Example sentences of "no [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information about the actual place is sparse , but an Orangutan Foundation representative told BBC WILDLIFE that there are no facilities and no expertise there to care for the orangs , and that the surrounding primary forest has been destroyed by fire and so is unsuitable as a release area . |
| 2 | His grandmother , living in luxury in the Plaza Hotel in Buenos Aires and grumbling because she had to wash her own stockings , claimed she had no money even to pay her own bills . |
| 3 | I 'm in no case now to make war on any marcher lord . |
| 4 | This vision might not always be met but that was no excuse not to go on trying . |
| 5 | Then I had no excuse not to audition for plays , and when I did I found that I enjoyed it . |
| 6 | Academics have no excuse not to provide students with the academic freedoms outlined earlier . |
| 7 | In its efforts to counteract these difficulties , the RSPB works closely with other organisations to support foreign bird protection societies , to help train their staff , and to help bring birds to people who have previously had no opportunity even to read a bird book . |
| 8 | These films are technically well produced and create an atmosphere of reality , useful for the student who has no opportunity actually to visit the library at the time of seeing the film . |
| 9 | But Ruth had no heart either to appreciate or to envy her mistress . |
| 10 | You 're in no condition yet to tackle the stairs . ’ |
| 11 | There was no intention ever to remove these , nor the few that were established on the central ridge dominating the West Bank . |
| 12 | There 's no plaque there to remind the citizenry of the city 's civil warriors . |
| 13 | There is no attempt here to tell us how we should use words ; instead we get quotations from the work of various women which show how varied and creative definition has been , and how differently certain words appear from a feminist perspective . |
| 14 | When I say ‘ relationship ’ I mean this in its purely formal sense ; there is no attempt here to make any claim about possible causal relationships between ideas and practice . |
| 15 | My father made no attempt ever to control his rages even though he knew his condition . |
| 16 | No girl yet to spend his money — no misspent youth , he reached his goal |
| 17 | There was no guard there to check tickets . |
| 18 | In no mood now to finish her work , she stalked along to the kitchen . |
| 19 | Moreover , there is no room here to explore the comments further , to probe the reasoning behind them or to see to what extent they represent a wider consensus . |
| 20 | You 've no room here to keep anything at all . ’ |
| 21 | No place else to put it . |
| 22 | His young wife says , ‘ You 're here because there 's no place else to hide . ’ |
| 23 | These people will have no right to enter Britain and no right either to work or vote in Britain or elsewhere . |
| 24 | But I think I have no right not to try the impossible in order to save the country . |
| 25 | There is no need here to consider what is capable of amounting to a reasonable excuse , but it suffices to say that the defence is clearly of very limited scope . |
| 26 | As for the position of Asian women , the immigration laws show the government 's attitude — that there is no need even to pretend that they are equal . |
| 27 | There now seemed no need even to ask for help ; my needs were known , so I waited for a cure . |
| 28 | Because strong focusing preferences are applied only when appropriate , there is no need even to check that the dog biting the vet is a plausible event , since on linguistic grounds , no other possibilities exist . |
| 29 | I trudged up to the camp-site again , to find that there was no need even to look for driftwood for a fire . |
| 30 | So we sat there in the silence as if we knew each other well and had no need merely to talk ; and as a matter of fact it seemed in a way to suit the stillness of the day . |