Example sentences of "[coord] no [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There should have been real mountains , or no mountains at all . |
| 2 | Soon everyone was on non-exclusive contracts , or no contracts at all . |
| 3 | What , being kicked in the bollocks or no reflexes ? |
| 4 | The taskforce is one of about 16,500 non-profit organisations ( Bushwick alone has almost 30 of them ) that receive little or no taxpayers ' money . |
| 5 | Jeremiah 's audience had rebelled against God and was following false gods or no gods at all . |
| 6 | It should put simple yes or no questions on whether the European monetary treaty — and , if there is one , the political treaty — should be accepted . |
| 7 | An example was ‘ Bloody Friday ’ , 21st July 1972 , when the Provisional IRA exploded twenty-two bombs in Belfast with slight or no warnings and killed 16 people and injured 120 others . |
| 8 | This distinguished between the temporary unemployment of skilled workers in periods of depression and the permanent underemployment of others in a labour market overstocked with workers with limited or no skills . |
| 9 | ‘ Tenants or no tenants , I 've got my job to do . |
| 10 | But magistrates said that ’ the multitude and magnitude of these offences , coupled with little or no signs of remorse ’ made that difficult . |
| 11 | There are a number of species which occur in this way and hence define communities in a rather trivial sense , since there are few or no associates . |
| 12 | With little or no bubbles to speak of , we did n't find this sweet and flowery wine easy to drink . |
| 13 | Yeah but er you see on Christmas Day children were going about in bikinis and and shorts , or no socks or so |
| 14 | It does have a happy ending , but what if the child reading had only one or no parents ? |
| 15 | Not only were the hands and feet not in any of the places I had thought possible , but I had come to realise that the hypothesis was quite inadequate to explain missing eyeballs , these being hopelessly ill equipped for hopping , volts or no volts . |
| 16 | Some counties like Worcestershire , Shropshire , Lancashire and Somerset , which in 1966 had few or no sites , can now be seen to have just as many sites as the ‘ classic ’ deserted village areas of Warwickshire , Oxfordshire , Northamptonshire and Yorkshire , where the sites were first located . |
| 17 | But in these cases , the cylindrical columns are replaced by slender vaulting shafts with tiny or no capitals and arcade piers with no break of any kind before the arch . |
| 18 | But a great man , a potens , in Charles 's kingdom could quit the scene as completely as he had momentarily seemed to dominate it : if he died leaving only young sons , or no sons at all , or if he moved to another Carolingian kingdom , Charles might redistribute his honores as he put it , voluntarie — " in accordance with my will " . |
| 19 | A significant number were aimed at positive prevention and these included altering the time allowed for lesson changeover to reduce crowd chaos , a decision to involve all staff in corridor supervision , a move to set up mutual support pairs amongst staff and the creation of a rewards system following the realization that for non-academic pupils the school offered little or no incentives . |
| 20 | The sequence of questions may bias the answers e.g. a likely alternation of Yes/No answers is more ‘ natural ’ than a uniform series of Yes or No answers . |
| 21 | For example , much of the foregoing discussion was making the point that soil erosion was important to many small producers in steep-sloped and/or semi-arid areas and it may have seemed that these people were the only ones to cause and suffer from the effects of soil erosion ; also that there were few or no cases where successful adaptations and advances in agricultural technology had occurred . |
| 22 | Open-field farming , with few or no hedges must have produced a very bare landscape , totally lacking in visual interest which the great modern prairie farms of East Anglia have actually re-created in the last few decades . |
| 23 | One is intensive arable as in the Fens , New Holland in Lincolnshire , and on much of the chalk ; there are few or no hedges or trees , but open country with no sense of enclosure or division . |
| 24 | This type of base tends to feel very firm as there are few or no springs . |
| 25 | Jane was not popular : in order to be popular , you had to be good at games , and Jane was useless at all of them — and they played everything — netball , rounders , tennis , lacrosse , hockey — even cricket — every afternoon , rain or shine , exams or no exams . |
| 26 | Overgrowth cements on feldspars and carbonate echinoderm fragments are similar to quartz overgrowth cements in that they contain few or no inclusions or are commonly in optical continuity with the parent grain ( Fig. 5.27a , b ) . |
| 27 | It can also be as elementary as the monotone with either few or no inflections . |
| 28 | Cannon 's Historical Record of the King 's Regiment gives little or no details of the Regiment 's service in the Ionian Islands between 1819 and 1824 . |
| 29 | Faced with the stark reality of a choice between jobs or no jobs , the majority had elected to work . |
| 30 | Typically , the reptilian egg is laid on land and is encased in a shell to prevent its liquids from evaporating , but those eggs that are kept within the female until they hatch have either very thin shells or no shells at all . |