Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] or [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If no play was possible or a prescribed period was lost this premium payment would entitle the holder to get his money back . |
| 2 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 3 | Masulis studied the effect of changes in corporate structure effected by debt equity swaps and vice versa in which there was little or no net cash inflows or outflows from the firm . |
| 4 | As there was little or no advance warning , those people who had paid for entertainment until 2am understandably felt short-changed . |
| 5 | Pseudoboekella poppei , Parabroteas sarsi and Branchinecta gaini were present in the water column , but there was little or no benthic vegetation or associated microfauna . |
| 6 | At the search stage a child sex murder produced considerable coverage , but there was little or no sexual titillation employed during such trials . |
| 7 | There was little or no overt resistance to the development of business studies degrees , for two sets of reasons . |
| 8 | Group welfare officer Sheila Redmond , pictured left , said : ‘ Dr High advised that there was little or no medical evidence contained in the article and that the uniform pressure exerted during examinations is necessary in order to take a clear x-ray which covers as much of the breast as possible . ’ |
| 9 | Pupils were significantly less likely to have participated in the follow up studies if at baseline they had reported being smokers or having previously smoked or tried cigarettes , if their father or mother was a smoker , or if their father was unemployed or a manual worker . |
| 10 | By the end of the second day she had it firmly fixed in her head that Alain was simply ignoring the fact that she was here , and as this was his house she could n't make her mind up whether this was discourteous or a great relief . |