Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [det] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drug produced little or no Parkinsonism ( tremor ) , acute dystonia ( abnormal face and body movements ) or akathisia ( restlessness ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If he considers that the proposed change has little or no impact on functionality , cost , or timescale , the Change Management Procedures can be bypassed and there is no need for any further action . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the 1960s and 1970s a substantial body of evidence emerged which claimed that schools made little or no difference to pupils ' outcomes . |
| 6 | These results also demonstrate that the protein complex has little or no affinity for the double stranded PPT element ( WT ) as assayed by gel retardation . |
| 7 | Competition of the specific complex formed on SSB by both the double stranded WT and complementary SSA in both cases is the result of the complementary strand binding to the SSB oligonucleotide forming a double stranded oligonucleotide for which the protein has little or no affinity . |
| 8 | Anderson initially gives his academic status — " I am the J. S. Mill Professor of Ethics at the University of Cambridge " — invoking both his personal position and the prestige of his academic establishment , but the pomposity of such a reversal of the modesty maxim is absurd when his interlocutors speak little or no English . |
| 9 | In conventional terms , the profit and loss account showed better profits while the analysis of the sources and uses of funds produced little or no improvement ! |
| 10 | The bedroom contained little but a bed , a trunk and an old photograph of Celia . |
| 11 | But like so many of his generation , he was a product of Scotland 's obsession with football , the game was everything and business , budgeting and sensible investment offered little or no attraction . |
| 12 | Such transmitted signals have little or no effect on lights , motors and electrical equipment but they arc easily detected by an electronic circuit . |
| 13 | Interestingly , the existence of collective action problems of this kind bears little or no relation to the preference intensities of the actors . |
| 14 | In the early years after 1885 purity groups received little or no help from the state in implementing the new act . |
| 15 | The Warsaw pact offers little or no help to Hungary in disputes with other East Europeans . |
| 16 | You will have noted from the Brintons extract on page 106 that some English texts make little or no use of conjunctions . |
| 17 | A more careful look at Fig 1 , reveals that , between the ages of about 15 and 18 years the age at first marriage has little or no effect on the age when the first birth occurs . |
| 18 | Mr Key found little or no harm done to Jane Cox , but found the small body of her newborn child wrapped in the bedclothes . |
| 19 | As is commonly found in small-scale societies , the definition of humanity excludes all but the we-group . |
| 20 | To the thin-skinned Ceauşescus , the broadcasts of Radio Free Europe and the BBC were intolerable , but they recognized that the émigré broadcasters had little or no influence in the West . |
| 21 | The Duke of Northumberland 's political concerns had little or no significance for contemporary society , a fact acknowledged by Nesta Webster in her conspiracy theory novel , The Secret of the Zodiac . |
| 22 | But Dr Kitzinger believes all but a handful are true . |
| 23 | He fought for higher oil revenues to finance this and the development programmes that would transform Iran 's economy . |
| 24 | The report called Help with Hostel Charges , Proposals for Change cited the PSI study and stated : ‘ Many hostels provided little or no care to their residents . |
| 25 | However , not all plants do this and a number of trees which normally produce straight , stress-carrying boughs can be grafted so as to behave like weeping willows . |
| 26 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 27 | In practice , Kramer argues , the older traditional voluntary organisations gave little or no place to the consumer . |
| 28 | The simplification of criminal procedure also may have discouraged false cases because defendants were put to less inconvenience when the charge had little or no evidence to substantiate it . |
| 29 | A producer is chosen to mould the natural sound of the band into a new format , and the mesmerised band wander out of the studio clutching a product bearing little or no resemblance to the demo they went in with . |
| 30 | Relevant factors included ( 1 ) the hirer 's lack of expertise in the plant hire business ; ( 2 ) that the contract was arranged at short notice and was for a short period of hire ; it was therefore difficult for the plaintiff hirers to arrange insurance cover ; ( 3 ) that the clause was not the subject of negotiation ; ( 4 ) that the hirers had little or no control over the way the driver did his job . |