Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [det] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , priority needs to be given to establishing structures that will enable all general practitioners to be involved in influencing the views of the purchasing authorities , including those who have hitherto expressed little or no interest and those who already have a clear interest in participating .
2 In a substantial proportion of cases dischargers normally display little or no objection to the standards imposed by the agency , as a result of preparatory work in negotiations conducted by the field officer together with , in more important cases , his area supervisor .
3 For example , the aerospace sector — one of the most dollar-sensitive industries — has forward cover on its transactions out beyond 1994 and will thus feel little or no benefit from sterling 's fall against the dollar for some time to come .
4 In the world of adults a 15-year-old usually has little or no reputation .
5 On the other side of the argument is the fact that over one-fourth of the respondent firms in the survey did not have an environmental scanning system in evidence , only 5% of the firms were using the most sophisticated environmental scanning system available ( i.e. they have an environmental scanning unit which is tied to the planning process , utilizes computer data banks , involves most countries in which they operate and integrates environmental information on a worldwide basis ) , and 51% of the respondents still reported little or no computerization being used in the process .
6 Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) .
7 But like many articulate and intelligent people , even those trained to search out the hidden structures of literature , even those who have been moved by great art or fascinated by the most remote biographical details from the lives of writers ( such as the information that Ibsen on occasion wrote with a scorpion in a jar on his desk ) , he nonetheless had little or no access to the springs of his own emotions .
8 The Endowment Appeal is to fund the College 's teaching Fellowships — many of which still have little or no endowment — and is aimed primarily at Somervillians and at Trusts .
9 Reports fully and promptly written , and letters thoughtfully and sensibly drafted ( thereby requiring little or no alteration when passed to the supervisor for approval and signature ) , all help create an impression of good work .
10 Still , the sums being disbursed have clearly helped many and the Government hopes to extend the lending ceiling in coming years .
11 An intense field of humming guitars and amplified noise , Kill Laura 's songs similarly bear little or no resemblance to the rest of contemporary music , which is fine by me .
12 But the industries that eventually do pile in will probably bear little or no resemblance to AFFs ‘ profile ’ .
13 The new law , proposed in early July [ see p. 38361 ] , which imposed a ban on parties based on " apostasy , sectarianism , racism , regionalism or anti-Arabism " , also barred all but the Ba'ath Party from operating in the armed forces and security services .
14 Parliamentary counsel in particular become weary of the criticism of their work by lawyers and non-lawyers , who do not appreciate the pressures under which they work and who not infrequently have little or no drafting experience .
15 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 .
16 However , the general precedents often contain little or no guidance about when to use a particular form , or why a particular term is drafted in a particular way ( although many firms ' own in-house precedents are accompanied by a commentary explaining the terms and offering suggestions for modifications ) .
17 Mainly middle-class , they often have little or no concept of the lives of working-class women , who are still the real victims of male oppression .
18 Whereas they all currently specialise either in advanced academic credit-bearing courses of one or two years , or in short courses for groups who often have little or no contact with each other , Northern College 's founders hoped to combine long courses with ten-week courses so that students would benefit from having the continuity of learning associated with the long courses alongside the fresher experiences and perceptions of students on short courses .
19 I would make the point that it has taken thirty five years for us to reach this point where we have comprehensive strategy for York , we have battled with er various greenbelt boundaries in the past , I think there has never been erm a total review development plan requirements for the Greater York area , no more of its implications on possible greenbelt boundaries , we now have that and the greenbelt local plan , Southern Ryedale local plans are being progressed on the basis of that strategy , and there are other plans in the pipeline .
20 Not simply a resurrection in people 's minds — I might well grant that but a resurrection as an objective fact of history , so that it could be said that the causal nexus of history and that of nature were broken ( for there are not resurrections ) .
21 The findings have tended to support the view that the police are held in relatively high esteem , although those polled have invariably had little or no contact with the police in any capacity .
22 Sex Education for Children with Disabilities Here 's a booklet that could be very helpful to parents of disabled children who so often are viewed as not having sexual feelings and who , as a result , have sometimes had little or no sex education .
23 Sex Education for Children with Disabilities Here 's a booklet that could be very helpful to parents of disabled children who so often are viewed as not having sexual feelings and who , as a result , have sometimes had little or no sex education .
24 He 'll get his men in there to stop each and every maul .
25 The payment of social security benefits to millions of people , most of whom would otherwise have little or no income , injects massive amounts of money into the economy .
26 Although officially accorded little or no power , it could be argued that women 's culturally ambiguous position within Hebrew patriarchy resulted in a type of informal sub-structural power dynamic which in turn regenerated the culturally constructed fear of women necessary to patriarchal interests and explicit power concerns .
27 Yet he soon divorced his first wife , quite casually , to cement a treaty against his brother Carloman , and certainly paid little or no attention to orthodox Christian morality .
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