Example sentences of "it had no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Libya was still a Kingdom in those days but it had no aviation legislation , so the entire investigation was conducted in accordance with Annex 13 , though with considerable emphasis on the British interpretation of it . |
| 2 | It had no lights of its own , but the lights from the room behind glinted on its bits of tinsel . |
| 3 | During World War II MI6 produced few worthwhile results , largely because it had no agents in place before Hitler occupied the whole of Europe . |
| 4 | The association said it had no choice but to shoot hundreds more emaciated Merino sheep among a flock of 72,000 kept on land capable of sustaining only 17,000 sheep . |
| 5 | The council says it had no choice … jobs are being cut to help maintain services as they struggle to balance the budget . |
| 6 | Ongoing regulation of RIEs is now very low key , to the point where , when a major trading scandal broke on the London Commodities Exchange ( then known as " London Fox , in 1991 , SIB indicated that it had no responsibility for the way the exchange operated . |
| 7 | Lavoisier 's chemistry had a new language , but it had no system of symbols like the Arabic numerals . |
| 8 | A government official said the US trade representative , Mickey Kantor , had ‘ decided to cancel the talks when the EC indicated it had no flexibility . ’ |
| 9 | It had no adversary or coalition relationship with similarly organized parties . |
| 10 | The BBC had no comment to make about the deepening row and said it had no knowledge of any plans to oust him . |
| 11 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 12 | Although developed as a mass movement , it had no leadership cult , and despite William Joyce 's scar , confrontation with socialists was small beer compared with the castor oil politics of Italy in the 1920s . |
| 13 | It had no windows ; neither did Hayman . |
| 14 | We chartered a STOL ( short take-off and landing ) aircraft from the Summer Institute of Linguistics , a missionary organisation , and flew to Loreto , which from the map appeared to be a promising area for collecting as it had no roads and therefore no colonists . |
| 15 | It had no guts left in it . |
| 16 | This was always termed ‘ the dresser ’ even though it had no back of its own ; china was stored there , cups and jugs hanging from hooks . |
| 17 | Yeah , I I wrote the thing as you remember about eighteen months ago , but it had no conflict in it you know we 're all the same and stories must have conflict , so I got the house to burst the ceiling on the wife |
| 18 | It had no station nameplate , just a platform with two metal advertisements for Mazawattee Tea and Bibby 's Foods , and it could only be approached by trespassing across a farmer 's field . |
| 19 | Japan 's stimulus to the regional economy — it had no resources , except human capital — it is now the non-Communist world 's second most important industrial power ; |
| 20 | It had no orthodoxy , unlike the European social-democratic parties . |
| 21 | That was before planning was controlled by law , and it had no conditions attached . |
| 22 | But it had no relevance , and its guardians remained mute ten years ago , when bombs , with the United States ' and allied governments ' blessing , fell like rain on women and children in Cambodia ( Shawcross 1979 ) , or when the same governments aid and support other political/military regimes exercising mass terror and partial genocide against a subjugated people ( Chomsky and Herman 1979a , 1979b ) . |
| 23 | As far as she could tell it had no relevance to her own predicament . |
| 24 | Except to note that now that the right honourable member for Chesterfield is publishing his former speeches as a video , it is rather a cheap operation to come and repeat them in the chamber er rather than putting them out er for public consumption there are places where he could repeat the kind of speeches just given , unfortunately the government is closing most of them down at the moment and putting the cut the inhabitants out in the community er but it had no relevance to the er the subject we 're dealing with today . |
| 25 | Labour leader Coun John Williams accused Coun Richmond of hypocrisy and said in the past when Labour had debated South Africa the Tories had said it had no relevance for Darlington . |
| 26 | The Forestry Commission expressed the hope that the study would generate wide debate but stressed that it had no competence to formulate overall forestry policy , which was a matter for the government . |
| 27 | This was set to speed 1 and it had no problem delivering the water to the filter . |
| 28 | It had no curtains , no sign above the door , the door was not wide and welcoming , the forecourt was dirty , and there was at least one broken pane in each window . |
| 29 | It had no teeth . |
| 30 | On the West German law prohibiting military sales to zones of conflict , he said : ‘ If such a law exists , it had no influence at all on our contractual relationship . |