Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] or [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.

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1 For the time being at least this was almost exactly how the French were regarded by the Americans in Vietnam : of little or no account and if not exactly in the ‘ out ’ tray at best their position was ‘ pending ’ .
2 Many officials believed that ‘ as a rule , men of inferior or no education and of low morals resort to petition-drawing as a means of livelihood . ’
3 It has become a floundering nation with little or no direction and , has , for too long , basked in former glory .
4 It is therefore necessary to depart quite sharply from conventional postwar wisdom about the pre-war years — a wisdom that rests on the twin myths of firm punishment in the courts , going hand-in-hand with little or no crime and an untroubled youth — and to state a rather different version of events .
5 This is not the place to summarize the rest of the curriculum debate and many important documents , whether from HMI ( Curriculum 11–16 in 1977 , A View of the Curriculum in 1980 ) or the DES ( A Framework for the School Curriculum in 1980 or The Organization and Content of the 5–16 Curriculum in 1984 ) : Chapter 1.1 provides some detail .
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