Example sentences of "which no [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the bridge the atmosphere was tense ; the sweeping cursor of the radar showed the nearest of the islands , Levenish , to be only a kilometre distant and , although the water was deep enough , there comes a point beyond which no prudent captain will take a liner full of passengers . |
| 2 | That , I was told , led to their claim , by agreement , being reduced now from £7,171.50 to £6,439.72 but , moreover , the claim that they put forward took no account of the fact that the second day of the hearing was occupied in consideration of the mother 's claim for a contact order as to which no possible complaint could be made against the local authority . |
| 3 | This of course provides a situation in which no possible combination of results could falsify an inverted-U relationship . |
| 4 | The apparent concentration of research effort in some well-favoured areas is justified by the intrinsic geological interest of these areas , but the large areas of Scotland in which no university-supported research has been undertaken must call for some explanation . |
| 5 | The atmosphere reflected in early writings on the subject is unmistakably one of eager , and on the whole , confident experimentation in new forms of political association , in a world in which no absolute diminution of British power appears to be anticipated . |
| 6 | … particular care must be taken before stigmatising a decision as one at which no reasonable person could have arrived , for this is coming dangerously close to the court substituting its own discretion for that of the tribunal . |
| 7 | Normally , for an exchange to be arbitrary or capricious , it would have to behave in a way which no reasonable person in its position would have done . |
| 8 | He did n't take a positivistic line and argue that the sentence ‘ God exists ’ is literally meaningless , but he did at least think that it was , expressed a proposition which no reasonable person would accept . |
| 9 | It is possible to challenge an appeal decision in the High Court but only on grounds of an error of law , of a defect in the procedure or of the decision being one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have made . |
| 10 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 11 | Vial arrived here in June 1788 , armed with letters of introduction ( without which no serious traveller went abroad ) to Sir Joseph Banks , Dr Simmons , Dr Layard and others . |
| 12 | In any proceeding in which no pre-trial review has been fixed , the district judge may nonetheless give notice to the parties requiring them to appear before him on the day named in the notice , so that the question of giving directions may be considered ( Ord 17 , rr 10 and 11(4) ) . |
| 13 | It is also a waste of talent and ability which no modern economy can afford . |
| 14 | An agreeable sort of departure , a legal exit to which no legal re-entry was ever to be forthcoming . |
| 15 | Although nowadays a certain amount of mechanical testing is done for what might be called academic reasons , by far the most of it is done for strictly practical ends and in fact a thorough knowledge of the actual strength of its materials is , like drains and income tax , one of the things which no advanced civilization can do without . |
| 16 | Acute pancreatitis is a severe disease with significant morbidity and mortality for which no specific treatment exists . |
| 17 | The experience , it is argued , has a privileged access to his own mental states , denied to external observers ; i.e. he " knows them in a sense in which no external observer can ever " know " them . |
| 18 | In its turn this superiority posed problems of collaboration with the allies — and indeed of the balance of forces between Romans and allies — which occasionally emerge from our sources ( for instance , Livy , 25.33.6 ) , but which no ancient writer analysed , not even Polybius . |
| 19 | I think that a case might arise in which the reputation of a local authority might be damaged , so as to impair its function for the public good , in which no private individual was defamed ; and in which the public interest would be served by the taking of proceedings for libel by the local authority in order to determine the falsity of the charge . |
| 20 | They thus add to the business flier 's personal income , income on which no personal income tax is paid . |
| 21 | What is not possible is that something should exist ( temporally extended or not ) of which no coherent notion can be formed . |
| 22 | But just as Eliot remarked that Shakespeare acquired from Plutarch more essential knowledge than most men could from the whole British Museum , so he himself seemed to have acquired from books like F. S. Oliver 's Endless Adventure an extraordinary grasp of historical movements and tendencies , for example the seventeenth century ‘ disassociation of sensibility ’ was a piece of historical perception which no pure historian would have been able to originate . |
| 23 | Consider first a case in which no cognitive map is needed . |
| 24 | Ballot papers on which no second preference is indicated clearly can not be transferred . |
| 25 | In fact , there seems to be a kind of Ur -pop song in Adorno 's mind — to which no actual song , however standardized , could totally conform . |
| 26 | Like Gustav III of Sweden , he would easily overturn an unreasonable constitution within which no self-respecting monarch could move . |
| 27 | Furthermore , despite Hurd 's fervent belief that security arrangements must originate from within the Arab world itself , his own hints of what they should be ( which no Arab leader is likely to ignore ) seem to run counter to the practical realities of the world in which they are to be applied . |
| 28 | Finally , ‘ dedicated ’ asset specificity refers to resources which , in principle , are usable elsewhere but for which no effective demand exists outside the present transaction ; their installation was conditional on continuing demand from a particular buyer ( see Williamson , 1983 : 526 ) . |
| 29 | The conclusions drawn on the sensitivity of the enzymes towards different structural changes in the tRNA is presumably valid also in the homologous situation and opens the possibility for more specific tests in yeast , for which no complete system yet is available . |
| 30 | The Iolanthe set provides what is called a ‘ bonus track ’ ( actually five tracks ) of orchestral dance-numbers which have been recently identified as coming from Gilbert and Sullivan 's very first collaboration , Thespis ( Gaiety Theatre , 1871 ) , of which no complete score survives . |