Example sentences of "have been no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take no point on this except to say that normally ( and this case would probably have been no exception ) some documents and some items of information would be disclosable while privilege would be claimed in respect of others . |
| 2 | Lili and Robert were out , and anyway there would have been no escape . |
| 3 | If hed have stayed there would have been no hassles at all . |
| 4 | Without the materials , he wrote , without the paints and the brushes , the pencils and the paper , above all without the panels of glass , there could have been no beginning , and I want to record here , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that there was a beginning , at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday 27 July 1967 . |
| 5 | They reserve one day for women , and in 1886 there may have been no day reserved for women at all . |
| 6 | Had the Powells not come from England in 1609–10 there possibly would have been no Portadown , for a map of 1609 shows no trace of any settlement in the area . |
| 7 | The alternative , many of the fathers believed , would have been no text at all . |
| 8 | There would have been no possibility of winning her consent to handing him the tape , let alone the private detective 's report . |
| 9 | Apart from the time Gould would have spent stalking , shooting , skinning , and preparing these and a host of other birds , there would have been no possibility of him visiting all these different localities and reaching the west bend of the Murray . |
| 10 | If anything had gone wrong , there might have been no chances for another . |
| 11 | If three giants had come through the door there would have been no choice but to retreat . |
| 12 | Under the law before 1968 the facts of this case would have led to charges , to which there would have been no defence , of obtaining goods by false pretences . |
| 13 | There would have been no defence ( just as in Reg. v. Lawrence ) if the charge had been laid under section 15(1) and , as in Reg. v. Lawrence and the present case , it was the Crown 's resort to section 1(1) which alone gave rise to a legal problem . |
| 14 | There would have been no contract but a non-binding domestic arrangement . |
| 15 | In fact , once the evidence that Minos lived and ruled in the Labyrinth at Knossos has been seen as hopelessly insubstantial , it begins to look as if there might have been no king at all . |
| 16 | He maintains that what we take to have been the causal circumstance might have existed as it did , and the rest of the universe might have been just as it was-and there might have been no smell . |
| 17 | He says that the circumstance might have existed as it did , the other events and conditions in the universe might have been as they were , and there might have been no smell . |
| 18 | ( I should point out that had it not been for my sister Etty , who had financed this latest venture , there would have been no printing business . ) |
| 19 | To the targets of those terrible promises , there could have been no course but resistance at any price . |
| 20 | Two carriages took the Bradford family to early morning service , though it would have been no distance for them to walk . |
| 21 | If the figure on the cross had been the last sight of him , we would have heard nothing more of him and there would have been no Church . |
| 22 | The interval must be long enough to avoid any carry-over practice effects between the first administration and the second , but sufficiently short so that it can be assumed that there will have been no change in the real underlying abilities of the children concerned . |
| 23 | said the performance of the Courtaulds staff was outstanding and , had the emergency been real , there would have been no consequences for the general public or the environment . |
| 24 | According to Rosenblatt 's theory , the poem is like the noise the crash makes , and if there was no one to hear the crash — no ear drums for the waves to bang against — there can have been no noise . |
| 25 | There would have been no sense in which men with such a moral sense would have been mistaken , would not have known the real moral truth . |
| 26 | If I had done as they said there would have been no chance of being fit enough for the expedition . |
| 27 | ‘ From the moment he caught the bear 's attention there could have been no chance of him escaping . |
| 28 | If instead of holding on to the property X had given the property to Y no inheritance tax will be in point provided Y farmed the property ( or X survived the gift by seven years ) but in that case there would have been no capital gains tax uplift on the death of X. |
| 29 | It may have been no coincidence that the Government announced in March 1990 that industrial tribunals were to be given the power to hear claims for damages in respect of breaches of employment contract . |
| 30 | There could also have been no coincidence in the scheduling of Lou Reed to speak before Jackson . |