Example sentences of "and [verb] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " To put in repair " is sometimes used and imposes no greater obligation than " to repair " any more than to keep " in repair " , " in good repair " , " in sufficient repair " or " in tenantable repair " ( Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe v McOscar [ 1924 ] 1 KB 716 ) . |
| 2 | He was a true friend to sport , and cared no less for the manner in which success was achieved than for success itself . |
| 3 | This water had been there a very long time , and smelled no better than it should . |
| 4 | Bonds made in this way are extremely transparent , bubble-free and introduce no dimensional errors into final lapping . |
| 5 | The use of ozone as a reactant in absorption systems is relatively new but one increasing in popularity as it reportedly requires lower dose rates and reaction times , is less susceptible to changes in water temperature and acidity or alkalinity and produces no harmful by-products . |
| 6 | According to BP Bitor , which markets the fuel in Europe , Orimulsion contains 20 per cent less carbon dioxide than coal and emits no more nitrogen oxide ( a prime cause of acid rain ) than natural gas . |
| 7 | Freezing on the trunk , they are now completely hidden from view and make no tell-tale sound . |
| 8 | It does not follow that potential customers will automatically beat a path to the door of the firms which return home and make no further efforts to build on contacts . |
| 9 | Hearing no other radio communication and seeing no other aircraft to his left or right , he turned finals . |
| 10 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 11 | The post-privatisation product looks and tastes no different ; but its price everywhere is sharply higher . |
| 12 | Some Catholic schools in the area have no contact with the RUC 's Community Relations Branch , others do so when the police are in plain clothes and bring no uniformed neighbourhood police with them , while yet others restrict the lecture topics which the community relations police cam address . |
| 13 | Fibreoptic bronchoscopy was performed and revealed no obstructive bronchial lesion . |
| 14 | As to the wider dissemination of culture , the few cells that had been active in this respect seemed to equate success with the regular dispatch of newspapers and made no personal contacts to follow this up . |
| 15 | When they stepped out on to the track some twenty paces from him he only turned his head slowly to glance at them and made no other movement . |
| 16 | The committee recognised that both ‘ f ’ and ‘ ph ’ spellings were widely used in English texts and made no specific recommendation . |
| 17 | When I married , I left behind the few friends of my childhood , and made no lasting friends in London . |
| 18 | The third congress of journalists which met at the end of January simply stressed the importance of party leadership of the press and made no practical survey of what was actually happening . |
| 19 | ‘ Thomas , Thomas , ’ Gwendolen moaned quietly to herself , and made no further bid for the limelight . |
| 20 | He looked slightly embarrassed and made no answering comment . |
| 21 | They suspect that because they are not really wanted , they are put into estates , overcharged in the shops and given no recreational or community facilities . |
| 22 | It offers the exporter least security and involves no specific finance arrangements . |
| 23 | For many journals the referee receives a typescript in the post , sends comments off , and receives no other feedback than to see the article appearing in print later . |
| 24 | In the republics or a country like Malaysia , which has its own monarch , she has by definition no function and receives no constitutional advice . |
| 25 | George Kirkham sent out an appeal to all Anglo-Burman Associations asking their members to go back to Burma in this spirit , and demanding no special safeguards . |
| 26 | Thus Northern Ireland enjoyed the same standard of services and endured no greater taxation than the rest of the UK . |
| 27 | They felt no grief and experienced no real sense of loss . |
| 28 | The journalists asked a few questions and got no real answers and the old Monsieur le Président , who had presided so long in his own way at the top , shouted and banged his fist before leaving the room . |
| 29 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |
| 30 | I was told of one particular youngster in Stockton-on-Tees who has been arrested and charged no fewer than 17 times this year . |