Example sentences of "make no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But she knew that any attempt at this sort of seductive sophistication would be laughably incongruous coming from her quiet , ordinary little self , and in any case she had made no serious plans to leave , so she simply said steadily , ‘ That 's very nice of you , Dr Russell , but I have n't fully worked out my plans yet , and if I do leave I 'll probably sign on with a nursing agency .
2 Graeme Connal had an especially good game at third while Peter Smith and David Hay 's made no serious mistakes .
3 Patsy has made no emotional demands on Shanti at all .
4 He is now 10.5 months old and has made no developmental progress since the time of his injury which he sustained at the age of four weeks .
5 In the meantime more than a thousand miles of rivers had been made navigable , but these made no noticeable change in the landscape .
6 So we do n't want to be any under any illusions about that , and the same can be applied to the fact that we have made no real provision for nursery education , that we were in trouble over special needs in this county , that was a a requirement to restore services that were well below the S S A on Social Services , and we really all this er this er , new administration has done , has been brought those up , those services up to what would have been regarded as a quite an unacceptable level with most of the the the authorities in this country .
7 Certainly the letters he had written home had made no great fuss about the child 's death .
8 Mrs Pitman has also made no firm decision regarding The Illywhacker .
9 The University said tonight the governing body at Somerville had made no firm decision on admitting male students today .
10 The University said tonight the governing body at Somerville had made no firm decision on admitting male students today .
11 Byles J. thought that he had not because he had made no such request .
12 Tommaso 's gaze flickered over her , appraisingly , and he had made no such reckoning of Caterina , as Davide grasped .
13 The United Kingdom has made no such declaration .
14 I have lived in the same flat for 2½ years , and so far I 've made no new friends at all .
15 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 .
16 The Season opens in May , and apart from the fixed Luxembourg dates we 've made no other announcements . ’
17 But these signals did not reach AFHQ until the morning of the next day , 15 May , long after Robertson had sent his response to McCreery 's AC/189 which had only asked for " immediate steps " to be taken over the approach of Army Group E , and which had made no specific reference to Croats .
18 Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest .
19 While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so .
20 We have made no formal objection to the to Policy E two in indicating in in many respects the department is er regional office is content for the issues to be erm as to the need for the strategic policy to be debated E I P .
21 Soviet leaders have made no direct comment about events in Eastern Europe — except to welcome reformist changes when they happen .
22 Michael Pumfrey had spent part of his childhood in Cullbridge , though the existence of Burleigh School had made no particular impression on him at the time .
23 USL said it was currently evaluating its position over the University of California at Berkeley , but had as yet made no public announcements .
24 The Black Country Development Corporation has begun proceedings to buy the pub but it has made no public statement giving its reasons .
25 ‘ In the nature of things most respondents applications for discovery in aid of restraint orders would be able to rely upon the privilege against self-incrimination and the fact that Parliament has made no special provision in this regard suggests that , in that context , restrictions upon the use which can be made of the information were accepted as being effective .
26 Despite holding plenty of cash , Cofir has made no significant acquisitions recently .
27 Øster wrote in the introduction to his paper that the publication of Gairdner 's article nearly 20 years earlier seemed to have made no significant impression on clinical practice .
28 Unfortunately , a number of LDCs ' governments squandered their funds on consumer goods imports and uneconomic projects which made no recognisable increase in their countries ' productive capacities .
29 Yet the Bolsheviks made no political capital out of the recent past .
30 During that autumn ( of 1937 ) he attended a few more commemorative occasions but made no political speeches .
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