Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] or [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laissez-faire style Subordinates are given little or no direction at all , and are allowed to establish their own objectives and make all their own decisions . |
| 2 | Although SunSoft — indeed Sun as a whole — has given little or no ground on the issue of direct support for the Open Software Foundation 's Motif graphical user interface on its own Sparc systems , Watkins says the company is more than happy for third parties to supply it . |
| 3 | The areas covered include some which have attracted little or no interest in the past , but are considered worthy of investigation because of their geological setting . |
| 4 | Mr Rayner also attacked Cleveland County Council 's plans for a light rail transit system and said Middlesbrough Borough Council had made little or no provision for cyclists . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The schools where staff had made little or no input into financial decisions were both experiencing cutbacks equivalent to a cut of 5 per cent to 10 per cent of teaching staff . |
| 7 | Few heads had allocated any of their extra capitation to the development of productive links with parents and the community , while nearly all of them considered that such PNP resources as the Authority 's advisory and support staff , the INSET programme and even the refurbishment of their own schools had made little or no impact on home-school links , however effective they may have been in furthering the programme 's other objectives . |
| 8 | Charming she thought , feeling acutely humiliated , especially as it drove home the fact that she 'd made little or no impact upon this man . |
| 9 | Found in savanna woodland and grassland wherever there is such terrain throughout subsaharan Africa , the warthog is one of the classic wild pigs , an animal whose distinctive countenance seems to stick in the mind of anyone who 's ever seen one or a picture of one . |
| 10 | Generation has a significant role in this paradigm because in many bilingual communities , the first generation who settled in Britain from abroad were native speakers of a language very unlike English and had had little or no exposure to English . |
| 11 | The role of generalization decrement in these experiments can be investigated by comparing the effects on excitatory responding of an added stimulus that has had little or no pre-exposure with those produced by a stimulus that has undergone latent inhibition training . |
| 12 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that in July 1960 the Soviet leaders could have had little or no intimation of exactly how imbalanced their economic relationship with Cuba was destined to become . |
| 13 | At the same time , they will find themselves caught up in moves to develop new organizational procedures , new teaching situations and new assessment techniques , many of which , such as one-to-one dialogue and negotiation with pupils , they will have had little or no experience of . |
| 14 | Project 2000 students are involved in preparation and presentation of seminars , as are polytechnic and university undergraduates , whereas the vast majority of nurses whose route to registration was via a traditional preregistration course might have had little or no experience of teaching . |
| 15 | The consumer has had little or no choice in the matter : without organic food widely available it has not been possible to choose to avoid creating nitrate pollution by avoiding conventionally grown crops ( in any case , organic farming can still create some nitrate pollution , see also below ) . |
| 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 | Most primary teachers had had little or no science in their initial training . |
| 18 | The woman is often regarded as the nutritional head of the household , and yet she has had little or no training for this job . |
| 19 | The curriculum at the medical schools does not make the study of dermato-venereology compulsory , and it is not unusual for a doctor to qualify in France having had little or no training in these subjects . |
| 20 | Teachers readily admit at the present time that in most cases they have had little or no training in assessment procedures , and therefore feel they lack both the skills and the confidence to take on a more responsible role in certification . |
| 21 | Engaged in rapidly expanding the size of the business , which he had taken over from his father , Ross had had little or no time for his young wife or her problems . |
| 22 | combined their data for left and mixed handers , since their previous analyses had shown little or no difference between the two groups of patients . |
| 23 | In the past strategy was dictated by head office while divisions and international businesses were left to implement actions in which they had played little or no part in developing . |
| 24 | Many proposed projects provided little or no guarantee of generating convertible currencies , and this made banks cautious in their approach to such projects . |
| 25 | The report called Help with Hostel Charges , Proposals for Change cited the PSI study and stated : ‘ Many hostels provided little or no care to their residents . |
| 26 | His requests for money in Aquitaine met with resistance , for in a real sense the expedition had brought little or no advantage to the duchy . |
| 27 | Most comparisons between human and animal insulins have been based on responses to acute hypoglycaemia , often in non-diabetic subjects , and have found little or no difference between responses with the different species of insulins . |
| 28 | I will examine the strategies used in HARPY , HWIM and two more recent systems , SPHINX and RM1 , and discuss how each system has adapted one or the other of the basic admissible algorithms in order to reduce the potential combinatorial explosion of word string hypotheses . |
| 29 | The Queen had taken little or no interest in the appointment when the informal suggestion of Admiral Bryson came from Downing Street in 1989 . |
| 30 | He could n't understand why his father had been elected Burgermeister or the head of the theatre committee . |