Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] or [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 32 | Although most trees produce few seeds in any year , the energy stored in each seed is sufficient for a seedling to grow for several weeks with little or no photosynthesis . |
| 33 | Low risk activity ( transfer of body fluids with little or no evidence of HIV transmission ) : |
| 34 | If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 . |
| 35 | He said that petro-chemical plants with little or no pollution controls were releasing hundreds of thousands of tonnes of toxic waste into the atmosphere every year . |
| 36 | Nor is it very daring in the monolithic two-party system of the USA , where the narrow choice is between two rich , conservative ( in a wide sense ) white men , to offer allegiance to one or the other . |
| 37 | You often get this if you have a very strong guitarist or a strong keyboard player — you end up with a group without one or the other ; they just ca n't co-exist . |
| 38 | Whether it is one side 's cry of the ‘ radical uncertainty ’ of authentic faith or the other side 's reiteration of the ‘ leap of faith ’ , we are offered an imposing edifice of faith with little or no mention of foundations . |
| 39 | This is standard practice in more tropical countries where there are ‘ dust devils ’ or ‘ willy willies ’ which can produce a 40-knot wind in almost any direction with little or no warning . |
| 40 | Teams traipsing off the field under little or no threat of rain when the medium pacers are on is the bitterest pill a spectator has to swallow ; closely followed by the frequent inability to restart the game promptly . |
| 41 | Distinguishing between a multiplicity of variables in accounting for policy variations is , of course , a hazardous exercise , but despite the methodological difficulties it seems clear that a simple agency model , with local authorities implementing national policies with little or no discretion , is far from accurate . |
| 42 | ‘ Crew members are tearing dolphins out of the net and dumping them on the deck with little or no attention to whether they are alive or dead . |
| 43 | Furthermore , if we take seriously Black 's claim that his specimen metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ serves at once to render man wolf-like and to humanize wolves , a reversible metaphor could be imagined at the level of a word , a sentence , or a discourse in which each term was engaged in a metaphoric interaction with one or a number of other terms , organizing them , structuring them and in turn being structured by them . |
| 44 | In the other schools the head or the senior management team still decided on how to divide up the money with little or no consultation . |
| 45 | For there are large chunks of the remit of little or no interest to the advertisers . |
| 46 | A lanky cleric oozing good intentions and bad faith then launched into an address that was squirmingly anxious to avoid giving offence to persons of any or no belief while still suggesting that , who knows , there might after all be , you know , something out there . |
| 47 | Sometimes just one person like that or a couple of people ? |
| 48 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 49 | Males with little or no shade in their territory often remain unpaired . |
| 50 | If a very simple model is taken , representing stream patterns developing on a uniform surface with little or no slope , then no dominant process would control the direction of stream flow . |
| 51 | Design work was undertaken more or less in his head with little or no paper drawings . |
| 52 | Spokesmen for the Law Society and local schemes endorsed this view and suggested that it was a natural consequence of a socially aware profession which had over the years staffed and administered schemes for indigents at little or no cost . |
| 53 | Many organisations use press releases because it provides them with publicity at little or no cost . |
| 54 | It therefore becomes imperative that if we see an activation of the macroscopic current , that we are able to express that activation in terms of a change in one or the other of those so-called microscopic parameters . |
| 55 | In the late 1860's , Rohde , a sensitive and highly intelligent person , was Nietzsche 's closest friend and so kindred a spirit that ambitious , albeit abortive , joint plans were regularly mooted : a collaborative book on Greek literature in 1868 or a year studying together in Paris ( scheduled for 1869 and frustrated by Nietzsche 's appointment at Basle ) . |
| 56 | Something 's got ta go , whether you give permission before this or an appeal . |
| 57 | This is not the place to summarize the rest of the curriculum debate and many important documents , whether from HMI ( Curriculum 11–16 in 1977 , A View of the Curriculum in 1980 ) or the DES ( A Framework for the School Curriculum in 1980 or The Organization and Content of the 5–16 Curriculum in 1984 ) : Chapter 1.1 provides some detail . |
| 58 | A learned paper from Paris has confirmed this opinion by declaring , after an exhaustive description of my son 's genius , that there was no doubt that this child would at the age of twelve write an opera for one or the other of the Italian theatres ; but everybody thought that a German should reserve such glory for his own country alone . |
| 59 | So far I see little prospect of one or the other . |
| 60 | We already make exceptions to the capital rule where homes are occupied by a spouse , a relative over the age of 60 or a relative who is incapacitated . |