Example sentences of "[is] [det] or [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Within this section attention will be given to preparation not only for the selling task , in which there is little or no scope for the salesperson to bargain with the buyer , but also for where selling may involve a degree of negotiation between buyer and seller .
2 Whether personal or commercial , business will be terminated where their is little or no likelihood of profit .
3 Second , there is little or no cooperation with other US museums .
4 There is little or no deterrent for these fiendish acts .
5 There is little or no discussion of principle .
6 Sometimes there is little or no overlap between the scores of individuals in Group A and the individuals in Group B ( see L. Milroy 1980 : 161 for an example ) , but more often there is considerable overlap .
7 There is little or no sense of diachrony or process in the work of Barthes or Lévi-Strauss .
8 However , there is little or no evidence for this .
9 Sometimes , where occupation is particularly dense , there is little or no evidence for any associated property to the rear , suggesting that their occupants either worked land elsewhere or derived their livelihood from other specializations .
10 There is little or no realization amongst reformers , however , that any effective change in budgetary relationships must necessarily alter the outcomes of the budgetary process … proposed reforms inevitably contain important implications for the system ; that is , for the ‘ who gets what ’ of government decisions .
11 Finally , as some of them are geographically isolated , there is little or no possibility of merging with other institutions .
12 There is little or no tradition of democratic government in these new states and the influence of Western liberal democratic traditions is not always likely to be great .
13 Thus , for example as Revill has pointed out , in programmed instruction students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with other students , or with the teacher .
14 But students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with the rest of the group or with the lecturer .
15 Except in the more extreme cases mentioned there is little or no significance in them .
16 But without the initial pump-priming operation by the Government , there is little or no chance of attracting this secondary wave of employment .
17 Dormer windows , fitted into alcoves in the roof , are difficult to treat because there is little or no space into which the curtains can be drawn back .
18 There is little or no room for discretion with programmed decisions .
19 An interesting feature of all these ducks ( for which I have no explanation to offer ) is that unlike most species of European ducks there is little or no difference between the sexes .
20 If there is little or no improvement on the Step 2 diet , then it may be because there is a general yeast sensitivity , due to candidiasis ( see p 184 ) .
21 There is little or no hint of the compassion and humanity which lay beneath the cool exterior .
22 In most opinion reports from the last months of the war , there is little or no mention of the Führer and the attitudes of the population towards him .
23 The authoritarian philosophy , according to the authors , sees the press as something to be controlled because it is a potential nuisance ; there is little or no conception of the press as a possibly positive contributor to human progress and development .
24 There is little or no heating for staff
25 But in reality there is little or no training for the assistant teacher 's role in school management .
26 With so much pollution flowing down the Taff and Ely rivers , there is little or no prospect of the 600-acre lake being used for contact water sports — the health risks are expected to be far too high .
27 And th and can I restate the view of British Rail , there is little or no prospect of a new station being opened up on the east coast main route main line , because of the four track configuration , which I 'm sure you 'll have seen on your when you 've come up to York by tr by train .
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