Example sentences of "it had no [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | How wretched it would be if , because it had no other solution to the problems of Iraq , the world pretended to believe him . |
2 | It had no other meaning . |
3 | Moscow 's decision to assume the economic burden of Cuba can be attributed to the fact that , by this stage , it had no other credible option in political terms , partly because of Khrushchev 's own extravagant statements of support for the Castro revolution , but largely because of the policies pursued by the United States . |
4 | The government initially claimed that it had no prior notice of the Commission 's intention to initiate proceedings , but it was later disclosed that this had been the subject of correspondence between the Commission and the Department of Transport . |
5 | It had no practical need to reach down further than the drought level of the river which had to leave a gap of at least two or three feet . |
6 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
7 | Cosla complained it had no extra resources to meet the requirement , and suggested the registers would be unworkable , raising complicated questions of liability if land was found to be contaminated . |
8 | The agency claimed that , having stated as recently as Sept. 17 that it had no unreleased BNL material , it had since discovered the existence of a series of transmissions from the CIA 's Rome station which indicated that the Rome headquarters of BNL had authorized some of the Iraqi loans . |
9 | As it turned out , it blocked just those actions of adrenaline which Ahlquist had grouped with the beta receptors , and it had no appreciable effect on the alpha receptors . |
10 | It had no private property , could save nothing and bequeath nothing ; as a result , revenues were expended for the common good . |
11 | Jezrael could see that her personal data was offering the captain a wide range of possibilities but it had no personal significance for Chesarynth 's little sister . |
12 | It had no identifiable melody , it was just beautifully melodic , rising and falling gently as it carried him along . |
13 | When the Association was founded in 1957 , it had no paid staff and only £10 in its bank account . |
14 | After the ceremony , she and Ludovico went to Chiesa Santo Spirito , at the end of their road , where Ludovico had arranged for them to be blessed , explaining to her that it had no religious significance and did not endanger her non-Catholic soul . |
15 | It had no inside lavatory . |
16 | It had no individual membership within a centrally-controlled structure and thus no means , or desire , to exclude those who wished to join . |
17 | But it still suffered from several of the defects of the medieval Exchequer : it was very slow ; it had not the machinery to expand the available sources of revenue ; and it had no effective control over expenditure . |
18 | But because Hinkley C was seen as a virtual ‘ replica ’ of the Sizewell design , the NII had made it clear from the start that it had no major reservations . |
19 | Once a consensus had been reached , it had no legal standing , but Citrine expected the chairmen to go back to their own Boards and secure acceptance of the common policy . |
20 | The government , publishing its reply on the same day , stated that it had no legal liability to pay compensation , rejected the report 's assertions that actions fell short of the standards appropriate to the regulator , and further asserted that the general handling of the licensing of the Barlow Clowes partnership was careful and considerate . |
21 | The regulatory role of the Department of Trade and Industry in respect of Barlow Clowes had been sharply criticized in reports both of an independent inquiry ( published on Oct. 20 , 1988 ) , and of the Ombudsman ( published on Dec. 19 , 1989 ) ; on the latter date the government had announced that in the exceptional circumstances it would make ex gratia payments ( totalling some #150,000,000 ) to all investors who had suffered loss , while stressing that it had no legal liability to pay compensation . |
22 | The flood tide , though it had no real terrors for Woodie , caused him to fret impatiently , because Rochester , in his opinion , had beautiful lines below water , and these would not now be visible again for twelve hours . |
23 | Unfortunately the worst thing about this unsticky adhesive was that , for five years , it had no perceptible application . |
24 | THE London Ambulance Service said yesterday that it had no immediate plans to revert to its gremlin-plagued computer call-out system . |
25 | In the last years of the Soviet Union and in the new republics the militia found itself dealing with a level of public demonstration — and sometimes disorder — of which it had no previous experience , and it did not always deal efficiently with them . |
26 | It was disappointing that it had no significant effect on the tachycardia , but this may be helped by more sparing use of hyoscine butylbromide . |
27 | fl EFTA , like the EEC , involved the gradual reduction of internal trading restrictions , but it had no common external tariff , was geographically-scattered , had a much smaller population , and was economically dominated by Britain ( which represented two-thirds of EFTA 's industrial output ) . |
28 | For much of its history psychobiology has been a subject ahead of its time , often asking questions for which it had no meaningful answers . |
29 | At independence in 1961 and during the period immediately afterwards , the new TANU government was concerned that it had no direct voice in the press . |
30 | Syria , which signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) in 1969 , had previously declined to conclude such an agreement on the grounds that it had no nuclear installations . |