Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [conj] no [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although you ca n't write ‘ sealed with a kiss ' across it , you can make still make sure that no electronic postmaster is perusing your love letters . |
| 2 | When the dust-laden wind meets an obstacle , the dust particles rarely strike the obstacle as they are diverted round it in the general air flow and so exert little or no erosive effect . |
| 3 | Our own collections as yet contain little or no computer-generated material , but without any doubt they will soon do so . |
| 4 | But it is obvious that the reparative principle can not begin to justify the penal system that we have , since most punishments ( and most notably imprisonment ) contain little or no reparative element , and may even make it difficult or impossible for the offender to make amends . |
| 5 | Recorded Delivery is for ordinary letters or documents which have little or no monetary value . |
| 6 | Ironically , the recreational users and providers invariably argue that their pursuits have little or no environmental impact , and yet they are reluctant to share or publicise ‘ their sites ’ and resources — why ? |
| 7 | Although very often his actions have little or no practical effect , they certainly succeed in raising public support . |
| 8 | Unlike the indigenous tribes , they often have little or no agricultural know-how and simply slash and burn the forest as they go . |
| 9 | However , if some setting that you have little or no first-hand experience of does happen to be what has made your imagination bubble and race , you need not cross it off altogether . |
| 10 | The science that children encounter in school sometimes introduces domains of which children have little or no everyday experience . |
| 11 | Isoenzymes present in individuals homozygous for the ALDH2*2 allele have little or no catalytic activity , while those present in heterozygotes have measurable , although reduced , activity compared with the isoenzymes present in ALDH2*1 homozygotes . |
| 12 | These , for Moore , have little or no intrinsic value , and their investigation belongs to the practical branch of ethics concerned with which among possible actions will have the best consequences , rather than to the more fundamental enquiry into the nature of the intrinsically better and worse which it presupposes . |
| 13 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 14 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 15 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 16 | It has been my experience that Boards , with depressing regularity , have received submissions which on a first reading look structurally ingenious but on close analysis are found to be padded out with individual syllabuses that are academically lightweight and have little or no functional relation to the structure they are supposed to illuminate … something is disastrously wrong with planning procedures when staff only partially understand or accept the rationale of a course and a visiting party finds a farrago of assorted bits and pieces behind a facade occasionally breathtaking in its baroque audacity . |
| 17 | There are even strange cases where primary syllabus panels have little or no direct link with examiners and where conflict exists between what the syllabus recommends and what the examinations examine . |