Example sentences of "[noun sg] with [adj] or [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the more expensive models , a downpayment is required at the start of the scheme , but it is still possible to obtain a car with little or no downpayment with the hire charges being met entirely by the mobility allowance . |
| 2 | We are aware that the idea that couples go through a courtship with little or no caressing seems out of touch with reality . |
| 3 | The first practice game for Brian Horton as manchester city manager was in the back garden of his woodstock home with twins matthew and lucy … some United fans are glad to see him go … sadly his passion for good football … his achievement of keeping a small club alfoat with little or no money has n't been given enough credit … he did the club proud … |
| 4 | The first practice game for Brian Horton as manchester city manager was in the back garden of his woodstock home with twins matthew and lucy … some United fans are glad to see him go … sadly his passion for good football … his achievement of keeping a small club alfoat with little or no money has n't been given enough credit … he did the club proud … |
| 5 | If you are teaching a heterogeneous mob of children in an afternoon session with little or no equipment , the advice given is clearly not for you : you are a ‘ sub-teacher ’ , teaching a ‘ sub-class ’ , The official curriculum plan washes its hands of you . |
| 6 | Each of our national defence forces has its own command structure and its own training methods , and chooses its own equipment with little or no standardisation . |
| 7 | If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 . |
| 8 | Whether it is one side 's cry of the ‘ radical uncertainty ’ of authentic faith or the other side 's reiteration of the ‘ leap of faith ’ , we are offered an imposing edifice of faith with little or no mention of foundations . |
| 9 | This is standard practice in more tropical countries where there are ‘ dust devils ’ or ‘ willy willies ’ which can produce a 40-knot wind in almost any direction with little or no warning . |
| 10 | ‘ Crew members are tearing dolphins out of the net and dumping them on the deck with little or no attention to whether they are alive or dead . |
| 11 | Furthermore , if we take seriously Black 's claim that his specimen metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ serves at once to render man wolf-like and to humanize wolves , a reversible metaphor could be imagined at the level of a word , a sentence , or a discourse in which each term was engaged in a metaphoric interaction with one or a number of other terms , organizing them , structuring them and in turn being structured by them . |
| 12 | In the other schools the head or the senior management team still decided on how to divide up the money with little or no consultation . |
| 13 | If a very simple model is taken , representing stream patterns developing on a uniform surface with little or no slope , then no dominant process would control the direction of stream flow . |
| 14 | Design work was undertaken more or less in his head with little or no paper drawings . |
| 15 | A reasonably low level of background noise means that the pupil with little or no sight can pick up sound cues without undue difficulty and strain . |
| 16 | Remember that many editors produce their magazine with little or no subsidy , so they are , in effect , doing the work for love . |
| 17 | If you are able to balance straights yourself or have asked a nutritionist to do it for you all well and good , but for the horse owner with little or no experience in feeding , compound feeds are the answer . |
| 18 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 19 | The world of publishing was a ferocious one , and for Lear — a gullible young man with little or no business acumen , and with an expensive project on his hands , — it was to prove ruinous . |
| 20 | These last jetés would be completely out of place in Lander 's Etudes where a strong ‘ flick ’ outwards of the leading foot propels the dancer straight forwards through the air with little or no time to pause in arabesque on landing because the continuous repetition of this strong movement is intended to cover as much ground in as little time as possible . |
| 21 | When camping , she generally wore an old-fashioned dress with little or no decoration . |
| 22 | This model sees local authorities as having a subordinate relationship to central government with little or no discretion in the task of implementing national policies . |
| 23 | They should aim to enable individuals to use their personal emotional and intellectual resources to modify their attitudes and behaviour and to learn new social skills so as to achieve a stable way of life with diminished or no use of alcohol . |
| 24 | Appearance , texture and smell : Unadjusted a detergent would be a thin , translucent , colourless liquid with little or no smell or a white powder generally unattractive . |
| 25 | The perennial question for television executives is : how on earth does one make arts programmes interesting to an audience with little or no enthusiasm for the arts ? |
| 26 | It has become a floundering nation with little or no direction and , has , for too long , basked in former glory . |
| 27 | More passive , less constructive activity with little or no end result , will have been the norm , like watching television or having a pint at the local pub . |
| 28 | Farming areas having permanent natural handicaps , viz. poor land with limited or no potential for increased production except at excessive cost . |
| 29 | ‘ I mean , ’ Corbett said forcefully , ‘ that for two decades Alexander III ruled this country with little or no assistance from the French . |
| 30 | Newspaper publicity always gave the impression that the school could train anyone from scratch with little or no dance experience so young readers felt that they could just turn up without an appointment and would immediately be seen by this apparently motherly woman called Jennie Tiller . |