Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb -s] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not try to turn a Scot into an Englishman , or suppose a recruit 's upbringing has no bearing on his suitability for officer training , or pretend that men and woman have identical abilities . |
| 2 | Holden 's story contains no suspense , while Lucy 's grips the reader totally ; for example she ‘ forgets ’ to inform the reader for six chapters that ‘ Dr. John ’ is in fact her cousin whom she has not seen for ten years ! |
| 3 | He adds that the Greek government 's assessment makes no allowance for evaporation and calculates the reduction in the amount of water reaching the wetlands on the basis of the present total flow rather than on the present volume reaching Missolonghi . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman 's question makes no sense . |
| 5 | If the claim that they all legitimate the existing order is to be more than a dogma it must be refined , and Althusser 's work offers no suggestion as to how this is to be done . |
| 6 | Nearly two-thirds of the world 's population has no access to electricity . |
| 7 | The use of these coaches was mainly on secondary services , then branch and local , and in a lot of cases in their last years as workmen 's , although 1622 's record makes no comment about this . |
| 8 | His work was frequently illustrated , not only in magazines but also in books ; in William Johnstone 's Creative Art in Britain ( 1950 ) , in Herbert Read 's small but significant survey , Contemporary British Art ( 1951 ) , and in Wyndham Lewis 's The Demon of Progress in the Arts ( 1954 ) where his large painting of the dice-playing soldiers in the Crucifixion scene , The Gamblers ( Colour Plate XX ) , was reproduced with the observation : ‘ The symbolic power of John Minton 's picture requires no comment . ’ |
| 9 | NCD 's share shows no sign of slipping , says Greg Blatnik of the X Business Group , even though the system vendors are all likely to increase their share — one reason might be that it 's more important for NCD systems to work with a variety of hosts — Peter Wellings of NCD 's UK distributor Xanadu claims that DEC , for instance , has had its X-terminal success mostly confined to existing DEC installations . |
| 10 | " Absit diabolus " : the strength of Nietzsche 's feelings needs no commentary . |
| 11 | It is elicited by being ‘ pushed around ’ and yields the feeling that one 's self exercises no control over the circumstances surrounding it and the destiny awaiting it ’ . |
| 12 | The Troll 's slime has no effect on hits from shooting . |
| 13 | It must be concluded , despite the ingenuity of Lanham 's thesis , that Hale 's rationale has no foundation . |
| 14 | The Hiatt 's brochure contains no reference to leg cuffs . |
| 15 | AFTER a bloody year , Liberia 's mayhem shows no sign of letting up . |
| 16 | The major advantage of this technique is that the microprocessor 's program requires no information about motor or drive parameters , and needs no initial Setting.up or subsequent adjustment . |
| 17 | This particular America 's cup bears no comparison to the trophy they failed to capture at The Belfry . |
| 18 | But the home secretary 's statement gives no hint of the continuing dispute between broadcasters and the Home Office over the changes to allocations in the VHF band . |
| 19 | Kavanagh 's book makes no mention of Katherine 's name . |
| 20 | The Labour party 's document makes no reference to students . |
| 21 | So a widow who defers retirement and carries on drawing the widow 's allowance gets no increase in her pension . |
| 22 | Unlike many of her characters , Agatha Christie 's popularity shows no sign of dieing . |
| 23 | He strikes us as right ; but Lipsey 's diagram bears no trace of this distinction between generalizations and causal laws . |
| 24 | In short , it means a government in which Mr Ashdown 's party has no share . |