Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] or [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For every Western aid worker , there are at least five Somali aid workers who , like Hawa the nurse , put themselves at greater risk , work longer hours for little or no money , and provide a body of local people who may be able to continue their work in health care or administration after the fighting is over . |
| 2 | List Relationships can list full or partial tight relationships for all or a part of the database . |
| 3 | A little awkward piece of one or t' other I think her . |
| 4 | At that moment of experimental interrogation it must choose the stark alternative of one or the other . |
| 5 | For those readers with little or no background in geology there are a number of excellent introductory texts . |
| 6 | Freud 's difficulties arose because he did not fully appreciate the need for co-operation between patient and therapist : he was inclined to treat his patients as docile subjects with little or no role to play . |
| 7 | For the more expensive models , a downpayment is required at the start of the scheme , but it is still possible to obtain a car with little or no downpayment with the hire charges being met entirely by the mobility allowance . |
| 8 | We are aware that the idea that couples go through a courtship with little or no caressing seems out of touch with reality . |
| 9 | The first practice game for Brian Horton as manchester city manager was in the back garden of his woodstock home with twins matthew and lucy … some United fans are glad to see him go … sadly his passion for good football … his achievement of keeping a small club alfoat with little or no money has n't been given enough credit … he did the club proud … |
| 10 | The first practice game for Brian Horton as manchester city manager was in the back garden of his woodstock home with twins matthew and lucy … some United fans are glad to see him go … sadly his passion for good football … his achievement of keeping a small club alfoat with little or no money has n't been given enough credit … he did the club proud … |
| 11 | These different roles played by the designs normally existed at a subconscious level , and different societies have attached more weight to one or the other . |
| 12 | As as we 've actually had policy er criterion eleven raised by Mr , erm I don' think there 's any dissenting voice about the weight on that or the importance of that particular criterion , is that regional and sub-regional policies . |
| 13 | They are erm it was er steak and kidney pie , brussels sprouts , carrots and bo plain boiled potatoes I could only eat about half the kidney and meat , I cou I could only eat about a third of the pastry , could n't cope with the carrots at all or the brussel sprouts , they were beautiful brussel sprouts like little cabbages , you know I could only eat a couple of them ! |
| 14 | The designer can remove the violation by one or a combination of three courses of action . |
| 15 | I 'm certainly not going to er w to say let's give you a trial of this or a trial of that , until we know what 's happened with your chest , so |
| 16 | The Secretary of State for Wales was authorised to give financial assistance to LEAs for the teaching of Welsh or the use of Welsh as a medium for teaching other subjects . |
| 17 | Most of them are poor people who give their services to their neighbours and communities for little or no charge . |
| 18 | Such a grant or renewal is a purpose under the Act of 1963 or the Act of 1968 and not of the 1976 Act . |
| 19 | Acts that define the powers of the various state organs ( for example , the 1911 and 1949 Parliament Acts ) and acts that define the relationship between Crown and Parliament ( notably the Bill of Rights of 1689 ) , between the component elements of the nation ( the Act of Union with Scotland of 1706 , for example ) , between the United Kingdom and the European Communities ( the 1972 European Communities Act ) , and between the state and the individual ( as with the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 or the Administration of Justice Act of 1960 ) clearly constitute important provisions of the Constitution . |
| 20 | Ideally , that should n't be important , of course , since both TrueType and Adobe fonts ought to perform equally well ( I do n't want to get into an argument about which is better here ) , but adherents of one or the other will want to know which they 're using — and when you 've got over 200 fonts on your system , as some folks do , you ca n't always remember which is which . |
| 21 | If you are teaching a heterogeneous mob of children in an afternoon session with little or no equipment , the advice given is clearly not for you : you are a ‘ sub-teacher ’ , teaching a ‘ sub-class ’ , The official curriculum plan washes its hands of you . |
| 22 | All of the uses of the to infinitive with full verbs in the corpus fall into one or the other of these two categories . |
| 23 | Cumbria and North Wales , both grass areas with little or no cropping , preferred the autumn when the winter feed was already secured and there was no harvest to worry about . |
| 24 | Each of our national defence forces has its own command structure and its own training methods , and chooses its own equipment with little or no standardisation . |
| 25 | Mozart wrote several symphonies during the Italian visits , some displaying Italian influences such as first movements with little or no development sections , or linked first and second movements . |
| 26 | We 've discussed several areas today , the effects of retiring from work on little or no income , the consequences of your premature death on the lifestyle of your family , the result of ill health on your standard of living and providing you with a custom built savings plan . |
| 27 | Informal enquiries may be made to Professor David Storey on 0203–523692 or the Director of the S.M.E. Centre , Ian Watson on 0203–523741 , extension 2233 . |
| 28 | There 's about another two weeks after that or a week . |
| 29 | Between these two regions , a step in the ion energy will be observed , corresponding to the period of little or no reconnection between the pulses . |
| 30 | Enveloped by a cloud of gases with little or no oxygen , the sun 's ultraviolet rays scorched down onto the earth 's volatile surface . |