Example sentences of "no [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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No Sentence
1 Information about the actual place is sparse , but an Orangutan Foundation representative told BBC WILDLIFE that there are no facilities and no expertise there to care for the orangs , and that the surrounding primary forest has been destroyed by fire and so is unsuitable as a release area .
2 His grandmother , living in luxury in the Plaza Hotel in Buenos Aires and grumbling because she had to wash her own stockings , claimed she had no money even to pay her own bills .
3 I 'm in no case now to make war on any marcher lord .
4 In its efforts to counteract these difficulties , the RSPB works closely with other organisations to support foreign bird protection societies , to help train their staff , and to help bring birds to people who have previously had no opportunity even to read a bird book .
5 These films are technically well produced and create an atmosphere of reality , useful for the student who has no opportunity actually to visit the library at the time of seeing the film .
6 But Ruth had no heart either to appreciate or to envy her mistress .
7 You 're in no condition yet to tackle the stairs . ’
8 There was no intention ever to remove these , nor the few that were established on the central ridge dominating the West Bank .
9 There 's no plaque there to remind the citizenry of the city 's civil warriors .
10 There is no attempt here to tell us how we should use words ; instead we get quotations from the work of various women which show how varied and creative definition has been , and how differently certain words appear from a feminist perspective .
11 When I say ‘ relationship ’ I mean this in its purely formal sense ; there is no attempt here to make any claim about possible causal relationships between ideas and practice .
12 My father made no attempt ever to control his rages even though he knew his condition .
13 No girl yet to spend his money — no misspent youth , he reached his goal
14 There was no guard there to check tickets .
15 In no mood now to finish her work , she stalked along to the kitchen .
16 Moreover , there is no room here to explore the comments further , to probe the reasoning behind them or to see to what extent they represent a wider consensus .
17 You 've no room here to keep anything at all . ’
18 No place else to put it .
19 His young wife says , ‘ You 're here because there 's no place else to hide . ’
20 These people will have no right to enter Britain and no right either to work or vote in Britain or elsewhere .
21 There is no need here to consider what is capable of amounting to a reasonable excuse , but it suffices to say that the defence is clearly of very limited scope .
22 As for the position of Asian women , the immigration laws show the government 's attitude — that there is no need even to pretend that they are equal .
23 There now seemed no need even to ask for help ; my needs were known , so I waited for a cure .
24 Because strong focusing preferences are applied only when appropriate , there is no need even to check that the dog biting the vet is a plausible event , since on linguistic grounds , no other possibilities exist .
25 I trudged up to the camp-site again , to find that there was no need even to look for driftwood for a fire .
26 So we sat there in the silence as if we knew each other well and had no need merely to talk ; and as a matter of fact it seemed in a way to suit the stillness of the day .
27 ( The prime difference between the two is that in the drama there is no need actually to hide — the hiding experience is evoked but not practised .
28 Presumably there 's so many songs in your repertoire that you you 've no need really to get a new one er you as artists might want to get a new one but you 've got so many er evergreens I mean you could go on for ever with just the evergreens could n't you ?
29 Because it does mean then that that traffic er on the western side of Harrogate can get out to the western relief road as there 's no need then to go on the urban roads in Harrogate .
30 But there was no need now to go further than the baby in its cradle .
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