Example sentences of "and has no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I call it retrospective censorship because the BSC will not preview programmes and has no powers to ban programmes . |
| 2 | Deriding the value of the committee of the regions , he tried to demolish Mr Salmond 's case for entering the Government lobby in exchange for SNP representation on the European committee , by repeating the comments he made on it when he was the party 's foreign affairs spokesman : ‘ I remember saying , with the approval of my leader , that it is merely an advisory body , advising another advisory body and has no powers of any kind . ’ |
| 3 | He scarcely attended school and has no skills . |
| 4 | This grotesque bird is specialised for taking honey from wild bees ' nests and has no feathers on its head . |
| 5 | A smile like that of a child who had been caught stealing sugar and has no choice but to confess lit the Friar 's face . |
| 6 | ‘ I prefer Mr. Carus 's submission that an Orthodox rabbi is pursuing a vocation and has no choice but to accept the Chief Rabbi 's disciplinary decisions . |
| 7 | He is however out injured at the mo and has no sign of returning . |
| 8 | Pity he ca n't sing , act , and has no charm , he reflected . |
| 9 | So , a person with a higher than normal cholesterol concentration carries a relatively low risk if he/she does not smoke , has low blood pressure , is not overweight , exercises regularly and has no history of heart disease in the family . |
| 10 | The scheme is less helpful for the person who is handicapped from youth and has no experience of work , and it is not always suitable for those who are unused to and ill-suited for industrial work , for example , those from clerical work or service trades . |
| 11 | The 16- or 17-year-old is conclusively presumed to be ‘ Gillick competent ’ or , alternatively , the test of ‘ Gillick competence ’ is bypassed and has no relevance . |
| 12 | I 'm sure I could find him now , but I have made a vow that I am not going to tell anyone where he is , for the man is innocent and has no hope of proving that at the moment . |
| 13 | The Community , he says , depends on information from member states and has no way of checking the information that it receives . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'll remember , my lord , ’ said Iago , rising with alacrity from the grass , ‘ that he is but an earl in the making and has no Latin . ’ |
| 15 | The only problem is , she is Ugandan and speaks very little English , has no idea how to get home and has no money for transport . |
| 16 | Hansford still plays at 70 and has no plans to retire . |
| 17 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 18 | MMT operates purely in the UK South East where Haines claims 2% to 3% market share , and has no plans to set up a regional office up North until this market is saturated , although an acquisition is possible . |
| 19 | Goodnight discounts rumours that his company could n't actually get a version of SAS to work on that particular platform , saying the firm is n't working on such a port now , and has no plans to do any other Motorola Inc 680X0 implementations besides the Unix one it offers currently . |
| 20 | The following might be regarded as excessive restrictions : ( 1 ) an attempt to prevent a qualified solicitor from setting up a specialist practice in a field in which his former firm has never before undertaken work and has no plans to start accepting instructions ; ( 2 ) an attempt to prevent an outgoing partner from accepting instructions from any person or firm ( whether or not a client or former client of his former firm ) within a prescribed area ; ( 3 ) a general area restraint where the outgoing partner 's former firm has its offices in a location where competition is already intense . |
| 21 | He lives alone and has no relatives in the city . |
| 22 | She 's very warm and has no sense of ‘ I 'm a princess so I will keep my distance from you ’ . |
| 23 | Is it not in fact much more extraordinary that our minister appears to find such a statement positively generous and reassuring and has no sense of its presumption ? |
| 24 | She is near the age we were Ellen when we first went into service and has no idea how things should be done . |
| 25 | The Official Receiver has not heard from the family and has no idea where they are , but assumes they are on the road . |
| 26 | He never wears a watch whether racing or training , never records his mileage , and has no idea what his personal bests are over any time or distance . |
| 27 | I sometimes find myself using them yet long years you know when I thought I 'd forgotten them and any younger person just looks at me in amazement and has no idea what I 'm talking about . |
| 28 | Monotony is often caused because the voice is ‘ all on one note ’ and has no change of tone . |
| 29 | If , on the other hand , a person decides to invest in a company by taking debentures ( a loan made by the investor to the company which is normally ‘ secured ’ ) that person is not a member of the company and has no involvement in the running of the company . |
| 30 | The path is unmistakable except in deep snow , when it should not be attempted , and has no difficulties other than unremitting steepness . |