Example sentences of "had no [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The medical school of St Mary 's Hospital , like the other London medical schools , was constitutionally part of the University of London , but was in fact academically isolated , and such research as might be undertaken had no facility for difficult chemical investigations . |
| 2 | . My daughters , as well as many of my friends , wished me to visit them , but I had no heart for any society … |
| 3 | I had no pity for these complacent victims . |
| 4 | I had no preparation for that at all . |
| 5 | It was good of you to come at such short notice and lucky for me that you had no date for this evening , as you so easily might have done . ’ |
| 6 | And you not had no revision for that ? |
| 7 | The Khmer Rouge had no mercy for any Vietnamese they took prisoner , and many Vietnamese soldiers preferred to kill themselves rather than be captured . |
| 8 | Although he had no figures for 1992 Unix sales worldwide , he did note that France normally comprises 16% of European Unix revenues . |
| 9 | They said they had no plans for another referendum in May . |
| 10 | ( Scotland , with its own separate generating board , had no plans for nuclear power after the Torness AGR . ) |
| 11 | The fact that he had no licence for this particular gun was , she said , an oversight . |
| 12 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 13 | Archbishop Turpin had no use for blunt instruments : he wields lance and sword like the rest and the only hint of his ecclesiastical status is his dying blessing on Roland and the fallen . |
| 14 | Cobden 's hero was the trader , who had no use for protective tariffs which impeded the expansion of commerce between nations . |
| 15 | It was things like that gave you the feeling he had no use for white men or our ways . |
| 16 | She had no gift for academic work ; she simply longed to be able to dedicate her life to it . |
| 17 | Germany , they had no focus for advanced training in science and technology . |
| 18 | She recognized that this feeling was in part a hangover from her schooldays , when her occasional invitations to friends had invariably resulted in sessions of strained discomfort , presided over by the disapprobation , however concealed , of her mother ; she had no precedent for successful hospitality . |
| 19 | He had no taste for further encounters with either Cunningham or his wife . |
| 20 | Richie had no time for Hawaiian polytheism . |
| 21 | Megan Browne had no time for professional snobbery , but she was adamant about the need for professional skills . |
| 22 | I had no time for mundane talks such as ‘ How To Keep A Bee ’ or ‘ Rose Pruning Can Be Fun ’ , no matter how much a specialist the speaker might be . |
| 23 | But I had no time for that sort of dalliance . |
| 24 | But Joicey had no time for such pleasantries . |
| 25 | But liberal public opinion , as expressed through the Peace Ballot , had no time for such cautious realism . |
| 26 | But Berdichev had no time for such ‘ niceties ’ . |
| 27 | Laura had no time for such abstractions . |
| 28 | She had no time for any of them . |
| 29 | Carl had no time for these , or possibly our parents failed him by not encouraging him in that direction . |
| 30 | A new hermit was supposed to get a licence or blessing from his bishop , but Rolle had no time for these forms . |