previous night . |
| 3 | The greatest cause of the Prince 's despondency had been the feeling that he served no useful purpose . |
| 4 | The greatest cause of Charles 's despondency was the feeling that he served no useful purpose |
| 5 | When asked to assess the opposition , manager Lazaroni replied diplomatically that he fears no single Italian player , rather he fears the whole side . |
| 6 | But Mr Akers reiterated yesterday that he saw no long-term change in economic assumptions or any downturn in demand for the company 's products . |
| 7 | Grierson was a West Highland Scot , as was immediately evident from his accent , an accent which he never attempted to conceal for the excellent reason that he saw no earthly reason why he ever should . |
| 8 | Herr Nordern was quizzed by the entire staff but stoically maintained that he knew no more than anyone else . |
| 9 | The producer shrugged , adding that he knew no more than what he had told Blanche before . |
| 10 | The point which Lance Henderson makes and he stressed over and over again that he seeks no personal recognition at all and the point of retelling this story here long , long years after is that they should never be forgotten . |
| 11 | Given that series of gaffes , will he now compound his confusion and tell us that he bears no personal responsibility for the appalling slump that is devastating Britain today ? |
| 12 | Despite the occasional brush with the law ( ‘ obstructing the police ’ in Vienna ) , Mr Rossi seems to have led a laudatory ( for a man of his calling ) existence — save for the fact that he bears no little responsibility in influencing the progeny of working people to attire themselves in tent material . |
| 13 | Such questions are worth distinguishing , however , because there are moral philosophers today who think that Kant effectively answered the third correctly , but that he offers no sufficient answer to the second . |
| 14 | It is worth remembering that , when Indira asked Rajiv to go into politics after his elder brother 's death in 1980 , he put out a statement saying that he had no such intention . |
| 15 | He said he was quick to point out that he had no such intention . |
| 16 | Handed in letter from my father stating that he had no other relatives in the area and because of his blindness and disability he would benefit from them moving into the area . |
| 17 | Vic Williams has said that he left his regiment only after concluding that he had no other option remaining ( at no time prior to his decision to leave was he made aware of his rights as a soldier to register a conscientious objection to military service ) . |
| 18 | At Buckingham Palace on Sunday morning he declared that he had no other course , and afterwards wrote in his diary : ‘ I commit political suicide to save the crisis . ’ |
| 19 | However , in Armagas the person dealing with the agent knew that he had no actual authority to enter the transaction in question . |
| 20 | Can I just ask a question to start with because I was messing around with the camera and was it that he ha that he had no private pension policies at all ? |
| 21 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 22 | Their Lordships accepted that there was no general duty to provide reasons but attached a caveat , that if the preponderance of reasons pointed in favour of taking action and the Minister gave no explanation for taking a different course , the court would infer that he had no good reason and that he was misusing his authority . |
| 23 | The Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevardnadze , said in Brussels that he had no specific details of the unrest but that any intervention by the security forces was highly regrettable . |
| 24 | At a meeting of the Moscow nobility on 30 March 1856 , while insisting that he had no immediate plans for Emancipation , Alexander delivered the famous warning : ‘ You yourselves know that the existing order of ruling over living souls can not remain unchanged . |
| 25 | While stating that there was now " no reason why non-nuclear-powered vessels can not call here " , he said that he had no immediate plansfor such a visit . |
| 26 | The jury … found that Constable Laurie was not actuated by malice or direct motive , but had actually been over-zealous ; that he had no reasonable and probable ground for believing that Roche 's house was used for betting , and that he did not honestly believe that he made bets with plaintiff . |
| 27 | In the case of the cable service operator , and the producer and director of the programme in question , the defendant must show that he neither knew nor reasonably suspected that the programme would contain the offending words , or , if he did know , that he had no reasonable opportunity to remove the offending words . |
| 28 | In general , de Gaulle 's rapport with Allied publics was remarkably good , especially in view of the fact that he had no prior experience of either country , spoke at best a halting English , and had to overcome systematic attempts by the governments to influence press coverage against him . |
| 29 | But in wartime everything was more difficult : building had ceased , building sites were closed and workmen were mobilized , so that he had no easy source of stone . |
| 30 | He would have liked to say I 'd rather you stayed , except that he had no real reason , or no reason he could give her easily . |