Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is therefore little or no scope for the clearing member who is not also a market member . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The perennial question for television executives is : how on earth does one make arts programmes interesting to an audience with little or no enthusiasm for the arts ? |
| 5 | There was little or no provision for the " gutter " women ; the heavy drinkers who slept rough . |
| 6 | The result of social and cognitive tests administered to the children between the ages of one and three obliged the authors to conclude that their data provided ‘ little or no support for the notion that how a mother interacts with her baby during the baby 's first few months of life has any particular consequences for later social or cognitive development ’ . |
| 7 | The protein binds to only one strand of the PPT element and has little or no specificity for the double stranded DNA species . |
| 8 | Darwin himself had warned that this might be an impossible task , given the enormous gaps in the fossil record , which left little or no evidence for the exact course of many transitions . |
| 9 | She knew , of course , that men were driven by lusts of the flesh , desires that they satisfied with little or no regard for the females they wanted , but , strangely enough , she would not have considered fitzAlan to be a man to lose control of himself for that reason . |
| 10 | In the more notorious slum districts , there appears to have been little or no respect for the law . |
| 11 | But in reality there is little or no training for the assistant teacher 's role in school management . |
| 12 | Poor as it is , Greece still spends 6.2% of its annual income on defence , almost three times as much as the average for the European Community . |
| 13 | The Wedding Present are seen by many as a victory for the ordinary and in a perverse way , their lack of image has become their image . |
| 14 | But , as far as James was concerned , this was no more than a PRECONDITION for the abolition of slavery . |
| 15 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 16 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 17 | ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’ |
| 18 | The Paris museum ( colloquially known as the Jardin des Plantes ) was much more than a museum for the display of exotic specimens . |
| 19 | Latterly , however , it had become no more than a framework for the recording of successes , with little attention being paid to problems such as the intensification of production or the improvement of food supplies . |
| 20 | Contrasts , however , is more than a manifesto for the Gothic : it is , implicitly , a diagnosis of the social and cultural evils of the time , and a proposal for political and social change . |
| 21 | The last leg of the expedition was proving more than a trial for the young naturalist . |
| 22 | ‘ The formal words about the necessity of the ‘ neutrality ’ of Afghanistan contained in the Carrington Plan ’ were described as ‘ no more than a screen for the creation of conditions in which it would be possible to achieve a restoration of the regime overthrown by the Afghan people ’ . |
| 23 | There was a minute cabin on the barge , no more than a place for the bargee to take shelter . |
| 24 | Unlike Wang , which has effectively withdrawn from systems manufacturing and is little more than a reseller for the IBM line , Bull will be taking up both the manufacturing and design rights it negotiated with IBM back in February ( UX No 370 ) . |
| 25 | That was a crucial part of turning the Royal Family into no more than a diversion for the public . |
| 26 | The 1961 Programme , for instance , had defined itself as a ‘ Programme for the building of communist society ’ ; the revised version of 1986 was no more than a Programme for the ‘ planned and all-round perfection of socialism ’ and for further advance to communism through the country 's ‘ accelerated socio-economic development ’ . |
| 27 | The tenant 's adviser should be on his guard against such a provision since it is little more than a trap for the tenant , particularly since the figure specified by the landlord need not be a bona fide and genuine pre-estimate of the market rent ( Amalgamated Estates Ltd v Joystretch Manufacturing Ltd ( 1980 ) 257 EG 489 ) . |
| 28 | The first Christians also knew that divine resources were more than a match for the dark powers . |
| 29 | If you can raise your eyes from the water long enough you 'll see that the scenery is more than a match for the fishing — it 's simply breathtaking . |
| 30 | The man endued with the Holy Spirit is more than a match for the unclean spirits which are such a feature in Mark 's account . |