Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] no " in BNC.

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1 It may last no more than six months .
2 On the LME , however , it may mean no more than the matching of positions , since LME contracts are not " closed " , in the sense of being liquidated , until their prompt date .
3 Where there is no element of convergent or divergent movement along a strike-slip fault it may generate no significant landforms .
4 It may do no more than further entrench the conspiracy of silence , ’ Armstrong said .
5 ‘ But it may make no difference , ’ Nicholas said .
6 Should a Troll elect to vomit it may make no other attacks in hand-to-hand combat that turn .
7 It has been argued by Mancur Olson ( 1965 ) that there is often no incentive to go to the expense and trouble of joining a group , especially when the group is large , because it may make no difference to that particular individual .
8 Research in any of the sciences , including medicine , may be totally ‘ unproductive ’ ; it may have no immediate bearing on making , mending , or curing .
9 Often , even when an object can be positively identified as having religious significance , it may have no bearing on the situation in which it was found — many looted religious objects have been found in places far from where they were made and used .
10 On the other hand it may have no apparent effect on the child but may still have serious implications .
11 Similarly , it may take no more than a momentary pang of empathetic distress to convince me that if I could become as aware from the sufferer 's viewpoint as from my own I would be spontaneously moved to help him even to my own cost .
12 It may need no more than a discussion session , or a change of emphasis introduced at an appropriate point to allow this to be covered .
13 We should also observe that the error term in the regression , t , is a serially uncorrelated random error ; that is , it should exhibit no pattern since , under the hypothesis of rational expectations , it is the forecasting error .
14 " The principle behind substitution is that it should carry no environmental penalty , " he said .
15 But the essential distinction remains : whether the court should positively order treatment to be given or not to be given , or whether it should do no more than consider whether or not to authorise it , where authority is needed .
16 It should comprise no more than 10 pages listing key words linked to relevant PPGs and/or MPGs , with paragraph numbers given whenever possible .
17 It should need no stressing that even today , when more and more actors ( those in work ) are aiming at the regular working-day/mortgage belt , affairs , amours and just plain sex inside a company is not unknown .
18 It should have no flats , kinks or frays , and its elasticity should be minimal .
19 It should have no fewer than three and no more than five members .
20 Coun Jones had been urging Darlington councillors to stop the production coming to the town saying : ‘ If the borough council can ban something like the Chippendales , then it should have no hesitation of stopping a soft porn version of Swan Lake . ’
21 If the property being sold is the same as that which was purchased , then a suitable plan should be contained with the deeds and documents of title and it should prove no problem .
22 People have been scrambling up Cust 's Gully for over 100 years , and in dry conditions it should pose no problems — although it is not particularly attractive and I only included it because it was such a traditional route .
23 And it must pay no more than a reasonable service fee to agents .
24 Or it might say no sale goods exchanged .
25 He said you were gon na give him something but you did n't know how long , long it 'll last when I was in the kitchen you said I 'll put this on but I do n't know how long it 'll last no
26 It 'll mek no difference ti mi work 'ere , missus and after all , if a lass wants ti be wed , she must tek what the Good Lord offers . ’
27 It 'll arrive no doubt .
28 It 'll do no harm . ’
29 It 'll do no good .
30 ‘ Well , sister , it 'll do no harm .
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