Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adj] or [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I reckon that 's a bit of a cheek , really , if you prefer to affirm and swear on the bible , I do n't see why they should challenge why you want to do one or the other . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This means they have added little or no mark-up ( see page 145 ) — they are selling the item(s) at a loss . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | • A US Government study reveals that car makers in the US have made little or no gains in fuel economy ratings for 1991 models . |
| 6 | However , almost exclusively , early systems have made little or no attempt to use any such knowledge beyond that of the word level ( e.g. Earnest [ 1962 ] , Eden [ 1964 ] , Sayre [ 1973 ] , Tappert [ 1984 ] ) . |
| 7 | In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Many attempts to evaluate its effectiveness have shown little or no benefit , possibly due to methodological problems . |
| 10 | The authors argue that ‘ attempts to evaluate effectiveness have shown little or no benefit , ’ although among the references they quote are three studies that did not entail counselling in the accepted sense of the term at all , two of which produced distinctly positive results . |
| 11 | We residents and poll tax payers of Everton have to endure little or no street lighting at all . |
| 12 | 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 . |