Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In childhood children run wild , are subject to little or no educative influence and are generally indulged . |
| 2 | Unlike the indigenous tribes , they often have little or no agricultural know-how and simply slash and burn the forest as they go . |
| 3 | They have experienced considerable movement and disruption in care , and have inadequate knowledge of their past , too little suitable preparation for leaving care , and little or no reliable help and support once they have left . |
| 4 | There is little or no formal requirement and few incentives . |
| 5 | He has little or no social life and has severe problems in evolving any kind of friendship . ’ |
| 6 | Meanwhile , military spokesmen made optimistic statements , based on " head counts " of the Vietcong dead — whereas independent journalists on the spot reported little or no military progress and emphasized the widespread opposition within the country to the Diem regime . |
| 7 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 8 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 9 | Please take the trouble to write this or a similar message and look at it often . |
| 10 | What happens in the blast furnace is that the slag is lighter than the molten iron and it collects on top of the molten iron and by some means that I s |
| 11 | This makes it absolutely clear that the early road and the drains belong in a mid to late second-century context . |
| 12 | It was quite clear that the immense strain and overwork was taking its toll , and two days later of course he had to give up and have a rest . ’ |
| 13 | The four speed box would be more economical than the three speed and is a relatively easy conversion . |
| 14 | ‘ He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat . |
| 15 | The scope of the restitutionary remedy depends upon the statutory language used and it is , to my mind , immaterial that the restitutionary remedy and the compensatory remedy may overlap . |
| 16 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 17 | However the conference had felt it advisable to avoid this and the Labour Party and the TUC were asked instead to formulate a policy which would rally the whole working-class movement against Fascism and Capitalism . |
| 18 | This gave the sociology of knowledge a specific task in studying the sociological features on which systems of knowledge were dependent but the critical edge and the proposition of relationism had disappeared . |
| 19 | Members of two Norwegian environmental groups have staged spectacular protests against oil exploration in the Barents Sea , which they claim is too risky because the inhospitable climate and months of winter darkness would make a clean-up operation impossible in case of a pollution accident . |
| 20 | Rap is as old as the human voice and just as versatile , so what follows here is just a progress report : four different artists with four different attitudes to the word |
| 21 | Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets . |
| 22 | Gertrude 's lush memoir might well be fanciful : what , after all , is more sentimentally alluring than a dead genius and an adolescent beach holiday ? |
| 23 | The nave dates from 1110 ; it is lower than the Gothic choir and still has its original fenestration ( 337 ) . |
| 24 | Recorded crime fell in eight police force areas the rate of increase in violent crime was significantly lower than the previous year and the rise in reported thefts was the smallest for four years . |
| 25 | For many people it 's riskier than the next approach and there is no guarantee of results ; but you will certainly have made a powerful impression on others . |
| 26 | I had always suspected him of being rather more solid than the average person and this collision provided complete confirmation . |
| 27 | Above all , it is far less retiring than the European race and often approaches human settlements in search of the rodents that are plentiful there . |
| 28 | The second requires the child to make a verbal response to either a verbal or a non-verbal stimulus and is used as a measure of the child 's ability to produce spoken language . |
| 29 | Second , Mr Deng was less an idealist than a sensible moderniser and nationalist . |
| 30 | ‘ It was , perhaps , appropriate that the bereaved fiancee and husband should find mutual consolation although no one who has seen the beautiful Barbara Berowne could suppose that the marriage was merely a matter of fraternal duty . ’ |