Example sentences of "had no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 5 per cent of the children saw their parents as often as once a month ; 41 per cent had no parental contact . |
| 2 | At that point people were not giving much for his chances , but luckily he had no internal injuries . |
| 3 | Cley 's chambers had no internal lighting . |
| 4 | He realised it would not matter at all that they had no bathing costumes . |
| 5 | His distraught mother , Marion , said her son , a YTP worker , was ‘ totally innocent ’ and had no paramilitary connections . |
| 6 | I thought that Heathcliffe had no redeeming features at all . |
| 7 | The Labour Party was weak in this rural constituency and had no prospective candidate and hardly any organization . |
| 8 | Jessica had no real complaints . |
| 9 | He had no real friends and was difficult . |
| 10 | So he was a prisoner still , and in this alien world , circumscribed by a tiny room and a job in a Zoo , he had no real friends . |
| 11 | He had no real friends . |
| 12 | She had no real evidence to suggest he was a lecherous womaniser , prone to pouncing on any female in his company . |
| 13 | Oh , I had no real evidence but a certain wariness , a feeling of unease . |
| 14 | I was eyeballing distances at that time , and had no real idea how far Roberto had to clear the out-of-bounds and a wee bank that ran round the hole , but we had a strong breeze behind us going from right to left . |
| 15 | Mrs Stych , however , nibbled appreciatively at one of the chocolate morsels , while Mrs Johnson , who had no real idea how to trace an author , outlined a plan of campaign so huge that it would have confused an entire army staff , never mind Mrs Stych . |
| 16 | We 'd made three or four visits to the area to look around before we finally moved down , but I had no real idea what was happening . |
| 17 | None of them could play or sing in tune , and Charlie , who fancied himself on skins , had no real idea of rhythm . |
| 18 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 19 | When Frederica left for Nîmes she had no real idea of the South . |
| 20 | She had no real idea what to look for , and her date was a dull , insular major in the RA who had no wish to mix . |
| 21 | Maggie was undressing him impatiently too although she had no real idea of what she was doing . |
| 22 | Quixotic or not , I had no real idea of where I was going . |
| 23 | The problem was she had no real idea of what she was going to say or do when she got to the château . |
| 24 | The trouble was that Fred had no real idea of what had gone on tonight , but she had ! |
| 25 | For four hundred years the town was subject to Bern , and had no real influence on Swiss politics until 1798 . |
| 26 | They had no real chance of attention , let alone remedy or compensation . |
| 27 | Bitterly , Hope thought , as he walked along the margin of the northern shore , ignoring the spectacular , breath-catching view down Derwent Water and deep into Borrowdale , she simply had no real love in her . |
| 28 | Without him in the frame as a serious bidder she had no real fears that her father would decide to sell . |
| 29 | He was a poet who insisted upon the nature and value of a tradition , and yet he had no real predecessors or successors . |
| 30 | Marx pours scorn on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophers , such as the utilitarians , who believed that ideas and values had no real significance but were a mere reflection of natural conditions . |