Example sentences of "have [adj] or [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A much less demanding condition is one in which the saboteur is attempting to damage a plant about which he has little or no technical knowledge . |
| 2 | What joins the various devices under a common heading is the fact that in all cases the discourses invoked are spoken through by a voice which has little or no inherent identity of its own but is defined as a principle of interrogative conjunction . |
| 3 | In most people the right side of the brain has little or no verbal capacity but is slightly more important than the left for spatial ability . |
| 4 | This brief ritual has little or no religious significance . |
| 5 | Other than 174 billion cu.metres of natural gas under the Po Valley Italy has little or no indigenous fuel resources . |
| 6 | He has little or no social life and has severe problems in evolving any kind of friendship . ’ |
| 7 | The difficulty that arises from this concerns the attempt to confirm and clarify a hypothesis about which the counsellee has little or no conscious knowledge . |
| 8 | In Vietnam and China , where Guinness has had little or no previous presence , test markets and research have indicated good potential and plans to realise this are in hand . |
| 9 | Or it may have little or no practical effect . |
| 10 | However , about 30 per cent of the world 's population were known to have little or no regular access to essential drugs . |
| 11 | The central importance attached to the inefficiency of labour markets is either so generally abstract as to have little or no practical application or so partial as to ignore the necessary interdependence between labour supply and a whole range of institutions . |
| 12 | Arthur Kornhauser reports for his sample of Detroit car workers that the physical conditions of work appear ‘ to have little or no explanatory value in accounting for poorer mental health at lower versus upper job levels ’ . |
| 13 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 14 | In men under 50 , however , periodontal disease was a stronger risk factor ; men with periodontitis had a nearly twofold higher risk of coronary heart disease than men who had little or no periodontal disease . |
| 15 | In many cases panel members had little or no previous experience of validation but they showed a high level of commitment and were in general well prepared . |
| 16 | We found that television had a large effect on those political perceptions which had little or no attitudinal content . |
| 17 | South Wales with its early potato enterprises headed the specialised markets and at the other end of the scale Speyside , Powys and Cumbria had little or no specialised farming enterprises . |
| 18 | Recorded Delivery is for ordinary letters or documents which have little or no monetary value . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Although very often his actions have little or no practical effect , they certainly succeed in raising public support . |
| 21 | Unlike the indigenous tribes , they often have little or no agricultural know-how and simply slash and burn the forest as they go . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The science that children encounter in school sometimes introduces domains of which children have little or no everyday experience . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 28 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |