Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it may make no difference , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 2 | It has been argued by Mancur Olson ( 1965 ) that there is often no incentive to go to the expense and trouble of joining a group , especially when the group is large , because it may make no difference to that particular individual . |
| 3 | Often , even when an object can be positively identified as having religious significance , it may have no bearing on the situation in which it was found — many looted religious objects have been found in places far from where they were made and used . |
| 4 | We should also observe that the error term in the regression , t , is a serially uncorrelated random error ; that is , it should exhibit no pattern since , under the hypothesis of rational expectations , it is the forecasting error . |
| 5 | Coun Jones had been urging Darlington councillors to stop the production coming to the town saying : ‘ If the borough council can ban something like the Chippendales , then it should have no hesitation of stopping a soft porn version of Swan Lake . ’ |
| 6 | It should have no flats , kinks or frays , and its elasticity should be minimal . |
| 7 | If the property being sold is the same as that which was purchased , then a suitable plan should be contained with the deeds and documents of title and it should prove no problem . |
| 8 | People have been scrambling up Cust 's Gully for over 100 years , and in dry conditions it should pose no problems — although it is not particularly attractive and I only included it because it was such a traditional route . |
| 9 | Or it might say no sale goods exchanged . |
| 10 | It 'll mek no difference ti mi work 'ere , missus and after all , if a lass wants ti be wed , she must tek what the Good Lord offers . ’ |
| 11 | It 'll arrive no doubt . |
| 12 | It 'll do no harm . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , sister , it 'll do no harm . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's cold , but as long as the baby 's well wrapped up it 'll do no harm . |
| 15 | ‘ It 'll do no good . |
| 16 | Commenting on its figures ( see page seven ) , Volmac Software Groep NV , 58%-owned by Cap Gemini Sogeti SA , which reported a 37.8% decline in 1992 net profits , said that in view of uncertain market conditions it could make no forecast for 1993 ; the net profit was depressed by extraordinary charges from the integration of Volmac and Cap Gemini 's Benelux operations ; the 7.4% fall in turnover exceeded the 6.1% decline in the number of employees ; the results were still better than expected and the shares jumped 19% on the Amsterdam stock exchange . |
| 17 | The sergeant nodded , deciding it could do no harm to concede a point he had already taken . |
| 18 | Tales of Tongan royal oarsmanship had recently spread as far afield as Hawaii and Tahiti and I reasoned that it could do no harm to mention my interest , albeit one or two decades old . |
| 19 | And then the evil was meant to flow into his own body , where it could do no harm because of the presence of God . |
| 20 | It could do no harm to have a temporary truce and it would be churlish to refuse to give the advice he wanted . |
| 21 | The secular arm could only be enlisted in specific cases against named and duly warned individuals ; it could offer no aid against those categories of offenders pronounced , in various general and local sentences , as excommunicate ipso facto . |
| 22 | More than ten years ago the Barclay report rejected the idea of a general social work council , as it could find no consensus in favour . |
| 23 | Kevin Dunion , FoE 's Scottish director , said he was delighted that Strathclyde had accepted that it could win no exemption from the European directive that bans sea dumping from the start of 1999 . |
| 24 | It would make no mistake . |
| 25 | It would make no sense to say that the dots in the picture had a Gestalt of themselves , but to apply this model to the brain and experience would be just like that ; for , if the experience just is a state of the brain , then there is no way in which the character of the experience can be explained as the result of some perspective on the brain . |
| 26 | I am doing my utmost to persuade my colleagues in the Council of Ministers that it would make no sense , for the European Community as well as this country , if the directives were promulgated in their present form . |
| 27 | It would make no sense to booby-trap the weapon in these circumstances . |
| 28 | ‘ If you came from just down the road it would make no difference . |
| 29 | It would make no difference to him . |
| 30 | It is true that it would make no difference whether under the old law the offence would have been false pretences or larceny by a trick , provided the charge was laid under section 15(1) . |