Example sentences of "have had no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has had no real contact since but occasionally rings up Mr Smith and Andrew to enquire how her ‘ bairn ’ is getting on . |
| 2 | She has had no real contact since but occasionally rings up Mr Smith and Andrew to enquire how her ‘ bairn ’ is getting on . |
| 3 | ‘ I am assured by Mr Mates that he has had no financial involvement with Mr Nadir , nor with any of his companies or with his advisers , either before he became a minister or since , ’ said Mr Major . |
| 4 | A couple of years ago he made Local Stigmatic , a version of a 1956 Heathcote Williams play that has had no official theatre release . |
| 5 | Thus , although the Labour movement has had no great success in squeezing the capitalists until the pips squeak , its leaders can point to a variety of real improvements in the living standards of the working class as good reason for continued support for their moderating policy . |
| 6 | As Brian Masters stated succinctly , ‘ the generation of the sixties inherited such a[n] [ established moral ] code and rejected it ; that of the eighties has had no firm code to inherit ’ . |
| 7 | Argentina has recently been paying the banks $40m a month ( equivalent to three days of the monthly amount due ) , but has had no formal discussions with its banks about a rescheduling . |
| 8 | Although she has had no formal training , Jenny does have a great talent . |
| 9 | Mercer Lorrimore in his turn and with a smile said his horse was called Voting Right , and no , he 'd had no advance notice of any attack . |
| 10 | Perhaps he 'd had no real intention of stuffing her up her back passage . |
| 11 | Finding herself passing Tony 's lodgings one evening when they 'd had no pre-arranged date , she had decided on impulse to drop in and surprise him . |
| 12 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |
| 13 | It has remained a corn mill throughout its working life , having had no known connection with the wool trade . |
| 14 | Deprived — fortunately as it turned out , for otherwise he would have had no spare time at all — of the pleasures of the rugby field , he played a little squash and tennis ( developing his ‘ cannonball serve : that 's all you need , see : they never get it back ’ ) and ‘ chatting up ’ . |
| 15 | Using the cleanest virus in the world , least changed by virtue of its isolation in extreme conditions , against which the human cell would have had no natural experience , they had inserted the Mahon virus into the molecular structure of the human gamete . |
| 16 | She may be surprised , disconcerted ; she may even have had no conscious intention of getting involved with this particular man . |
| 17 | Had he had the same nightmare at any other time , it might have had no particular meaning to him at all . |
| 18 | With one exception these have failed ; and the exception appears to have had no lasting effect on the course of the proceedings . |
| 19 | The vicar also held the chaplaincy of the deserted hamlet of Horn in plurality , but it yielded only a trifling 13s. 4d. , and he seems to have had no other benefice . |
| 20 | Though he claims to have had no inside knowledge , he may yet be forced out of his job — and the government forced to speed up planned legislation . |
| 21 | Henry IV appears to have had no burning ambition to secure the French crown , and during his reign Aquitaine suffered from relative neglect . |
| 22 | He seems to have had no direct connection with the other publishing Ranters ( although Joseph Salmon , q.v. , refers to him ) , but on 14 March 1650 Bauthumley was bored through the tongue with a hot iron for blasphemy , had his sword broken over his head , and was cashiered from the army . |
| 23 | As to this , Eadmer gives strong hints that he failed to prevent the encroachments of powerful tenants , but the details of these aggressions are lost : they seem to have had no important effect on the general prosperity of the Church of Canterbury . |
| 24 | Highly irregular but seems to have had no ill effects . |
| 25 | The evidence suggested that Bridge had worked in only one of the departments of what was a very substantial firm and had had no professional contact with the work of other departments . |
| 26 | Jake had had no real friends except Ben ; he had often been at the house in those old days , never saying much , but good at mending broken toys and constructing dolls out of handkerchiefs and folded paper . |
| 27 | Until that moment Aunt Louise had seemed almost a stranger , her mannerisms and glances unfamiliar , and I had had no real feeling of kinship . |
| 28 | At that stage in my life , I had had no real careers guidance and had very little idea of what I wanted to do or what I was capable of . |
| 29 | The USA had had no diplomatic relations with Libya since 1981 , and had suspended commercial ties in 1986 . |
| 30 | This remark , occurring as it does in a passage in which he is distinguishing between the grounds of the class metal ( ‘ the possession of certain common peculiarities ’ ) and those of the class sensation of white ( ‘ nothing but resemblance ’ ) clearly implies that if I had had no other sensations of white I could not assert the proposition ‘ This is a sensation of white ’ with the meaning it has when I have had such sensations . |