Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] or [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mother or , more often , the father who is separated for long periods or repeated shorter periods from the home ( through professional requirements , for example , or by prison sentence ) stands in danger of becoming an " inconsiderable " member of the family — one who is of the family group but who , in the child 's eyes , plays little or no part in its procedures , decisions and activities . |
| 2 | This question is made somewhat difficult to answer because one of the effects of the emphasis on the facts and merits of the particular case in Fleet Street Casuals is that the issue of standing now often receives little or no attention from the courts and is sometimes the subject of concessions by the respondent . |
| 3 | The Warsaw pact offers little or no help to Hungary in disputes with other East Europeans . |
| 4 | The bare infinitive in exclamations evokes therefore an incidence of the infinitive 's event to its support which can only be represented as potential since the speaker feels it has little or no chance of being real , of finding a place in real time . |
| 5 | If you do feel hungry , you can eat anything you like — as long as it has little or no fat in it . |
| 6 | Already the estoppel doctrine has little or no relevance to transactions on The Stock Exchange under the TALISMAN system ; The Exchange and the member firms will ensure that the parties get what they have bargained for . |
| 7 | These results also demonstrate that the protein complex has little or no affinity for the double stranded PPT element ( WT ) as assayed by gel retardation . |
| 8 | The protein binds to only one strand of the PPT element and has little or no specificity for the double stranded DNA species . |
| 9 | Earlier this season Jim McCorry 's men accounted for Fermanagh in the league by the minimum margin , but that has little or no bearing on today 's match . |
| 10 | British political science has little or no literature on political leadership . |
| 11 | ‘ She has little or no sense of her own importance , ’ she might say . |
| 12 | Unless the winch or car is very under-powered , pulling up steeper on a fast launch has little or no effect on launching speed . |
| 13 | Clearly , the number of males a female mates with has little or no effect on the numbers of her offspring . |
| 14 | Although treatment of secondary hyperprolactinaemia with a dopamine agonist may reduce plasma prolactin concentrations , it has little or no effect on the growth of a macroadenoma . |
| 15 | A more careful look at Fig 1 , reveals that , between the ages of about 15 and 18 years the age at first marriage has little or no effect on the age when the first birth occurs . |
| 16 | Considering that the majority of the general public has little or no interest in the game , cricket is extremely well served by the BBC both in terms of the quantity and quality of presentation . |
| 17 | Each one recognises sectional interests within the profession but has little or no regard to the public at large or the potential client . |
| 18 | Every member I have spoken to believes it is in all our best interests to maintain the profession 's high standards and to remove from the register any auditor who has little or no regard for them . |
| 19 | If he considers that the proposed change has little or no impact on functionality , cost , or timescale , the Change Management Procedures can be bypassed and there is no need for any further action . |
| 20 | If the Development Manager considers the change proposed has little or no impact on functionality , cost , or timescale when he should allow the incorporation of the change into the design and ensure that it is described in the design documentation . |
| 21 | A very simple thing which works every time and causes little or no disturbance to the fish . |
| 22 | Causes minimum or no discomfort to the patient while wearing the dressing as well as when the dressing is removed |
| 23 | They too complain of pain whose severity bears little or no relationship to the tissue destruction . |
| 24 | Interestingly , the existence of collective action problems of this kind bears little or no relation to the preference intensities of the actors . |
| 25 | Hence the pattern of group organization bears little or no relation to the distribution of intense or apathetic preferences among voters . |
| 26 | It bears little or no relation to ideas of marriage held by non-Christian races in Africa and Asia . |
| 27 | In the case of a one-man company an independent auditor must be appointed , and if the registered capital exceeds 20 million forints or the number of members exceeds twenty-five or the number of employees on the average exceeds 200 , a supervisory board must also be created . |
| 28 | Everyone thinks the implicit extension includes one or the other of these latter propositions , but they disagree which , because they disagree which solution best interprets the abstract goal on which they agree of equality of opportunity in court . |
| 29 | And if the elevator gets blocked or the gearing on the conveyor breaks down — it 's all go until we correct the fault . |
| 30 | Greek mental-health legislation is out of date and gives little or no protection to patients . |