Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adj] [conj] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | After all , brewers are not paying tax on beer that contains little or no alcohol , so it should be half the price of normal beer . |
2 | That is , inner cities are perceived as ‘ deviant communities ’ , areas which need to be turned around and brought back into the mainstream , a mainstream that requires little or no restructuring or reform . |
3 | In Catalonia there was little criticism of a territorial aristocracy that took little or no interest in its lands : the large farmers were confident and secure in an aristocratic rural society where an early and major defeat of the economic power of the nobility had left the masovers a rural bourgeoisie . |
4 | We would have to develop an ingrained self-confidence in our ability to navigate across featureless terrain without any back-up whatsoever and using maps that gave little or no detail . |
5 | Also , current recommendations for screening for stroke and major coronary events by blood pressure measurements are not rational in that they take little account of the absolute risk of these diseases , specifying cut off levels for blood pressure screening that take little or no account of age . |
6 | Weather did not deter them ; it rained most of the time and they traversed ground that had little or no trace of thoroughfare . |
7 | Last autumn , the price board proposed amendments that , among other things , would limit the price of a new drug that provides moderate or no improvement over existing drugs to the median international price or the price of all drugs in that category . |
8 | However , there are some cloudy phrases that have little or no value . |
9 | The middle school which both her older boys attended was a long walk from her home and made little or no attempt to involve parents . |
10 | Mr Chin had foreseen this difficulty and made sure that no child had majority control of any of the family companies . |
11 | The protein binds to only one strand of the PPT element and has little or no specificity for the double stranded DNA species . |
12 | A very simple thing which works every time and causes little or no disturbance to the fish . |
13 | My staff were faced with untidy heaps of apparatus apparatus in equipment rooms , and received little or no help from the student representatives So and then it sort of flabbers on a bit saying they 're |
14 | Residents in both kinds of estate are by and large socially self-sufficient and feel little or no necessity to create close relations with their Shetlander neighbours . |
15 | Although there are procedures for putting ‘ interrogatories ’ to another party at the pre-trial stage , they are little used in practice and bear little or no resemblance to the United States practice of ‘ oral depositions ’ before trial . |
16 | Greek mental-health legislation is out of date and gives little or no protection to patients . |
17 | The reason for being aware of sexism in language is that it biases experience constantly towards the male sex and gives little or no prominence to the role of women in society . |
18 | Initially , the minorities who were skilled and had competence in English , as well as those who were unskilled and had little or no competence in English , were offered unskilled jobs in textile firms , foundries , hospitals and in public transport . |
19 | Ward J. was faced with a situation which , in the context of an adult patient , is novel to the courts and had little or no guidance from the reported authorities . |
20 | The ladinos teach mostly in Spanish and have little or no grasp of the languages or culture of their pupils . |
21 | Even at 70 , the energetic Mr Chance can not do enough for those he feels have been restricted in their activities and their education and have little or no chance of mixing with the community . |
22 | Counter-trade is used by countries that suffer from acute foreign currency shortages and have little or no credit facilities to finance normal trade flows . |
23 | women who are members of religious communities and have little or no income . |
24 | For instance , some events will persist briefly , have immediate consequences , minor transgenerational effects and have little or no potential for non-human mortality ( an air crash is an example ) . |
25 | For example , some subordinates may enthusiastically welcome your enquiries , respond readily to indirect guidance and need little or no prompting to seek out information . |
26 | Each one recognises sectional interests within the profession but has little or no regard to the public at large or the potential client . |
27 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
28 | Thus in cases in which pigment is produced , the presence of the 3.4-kb transcript correlates completely with the presence of black pigment , consistent with the effects of p mutations on eumelanosomes , while having little or no effect on pheomelanosomes . |