Example sentences of "have [be] no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had that principle ruled post-war planning , there would have been no new towns . |
| 2 | The torpedo must have been dropped in the Harbour — there would have been no other reason for entering the Harbour . |
| 3 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 4 | If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority . |
| 5 | he would have had fucking pen there would have been no working for them ! |
| 6 | There would have been no great age of dinosaurs , but there would have been a flowering of mammals 130 million years earlier . |
| 7 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
| 8 | There can be little doubt that under the terms of the Common Foreign and Security policy , there would have been no European response to Saddam Hussein 's aggression . |
| 9 | If the Syrians had not permitted Hezbollah to have a presence in the southern suburbs of Beirut , there would have been no Iranian presence there . |
| 10 | Here the occupants of the house would ascend to the first floor by way of the outside steps , as originally there would have been no inner staircase . |
| 11 | Anthropologists increasingly agree that until agriculture had evolved there could have been no modern ‘ rain-forest man ’ . |
| 12 | They went up to Scotland for your christening , 'eighty-three , it must have been no 'eighty-four , and when they came down south again , they came to my office and the wills were drawn up . ’ |
| 13 | It can have been no easy journey for the funeral procession of mourners and military volunteers as they followed the coffin up the steep climb to Catherine Hill Burial Ground that bleak Friday in February with the snow thick on the ground . |
| 14 | Thus , but for their own agricultural ministry , there would have been no American criticism , nor would there have been such a well-publicised fillip for the Californian sparkling wine industry . |
| 15 | These disagreements themselves make it clear that there can have been no dramatic recovery which compensated for the losses from the fourteenth-century plagues ; any such marked increase would have left no scope for argument . |
| 16 | No one had investigated inner-city language in this way before , so for all we knew there might have been no significant differences at all , and we were told by at least one colleague — not very encouragingly — that ‘ Broad Belfast ’ dialect was all very much the same . |
| 17 | Without this theme , the novels might not have survived , let alone become minor classics ; but without characters properly created to promote the theme , there would have been no organic life in the books either . |
| 18 | Without dégorgement and Clicquot 's remuage , the Champagne process would have been no different from the medieval ‘ rural method ’ utilised elsewhere . |
| 19 | I should add that the outcome would have been no different even if the Act of 1985 had applied since Mr. Thomas concedes the time when the cause of action arises must be the same under both Acts . |
| 20 | Otherwise you may aggravate something that , with a little rest and good management , could have been no more than a minor injury . |
| 21 | A draw would have been no more than Wolves deserved , but Kiwomya , Ipswich 's most impressive forward , was not finished . |
| 22 | Some may say yes and some may say no and it will have all the appearance of a decision being made , but the real structure may have been no more than the bland question/answer relationship between the teacher-in-role and the class . |
| 23 | The terms ‘ Royal ’ and ‘ King ’ are perhaps not altogether appropriate for what would have been no more than tribal chieftains . |
| 24 | Or it may have been no more than a ruse to exert pressure and force him to reconsider . |
| 25 | Veneers appear in the 1880s although an eighteenth-century example was discovered during the 1983–4 excavations at St Augustine-the-Less , Bristol , but this might have been no more than an attempt on the part of the coffin-maker to mask some splits at the shoulder caused by over-zealous saw-cuts when kerfing . |
| 26 | The one or two well-to-do tanners identified in the subsidy rolls were so scattered , and formed so small a part of the population , that the contribution of leather working to the local economy can have been no more than marginal at best . |
| 27 | Of course , this might have been no more than a diplomatic ruse by the Russians to initiate a dependence which would permit a later imposition of heavier tribute payments without negative results . |
| 28 | The easy , informed arguments they had about the Kesselring case proved him wrong : as they talked , the two of them might have been no more than friendly colleagues . |
| 29 | In the final analysis the entrepreneurial solution would have been no more than an evasion of the underlying causes of Nizan 's personal crisis of 1926–27 . |
| 30 | It would have been no more than I deserved . ’ |