Example sentences of "who [vb past] no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Faced by a prosecution concerned primarily with political advancement , confronted by intimidated witnesses who produced no convincing evidence , and his guilt attested by a jury of eleven Campbells and four others , James Stewart was sentenced to hang at Ballachulish ferry on 8 November 1752 . |
2 | Joseph Chamberlain as Chairman of the Local Government Board in 1885 was responsible for the Medical Relief ( Disqualifications Removal ) Act which removed the pauper stigma — disfranchisement — from inmates of Poor Law infirmaries who made no other demands on poor relief and increased both use of the infirmaries by respectable working people and their willingness as ratepayers to finance them . |
3 | The horse was examined by a vet , who found no serious injuries . |
4 | You could n't blame Dr Eban , who played no small part in his country 's survival with his jet-setting diplomacy , for sounding a touch smug . |
5 | Most of the counterfeit currency used by the DEA was supplied by Monzer al-Kassar , who received no separate payment for this service as it was covered by his regular CIA stipend deposited to his credit at the Katherein Bank , Vienna ( A/c No. 50307495 ) and at the Swiss Bank Corporation in Geneva ( A/c No. 510230C-86 ) . |
6 | Ironically , it was McFadden 's Cliftonville team-mate — the virtually-unknown Chris Cullen — who showed no such hesitancy when he signed for Linfield towards the end of the 1991-92 season . |
7 | I felt even more fearful than usual faced with this clever inquisitive boy who showed no further desire to undo my blouse and who was only interested in the incongruity of my relationship with Syl . |
8 | Interestingly 20 of 23 severe oesophagitis patients smoked or drank heavily and of those who claimed no such history one had scleroderma and another may not have disclosed full details . |
9 | The finding that adaptation is more profound in the LVF than the RVF , on the other hand , would be consistent with the results of Meyer ( 1976 ) , who found a stronger McCollough effect in the LVF , but would not support the findings of Beaton and Blakemore ( 1981 ) who observed no hemispheric difference in extent of adaptation or orientation selectivity in either of their two well-practised subjects . |
10 | It took well over an hour for the first 48 delegates — who included no Soviet bloc nation , nor India , nor Burma , nor either of the Chinas , nor a scattering of other countries who could not bring themselves to accept Japan 's word — to file up to the podium to sign . |
11 | Perhaps not surprisingly , we have copious evidence throughout the period of women who felt no sexual pleasure because of the fear of pregnancy , and there is here some indication that working class women may have internalised middle class ideas of passionlessness and its correlate : male sensuality . |
12 | In an age when all Unionists professed some form of religious belief and when Anglicanism was the assumption of those who professed no other form of Christianity in England , some of this may be taken to be assumption rather than conviction . |
13 | Former athletes who took no further exercise were found to have the same risk factor for a heart attack as those who had never been active . |
14 | Brenda pointed this out to Albert , who took no remedial action . |
15 | The bird was returned by a badly shaken youth , who gave no more trouble and , for a few hours , I was Dad 's blue-eyed boy . |
16 | This can be assessed by his utter contempt of all people who possessed no academic qualifications . |
17 | Water was comparatively plentiful , except in times of drought , but the pools and streams were infested with the parasites which caused bilharzia , a debilitating disease which infected nearly all the local people , who had no alternative water supply for washing . |
18 | Men with periodontitis had more than a twofold increased risk of dying compared with men who had no periodontal disease at baseline . |
19 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
20 | This compared with 26 per cent of the women without an intimate tie with husband or boyfriend , but who reported a confiding relationship with another person ( seen at least weekly ) , and with 41 per cent of those who had a confidante seen less than weekly or who had no such relationship at all . |
21 | Unlike Leeds ' evil hardcore who had no such media approval . |
22 | Edwardians who had no such inhibitions |
23 | Another report , by the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance , provided statistics revealing the number of old-age pensioners who had no other income , apart from their old-age pension or supplementary benefit : 1 in 9 married couples , 1 in 4 single men , and 1 in 3 single women had no additional income whatsoever . |
24 | Other policy issues that were observed and which need discussion and consideration included : the problem of sustaining confidence in the livestock market for those ( many of whom were family or part-time farmers ) who had no other enterprise options ; the need for an examination of the labour unit figure at present used in deciding eligibility for improvement grants with a view to its removal — those at present debarred from receiving grant ( because their unit is not big enough ) were unable to carry out improvements to develop the farm ; the case for considering what effect would be achieved by placing a limit ( e. g. 500 standard man days ) on the size of unit eligible for grant and guaranteed prices — such a limit might ensure the future of family units which were under economic pressure for amalgamation and growth of the size of units ; the need for assistance with the building of a second house to aid resettlement and hand-over problems . |
25 | Understandably , he was curious as to the reason for my enquiries , so I told him you were a distant relative , a spinster who had no other relatives and who might wish to get in touch with him . |
26 | Shaikhs collected money from members of their lineages to support those who had no other support , or who had heavy expenses of certain kinds ( educational or medical , but not business expenses ) which they could not meet ; but these were in no sense an attempt to redistribute resources . |
27 | The difference between the studies may be explained by the fact that we adopted more stringent criteria for assessing H pylori state and also assessed gastric function only in H pylori negative patients with DU who had no other explanation for their ulcer disease . |
28 | If someone were to work part time for a corner shop keeper who had no other employees there would be no way of collecting tax at that employment . |
29 | The House of Lords held that the surveyor was discharging the duties of both expert and quasi-arbitrator , and was not in the position of an independent arbitrator who had no other duty which involved acting in the interests of one of the parties , and that accordingly in so acting he was not guilty of collusion or bad faith . |
30 | Members who had no other form of ‘ social security ’ available to them desired the benefits . |