Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Preston still referred to it privately as the God slot , as he had indicated to Kate it made little or no reference to the Almighty . |
| 2 | Pointing , at best , some sixty degrees off the wind , and drifting downwind at an alarming rate , we made little or no progress during the next three days . |
| 3 | This made little or no sense to them . |
| 4 | When her food arrived , she appeared to eat without appetite , made little or no response to any attempts at conversation and left the table without taking dessert or coffee . |
| 5 | In a Financial Times poll of senior businessmen , 70% said the budget made little or no difference to their companies or their view of government policy . |
| 6 | In the 1960s and 1970s a substantial body of evidence emerged which claimed that schools made little or no difference to pupils ' outcomes . |
| 7 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 8 | Apart from delays at border crossings during the June crackdown , Hong Kong firms experienced little or no disruption at their Guangdong operations . |
| 9 | Bartlett 's ideas on schemata became popular when the development of computers meant that theories of this type could be programmed ( e.g. Minsky , 1975 ; Rumelhart , 1975 ; Schank , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 11 | As the Court on Oct. 13 shifted attention to the body of documentary evidence brought before it , it became clear that a decision on summoning the final witnesses , including Gorbachev , would be postponed until after the document stage . |
| 12 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 13 | Furthermore , it became clear that a number of the parties would be arriving some time before the three days set aside for the conference , thus giving themselves time to prepare their ground and gauge the mood of fellow guests , though their exact arrival dates were , again , uncertain . |
| 14 | In the extensive research undertaken for the book it became clear that a number of particular issues posed the greatest challenges to potential returners and to prospective employers . |
| 15 | Page 29 Pound pressure : The Bank of England spent $1bn as the pound came under attack when it became clear that an increase in West German rates today is a virtual certainty . |
| 16 | THE BANK of England yesterday spent a reported $1bn after the pound came under sustained attack once it became clear that an increase in West German interest rates today is almost certain . |
| 17 | However , given the readiness of our subjects to talk at length about their drug use , the time limits placed on the research , and the possibility of a number of informants being sentenced and/or convicted before the second interview took place , it quickly became clear that the majority of interviewees would probably be seen only once and that in-depth interviews should be conducted on first contact , if that suited the informant . |
| 18 | It became clear that the quality of the programme was the key to degree of success . |
| 19 | It was not until the auction , however , on the third day , that became clear that the roof of the Collector 's collapsed will had once more been shored up with the stoutest timbers . |
| 20 | During the next few weeks , however , it became clear that the result of the election was not yet a foregone conclusion . |
| 21 | Right from the first evening of video recording , when we realised that BSL ( or deaf people 's signing ) was not only a manual language , because of its animated involvement of the deaf person , it became clear that the key to understanding the learning task for deaf people lies in the examination of the language itself . |
| 22 | It became clear that the effectiveness of our work in the industry area would require the involvement of many staff , through an integrated approach to our school-industry relationship . |
| 23 | Richard disputed this before the king in 1247 , and was still in pursuit of justice in July 1248 . |
| 24 | If news bore little or no relation to a person 's experience , then it might not be remembered . |
| 25 | Very severe problems will arise if there is a drastic change from the present back to methods which involved little or no use of pesticides . |
| 26 | Lloyd 's List later cited a deal whereby the Pacific Valour was to shift a cargo of 240,000 tonnes from the Gulf to Japan at W37 , apparently a fairly durable rate , as the same publication reported W37-40 as the range over which discussion occurred for a voyage from Kharg to Japan in 1984 . |
| 27 | In a global rating questionnaire , patients reported little or no benefit during the air phase compared with moderate to much benefit during the oxygen phase . |
| 28 | Patients reported little or no benefit during the air phase compared with moderate to much benefit during the oxygen phase ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 29 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 30 | More and more , 1 became convinced that the priority for the 1990s should be families with children . |