Example sentences of "they [vb base] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working population has thus continued to make contributions for which they gain no benefit . |
| 2 | These definitions are significantly more positive than those contained in the Companies Act 1985 , and they make no allowance for the likelihood of the contingencies crystallising into actual liabilities ; this is apparently in conflict with SSAP 18 , Accounting for Contingencies , which requires remote contingencies to be excluded from accounts disclosures . |
| 3 | They make no noise , yet sometimes are punished , |
| 4 | Local authorities have an unusual approach to recording their assets as they make no provision for depreciation — see chapter 8 . |
| 5 | An overwhelming difficulty with the Baxter proposals for King 's Cross is that they make no provision for any improvement to Network SouthEast 's Thameslink cross-London services , which is an essential element of the British Rail plan . |
| 6 | They make no secret of their anger that the British should be offering military aid to help their violent struggle against the Serbs in Bosnia rather than providing food and blankets . |
| 7 | They make no sense , half the time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They make no sense . |
| 9 | ‘ They make no sense . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ they make no outcries and exclamations in the departure of the soul ; and that they make no judgement concerning the dying person by his dying quietly or violently , with comfort or without , with great fears or a cheerful confidence , with sense or without , like a lion or like a lamb , with convulsions or semblances of great pain or like an expiring and a spent candle ; for these happen to all men without rule … ‘ |
| 11 | Precisely because they make no claim to be accurate descriptions of the social world , they are not directly testable . |
| 12 | They make no claim to understand other subjects and professional fields , and are in no position to describe , analyse , comment upon or evaluate what goes on there . |
| 13 | They have such confidence in their defences that they make no attempt whatsoever to hide themselves . |
| 14 | They make no attempt to explore the cause of those tears , concentrating instead on living without muscular tension . |
| 15 | They are conspicuous for their conciliatory terms : although they insist as firmly as ever on the prohibition of lay investiture , they make no mention of homage . |
| 16 | They say that a release is on the cards this week er they make no mention of any ransom and they say Terry Waite is a priority for release ; he is at the top of a list of Western hostages about to be set free . |
| 17 | In this regard they make no distinction between animals and superhumans . |
| 18 | They mean no disrespect to your ma . ’ |
| 19 | Insiders attempt to maximize the utility only of the representative employed worker ( that is , the representative insider ) ; they attach no utility to the welfare of unemployed workers ( outsiders ) . |
| 20 | I regret to inform him that , as things stand , he gives the impression that he intends to cling , right reason or none , to his position of power over a people who have consistently told him and his party that they want no part of it . |
| 21 | ‘ They want no part of it and do not give it their support . |
| 22 | When they come to live and work in England they expect no language difficulties such as they know would await them in , say , Panama or Cuba . |
| 23 | As children , they pose no threat to the group . |
| 24 | While they are on the ground , it is argued , they pose no danger ; if they fly , most will be shot down . |
| 25 | If they are too hard they provide no motivation . |
| 26 | they provide no way of measuring the salience of an attitude ; we never know whether the attitude would have been expressed at all , or in the same way , apart from the direct question … |
| 27 | On the other hand , they provide no support for the pipework which can cause the cistern to split or make the plumbing noisy if the pipes are not adequately supported in some other way . |
| 28 | Day works should be bed as they provide no incentive for a contractor to be efficient because he or she is not responsible for the efficient use of resources , the profit is guaranteed and there may be a risk of double payment . |
| 29 | Dogs are those cows which have further deteriorated such that they provide no cash throw-off , due to the effect of a small market share in a very mature market . |
| 30 | So many , so arbitrary , so variable have these definitions been , she claims , that they provide no basis at all for deciding which children need special education nor for explaining the growth of special education . |