Example sentences of "[adv] with [adj] or [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are , first ( as I have mentioned in chapter 1 ) , a tendency to focus on patterns of change alone with little or no attention to stable patterns of language through time ; second , a tendency to unidimensionality , that is , an inclination to think of the history of a language as the history of a single homogeneous variety and of sound-changes as proceeding in straight lines ; and third , as noted in chapter 2 , a tendency to impose theoretical and ideological orthodoxies on ( sometimes rather sparse ) data that might often be open to alternative kinds of interpretation . |
| 2 | Weir ( in Phillipson et al. , 1986 ) distinguishes between reassurance , warning against ‘ the bland , cosy suggestion that our troubles are all illusory and will melt away with little or no intervention on our part ’ , and encouragement in dealing with retired people . |
| 3 | Dry open plains , semi-desert and desert , usually with little or no scrub . |
| 4 | Unfortunately it 's also common for women to have repeated attacks , often with little or no warning . |
| 5 | Referee Ron Challis watched helpless as the players pushed the ball around with little or no challenge to the man in possession . ’ |
| 6 | Word processors were bulky specialist machines for dedicated producers of text , and operated independently with little or no ability to communicate . |
| 7 | She was painfully aware that if she ever betrayed her ambivalent feelings for him he would end their charade immediately with little or no compunction . |