Example sentences of "it [vb -s] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My local authority , quite rightly , takes on those children because they are in need , but it receives no financial assistance to cope with them . |
| 2 | The report has been attacked by Friends of the Earth , which insists that it represents no new departure . |
| 3 | That looks incompatible with gaucherie , and perhaps is , but it represents no more than the incompatibilities that individuals daily enact in their own lives . |
| 4 | Firstly , it represents no more than a proposal for reform of the internal structure of the public company and not an accurate description of how the board at present functions in such a company . |
| 5 | It represents no less than a $250M business sector and is still growing healthily . |
| 6 | Certainly it involves no unexplained notion of a lawlike statement . |
| 7 | However , if an application is made to the court for an order requiring the trustee to summon a meeting to consider a resolution for his removal as trustee , the court may , if it thinks no sufficient cause has been shown for the application , dismiss it but not until after an ex parte hearing of the applicant ( r 6.132(2) ) . |
| 8 | Although this continues to be an illuminating fact in understanding the causes of mental handicap , it offers no real basis for prevention . |
| 9 | With regard to the fifteen inch speaker , Larry Hartke has stated that it offers no real performance advantages over Hartke 's renowned tens , but has been introduced to satisfy a specific demand . |
| 10 | Whatever form it takes , it offers no personal recognition or status , and nor should it . |
| 11 | It offers no magic formula to improve the sight but describes activities and materials shown to be motivating in helping pupils to pay attention to visual stimuli . |
| 12 | However , he couches his explanation for these differences not simply at the level of what actual language users ‘ mean ’ , that is in relation to particular cultural practice and institutions ( within which the concept of ‘ relative objectivity ’ might make some sense ) , but instead at the level of what they ‘ say ’ , that is in relation to ‘ the lexical and grammatical structure of languages ’ , at the level of ‘ language-systems ’ , which appears to assume again the notion of absolute ‘ objectivity ’ , since , as we have seen , it offers no cultural context in which to make sense of such systems . |
| 13 | In the sculpture it is difficult to determine what stage of metamorphosis this shape-changer has reached as it fits no equivalent passage in the poem . |
| 14 | When burned , it produces no harmful exhaust , merely water . " |
| 15 | The superiority of Macbeth over Measure for Measure in this respect is that it needs no external moral force , such as the Duke , to ‘ Unfold the evil , which is here wrapp 'd up/In countenance . ’ |
| 16 | It needs no great imagination to gauge the effect of all this upon the church 's pastoral mission , particularly when we bear in mind the numbers of royal presentations cited above . |
| 17 | If it does not , or when it files and gives notice that it is satisfied , or the court on application decides it needs no further information , then only is a return day fixed by the court . |
| 18 | It needs no physical medium between the two stations ( so called wireless communication ) . |
| 19 | It looks no unlike veal , but perhaps pinker , and has an unparalleled delicacy of texture . |
| 20 | ‘ It looks no neat and lush . |
| 21 | Across the river on the northern side it looks no brighter than over here . |
| 22 | It is crammed with incidents involving Rangers and Celtic players but it has no great love for either club . |
| 23 | What was it Dr Johnson said — ‘ Love is only one of many passions and it has no great influence on the sum of life ’ . ’ |
| 24 | Her supporters , however , claim that she has returned the party to the essential verities of sound money , lower rates of income tax , strong government , and rolling back government from areas where it has no useful role to play . |
| 25 | It has no present claim to fame and its longest guidebook entry are the words in Domesday . |
| 26 | Soft water is usually acid in nature , it has no alkaline hardness salts . |
| 27 | The right side remains right even if it has no ultimate hope at all . |
| 28 | As with The Death of Nelson , The Gamblers , though it has no specific source , is a pastiche on Italian Renaissance art . |
| 29 | As far as I have been able to find out , it has no specific connection with Bristol but is named after Nonsuch Palace , which was built in Surrey near Hampton Court . |
| 30 | It has no general knowledge source to aid the process of disambiguation . |