Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes there is little or no overlap between the scores of individuals in Group A and the individuals in Group B ( see L. Milroy 1980 : 161 for an example ) , but more often there is considerable overlap . |
| 2 | There is therefore little or no scope for the clearing member who is not also a market member . |
| 3 | Within this section attention will be given to preparation not only for the selling task , in which there is little or no scope for the salesperson to bargain with the buyer , but also for where selling may involve a degree of negotiation between buyer and seller . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Patients reported little or no benefit during the air phase compared with moderate to much benefit during the oxygen phase ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 6 | The authoritarian family , on the other hand , is characterized by unequal inheritance and unbroken patrimony to just one son , by only the married heir cohabiting with his parents , and by little or no marriage between the children of two brothers . |
| 7 | If a superiority of one half-field derives from some fixed advantage of the contralateral cerebral hemisphere for the stimulus material in question then comparatively minor procedural differences ( e.g. Hiscock and Bergstrom , 1982 ) should have little or no influence on the outcome of an experiment . |
| 8 | To the thin-skinned Ceauşescus , the broadcasts of Radio Free Europe and the BBC were intolerable , but they recognized that the émigré broadcasters had little or no influence in the West . |
| 9 | This course has proved of great value to students with little or no knowledge of the ancient languages , especially those whose interests are mainly in English or other European literatures , or in art history . |
| 10 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 11 | But students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with the rest of the group or with the lecturer . |
| 12 | The ladinos teach mostly in Spanish and have little or no grasp of the languages or culture of their pupils . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Bruce , defending the expansion of university extra-mural work since the war , saw the future role of the WEA primarily as a student-body rather than as one with a teaching responsibility , ‘ an organisation of all adult students ’ with little or no emphasis on the working-class element : ‘ in the general interest , it would seem best … for the WEA to concentrate its attention upon the stimulation and organisation of demand … all but the most elementary pioneer work could become the responsibility of Extra-Mural Departments or local authorities ’ with the WEA left as ‘ the mouthpiece of lively , conscious student demand ’ . |
| 15 | By not considering this as a possibility , the pilot gives himself little or no hope of a safe landing , especially if the alternative is a very low 360° turn and he is already flying rather slowly . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He talks enthusiastically about ‘ getting back to some real police work ’ in ‘ the real world ’ , even though his responsibilities as Divisional Commander will be mainly administrative and give him little or no contact with the ‘ dangerous classes ’ . |
| 18 | There are young autistic adults living independent lives and usefully employed , and others who have made little or no contact with the world they have entered . |
| 19 | ‘ I mean , ’ Corbett said forcefully , ‘ that for two decades Alexander III ruled this country with little or no assistance from the French . |
| 20 | These results also demonstrate that the protein complex has little or no affinity for the double stranded PPT element ( WT ) as assayed by gel retardation . |
| 21 | The LBS report was uncompromising ; it showed that even with full trains , there was little or no money at the bottom end of the market , whereas with first-class and full-dining trains , there was considerable profit potential . |
| 22 | Otherwise it will yield little or no water from the impermeable confining layer . |
| 23 | A range of critics ( including Coate , 1983 ; Hamel and Prahalad , 1985 ; Porter , 1985 ; Naylor , 1982 , 1986 ; Prahalad and Doz , 1987 ) have emphasized that the validity of the portfolio-matrix approach depends fundamentally on the existence of SBUs which have little or no interdependence in a corporate group 's portfolio . |
| 24 | In Yugoslavia , Albania , North Korea and China a rather different pattern developed : in all these countries the communist party came to power through its leadership of a popular struggle against foreign occupation , with little or no help from the USSR in doing so . |
| 25 | In the early years after 1885 purity groups received little or no help from the state in implementing the new act . |
| 26 | My staff were faced with untidy heaps of apparatus apparatus in equipment rooms , and received little or no help from the student representatives So and then it sort of flabbers on a bit saying they 're |
| 27 | A producer is chosen to mould the natural sound of the band into a new format , and the mesmerised band wander out of the studio clutching a product bearing little or no resemblance to the demo they went in with . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Although there are procedures for putting ‘ interrogatories ’ to another party at the pre-trial stage , they are little used in practice and bear little or no resemblance to the United States practice of ‘ oral depositions ’ before trial . |
| 30 | By contrast , social science in Britain , with the possible exception of economics , was largely unrecognised and underfinanced having little or no foothold in the elite establishments of higher education . |