Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment it was the traditional tale of going up to Jackson 's at 10 in the morning after an all-night session at Dobell 's — wine we drank in those days , Poppet , wine that was wine not this filthy MUCK — and demanding double portions of oysters all round and when it came to pay no one had a penny , so Dobell , who even then still had the charm of a boy of twenty , and a slim waist to go with it , said he would bring in one of the engravings from his collection , and Gaston , who always recognised a gentleman — not like the CLODS who run hostelries nowadays — with tears in his eyes said it was an honour , an honour to serve Mr Dobell and his friends . |
| 2 | It seemed to have no power to affect the father . |
| 3 | It decided to take no part on the footing that sufficient documents for prosecution purposes had already been obtained from the defendants by the Crown Prosecuting Service . |
| 4 | The decisiveness and fresh conviction it brought made no difference to my theology and very little difference to my choices and values seen from the outside . |
| 5 | It appeared to make no difference whether the borough had been charge-capped . |
| 6 | It was an essential element of the cause of action in such circumstances that the governmental plaintiff establish that the public interest would suffer detriment in the absence of a remedy ; ( 9 ) in failing to have proper regard to the legislative purpose of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 by which Parliament could not have intended to authorise a local authority to bring libel proceedings , a fortiori where it had suffered no actual financial loss ; ( 10 ) having regard to the scale of costs likely to be incurred it could never be in the interests of the inhabitants of the area for the local authority to mount an action for libel in such circumstances , and certainly was not in their interests in the present case where no injury was alleged to the superannuation fund . |
| 7 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 8 | Savory Milln should have been aware that Mr Ferriday would try and cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to , yet it had made no inquiries as to the source of the £13.5m or how Mr Ferriday had managed to meet his own underwriting obligations . |
| 9 | Storage Technology Corp declined to comment on market rumours that its Iceberg high-speed disk array is about to be completed : it noted that it had made no new statements on Iceberg 's progress since last November when it said that beta site testing will extend into the second half of the current year . |
| 10 | She had tried to imagine Tommy Allen coming into the bedroom and taking Fred 's place , but it had made no difference . |
| 11 | It had played no small part in tranquillizing things at home and inspiring ‘ national will to victory ’ , and that was earnestly acknowledged by the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 12 | Formed nationally in 1900 it had played no role in pioneering local labour representation ; not until the early interwar years did it emerge with quite remarkable rapidity as the dominant political force in West Ham . |
| 13 | It had happened — and nothing worse was likely to happen — and it had done no harm . |
| 14 | The Crown admitted that the judge 's direction as to the effect of good character was flawed in the manner contended for by the defendant but , adopting the view of the Court of Appeal , while admitting the error , contended that it had caused no injustice . |
| 15 | So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love . |
| 16 | Latterly , however , it had become no more than a framework for the recording of successes , with little attention being paid to problems such as the intensification of production or the improvement of food supplies . |
| 17 | It had retained no suitable system of books and records , failed to implement an appropriate system of internal controls and it had lacked appropriate segregation of functions . |
| 18 | There 's something new in the nest said the snow bright polar bear , I saw its shadow on a glacier as it had left no paw marks there . |
| 19 | Looking up , it had seemed no height at all . |
| 20 | Take the case of a floppy disk drive 's sudden failure to read a disk when previously it had shown no proclivity to such failing . |
| 21 | On Oct. 26 a 40 member-international observer group from the Washington-based National Democratic Institute ( NDI ) headed by a former Turkish Foreign Minister , Vahit Halefoglu , said that it had found no evidence to substantiate Bhutto 's allegations of large-scale electoral fraud . |
| 22 | A Geneva-based consultancy hired by the United Nations to investigate the allegations subsequently reported that it had found no evidence that any hazardous waste had been exported to Somalia . |
| 23 | If it had happened no doubt he would have done . ’ |