Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | As citizens in the community , we may find no change at all . |
| 2 | We may have no choice but to do so , though I believe that the change has been more damaging than beneficial . |
| 3 | Many of us have a special tune or song that conjures up a particular time and place whenever we hear it , or brings back a flood of memories , but we may have no way of celebrating it . |
| 4 | The fact that we may have no reason to say of someone looking at a blue flower that it looks blue to him does not mean that it does not look blue to him . |
| 5 | One problem is that we may have no clear criterion for dividing up the workforce into classes and strata . |
| 6 | In some cases we may have no difficulty in finding several groups , but in every case we shall find one ( or two ) . |
| 7 | We should entertain no illusions . |
| 8 | On this view , we can only realistically expect positivist criminology to produce ‘ probabilistic ’ theories — associating variability of cause with variability of outcome ; we should expect no more than loose associations between specified causal variables and criminal behaviour . |
| 9 | We should make no mistake about the political nature of these developments , but a horrified throwing in of the towel is no response on the part of those who would manage the service in the interests of pupils . |
| 10 | ‘ We should weep no tears for them , ’ one commentator said . |
| 11 | ‘ Let the men of this country take home , each one , his wife and his babes , and we should hear no more of shortage of work and lowering of wages . ’ |
| 12 | This strategy implies that we should have no preconceived ideas about the research we should support and that we should concentrate on deriving the criteria against which we should assess proposals which , on the balance of probabilities might stand the best chance of success . |
| 13 | This is the nearest ninth-century specialists can get to methodological rigour : we should have no illusions about our limitations , nor about some still-enormous gaps in available evidence . |
| 14 | The point is that if anything of that degree of complexity were found on a planet , we should have no hesitation in concluding that life existed , or had once existed , on that planet . |
| 15 | To act ethically , firstly , we must respect the wishes of the dead and dying ; secondly , we must cause no unnecessary distress to relatives ; and lastly , we must cause no emotional crisis for the staff of intensive care units . |
| 16 | To act ethically , firstly , we must respect the wishes of the dead and dying ; secondly , we must cause no unnecessary distress to relatives ; and lastly , we must cause no emotional crisis for the staff of intensive care units . |
| 17 | ‘ We must take no outside help . |
| 18 | ‘ We must take no risks … let us go to the refuge . |
| 19 | We 'll go no more a-screwing So late into the night , Though the heart is still as loving And the moon is still as bright . |
| 20 | We 'll go no fucking way |
| 21 | We 'll waste no arrows until they make their true attack . ’ |
| 22 | You 've been ill , very feverish , so we 'll say no more about it . |
| 23 | Once I 'm out , you can disappear and we 'll say no more about it . ’ |
| 24 | Then you piss off out of it and we 'll say no more . ’ |
| 25 | Now we 'll say no more about it . |
| 26 | We 'll say no more . |
| 27 | Nay , we 'll take no chances — she saw 'oo it was , you know ! ’ |
| 28 | And we 'll take no seneschal or steward , either . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'll have no excuses if we do n't reach the semi-finals and , with our experience in Europe , we believe we can win the trophy again . ’ |
| 30 | That way we 'll have no full-sentients spreading Karel 's childish revolution through our systems . ’ |