Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mother or , more often , the father who is separated for long periods or repeated shorter periods from the home ( through professional requirements , for example , or by prison sentence ) stands in danger of becoming an " inconsiderable " member of the family — one who is of the family group but who , in the child 's eyes , plays little or no part in its procedures , decisions and activities . |
| 2 | This caveat was echoed in Sybron Corp v Rochem Ltd [ 1983 ] 3 WLR 713 where it was said that if an employee were required to report each and every breach of duty by fellow employees this would ruin good industrial relations . |
| 3 | On those figures , neither the Liberal Democrats or any other single party would be able to sustain Labour or the Conservatives in office . |
| 4 | Although Preston still referred to it privately as the God slot , as he had indicated to Kate it made little or no reference to the Almighty . |
| 5 | Pointing , at best , some sixty degrees off the wind , and drifting downwind at an alarming rate , we made little or no progress during the next three days . |
| 6 | This made little or no sense to them . |
| 7 | When her food arrived , she appeared to eat without appetite , made little or no response to any attempts at conversation and left the table without taking dessert or coffee . |
| 8 | In a Financial Times poll of senior businessmen , 70% said the budget made little or no difference to their companies or their view of government policy . |
| 9 | In the 1960s and 1970s a substantial body of evidence emerged which claimed that schools made little or no difference to pupils ' outcomes . |
| 10 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 11 | This question is made somewhat difficult to answer because one of the effects of the emphasis on the facts and merits of the particular case in Fleet Street Casuals is that the issue of standing now often receives little or no attention from the courts and is sometimes the subject of concessions by the respondent . |
| 12 | The 14th Army issued an ultimatum on April 2 that it would order troops to combat alert if the fighting in the area did not subside . |
| 13 | In the first place the number of States that work diligently on their accident investigation responsibilities is regrettably rather small , and although their delegates may approach a divisional meeting with the same view of the agenda items their ideas can be , and all too frequently are , frustrated by States which make little or no contribution in this field of activity . |
| 14 | You will have noted from the Brintons extract on page 106 that some English texts make little or no use of conjunctions . |
| 15 | If this is a universal understanding of the grief process , how does the church assist the bereaved in the first stage of their loss , bearing in mind that many people who make little or no claim to Christian faith still look to the church to provide a fitting funeral rite ? |
| 16 | The Warsaw pact offers little or no help to Hungary in disputes with other East Europeans . |
| 17 | Not simply a resurrection in people 's minds — I might well grant that but a resurrection as an objective fact of history , so that it could be said that the causal nexus of history and that of nature were broken ( for there are not resurrections ) . |
| 18 | Laissez-faire style Subordinates are given little or no direction at all , and are allowed to establish their own objectives and make all their own decisions . |
| 19 | Although SunSoft — indeed Sun as a whole — has given little or no ground on the issue of direct support for the Open Software Foundation 's Motif graphical user interface on its own Sparc systems , Watkins says the company is more than happy for third parties to supply it . |
| 20 | Apart from delays at border crossings during the June crackdown , Hong Kong firms experienced little or no disruption at their Guangdong operations . |
| 21 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 22 | In a substantial proportion of cases dischargers normally display little or no objection to the standards imposed by the agency , as a result of preparatory work in negotiations conducted by the field officer together with , in more important cases , his area supervisor . |
| 23 | If sulphur dioxide is giving rise to the principal health threat during a smog , then banning the use of petrol-powered vehicles ( which principally emit hydrocarbons , oxides of nitrogen and carbon monoxide as well as contributing to the formation of ozone ) will make little or no difference to sulphur dioxide levels compared with banning diesel-engine vehicles which do emit some sulphur dioxide . |
| 24 | Whereas country life had before been relatively quiescent , it now became unsettled and the foci of dissatisfaction altered ; protests against taxes were regularly staged from about 1540 , and after 1550 gave way to larger-scale insurrections such as those at Romans in 1580 , in the south west during the 1590s , and , much later , the Camisard rebellion in the Cévennes which began in 1688 . |
| 25 | On the particular issue of regional migration as it affects Greater York , I would suspect and we can probably put some information in to confirm this that the linkages between Greater York area and other county areas within er Yorkshire and Humberside , vary . |
| 26 | Bartlett 's ideas on schemata became popular when the development of computers meant that theories of this type could be programmed ( e.g. Minsky , 1975 ; Rumelhart , 1975 ; Schank , 1976 ) . |
| 27 | For the first Christians to claim this as the heart of their faith was a scandal of the first order . |
| 28 | If erm things should start to go wrong and the chap on the floor erm was to make any movement or s sudden movement towards either P C or any other piece of equipment in the room which may cause injury or damage to ourselves or himself , it would be down to me to challenge that man er and allow P C to get back behind er the ballistic shield . |
| 29 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 30 | As the Court on Oct. 13 shifted attention to the body of documentary evidence brought before it , it became clear that a decision on summoning the final witnesses , including Gorbachev , would be postponed until after the document stage . |