Example sentences of "[noun] with [adj] or [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those readers with little or no background in geology there are a number of excellent introductory texts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We are aware that the idea that couples go through a courtship with little or no caressing seems out of touch with reality . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Enveloped by a cloud of gases with little or no oxygen , the sun 's ultraviolet rays scorched down onto the earth 's volatile surface . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Low risk activity ( transfer of body fluids with little or no evidence of HIV transmission ) : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Males with little or no shade in their territory often remain unpaired . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Design work was undertaken more or less in his head with little or no paper drawings . |
| 27 | A reasonably low level of background noise means that the pupil with little or no sight can pick up sound cues without undue difficulty and strain . |
| 28 | Remember that many editors produce their magazine with little or no subsidy , so they are , in effect , doing the work for love . |
| 29 | In emergency situations , it seemed , constitutional niceties had no place and the chief executive had to be allowed a free hand , an ominous precedent that was to be followed by a series of major military initiatives by presidents with little or no regard to the war power of congress . |
| 30 | Course co-ordinator Tony Bland said the course was designed for people with little or no experience in the use of media-based resources . |