Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adj] [conj] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 2 | Anderson initially gives his academic status — " I am the J. S. Mill Professor of Ethics at the University of Cambridge " — invoking both his personal position and the prestige of his academic establishment , but the pomposity of such a reversal of the modesty maxim is absurd when his interlocutors speak little or no English . |
| 3 | Such transmitted signals have little or no effect on lights , motors and electrical equipment but they arc easily detected by an electronic circuit . |
| 4 | You will have noted from the Brintons extract on page 106 that some English texts make little or no use of conjunctions . |
| 5 | Some of the machair lochs have little or no sediment because of intensive wind fetch and wave erosion . |
| 6 | A report produced jointly by the British Medical Association and the Health Visitors Association in 1989 warned that bed and breakfast accommodation constituted a serious risk to health , and many homeless families receive little or no health care . |
| 7 | Eve Bendall ( 1976 ) in ‘ Teaching for reality ’ states that ‘ … the major part of written answers to nursing questions bear little or no relationship to the nursing performance of the writer in 80% of trainees ’ , and she goes on to say ‘ … we are producing trained nursing staff who are ( through no fault of their own ) woefully lacking in many of the skills they need . ’ |
| 8 | The majority of the building regulations have little or no impact on the financial potential of a site , with one or two notable exceptions . |
| 9 | Most GPs have little or no opportunity for heroic intervention for , generally speaking , life-threatening illness is referred immediately to hospital . |
| 10 | Even though most wound patients need little or no rehabilitation , some may need the help of the physiotherapists , occupational therapists and a formal rehabilitation programme . |
| 11 | Conversely if the samples stored at the higher temperatures show little or no change , it may be possible to reduce the frequency of , or even omit , certain of the scheduled examinations at lower temperatures . |
| 12 | Deep-sea fish and whales have little or no light by day or by night , because the sun 's rays can not penetrate far below the surface . |
| 13 | There has been an assumption that young visually impaired children have little or no ability to use tactile maps to find their way around , and it has been argued that there is little to be gained from introducing visually impaired children to maps at an early age . |
| 14 | The type of orientation described above is often given when students have little or no motivation actually to use the library . |
| 15 | For far too long now the motor retail business has been viewed as a male dominated world where women have little or no place . |
| 16 | Native gels , circular dichroism spectra and differential scanning calorimetry ( C. M. Johnson , personal communication ) of purified mutant proteins show that the mutations have little or no effect on the stability and folding of the dimers , suggesting that changes in binding affinity result only from elimination of the intended intermolecular contacts . |
| 17 | This seems to support the view that link verbs play little or no role in pushing the communication forward and therefore have no rhematic status . |