Example sentences of "with [adj] or [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 IBM 's PROF system for office workers is supposed to be for those with little or no experience of computers .
2 As will be demonstrated , these systems have been designed to be operated by users with little or no experience of computing .
3 This chapter is designed to answer a simple question — what do school librarians and teachers , with little or no experience of microcomputers , need to know in order to overcome the initial uncertainties which people have when faced with new technology ?
4 Many food-intolerant patients , with little or no sign of chemical sensitivity , are also unable to drink , which supports the idea that enzyme defects are important in food intolerance as well ( see p 232 ) .
5 The fingerboard is rosewood , after the fashion of '50s Les Paul Standards , and the pearl inlays have been expertly applied with little or no sign of filler around the edges to mar the effect .
6 Low risk activity ( transfer of body fluids with little or no evidence of HIV transmission ) :
7 The layman who reads this document is left with little or no idea of what he is undertaking .
8 Catholic nationalists could be and were arrested with little suspicion , detained , frequently beaten , and all with little or no possibility of redress .
9 This does not apply to those people who spend long periods of time in institutions which they are powerless to leave and with little or no freedom of choice … children 's homes , boarding schools , prisons , mental hospitals , homes for people with disabilities .
10 This course has proved of great value to students with little or no knowledge of the ancient languages , especially those whose interests are mainly in English or other European literatures , or in art history .
11 Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business .
12 The investments failed , and all the money was now gone , the court was told , With little or no chance of anyone getting it back .
13 Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them .
14 Whether it is one side 's cry of the ‘ radical uncertainty ’ of authentic faith or the other side 's reiteration of the ‘ leap of faith ’ , we are offered an imposing edifice of faith with little or no mention of foundations .
15 They should aim to enable individuals to use their personal emotional and intellectual resources to modify their attitudes and behaviour and to learn new social skills so as to achieve a stable way of life with diminished or no use of alcohol .
16 Furthermore , if we take seriously Black 's claim that his specimen metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ serves at once to render man wolf-like and to humanize wolves , a reversible metaphor could be imagined at the level of a word , a sentence , or a discourse in which each term was engaged in a metaphoric interaction with one or a number of other terms , organizing them , structuring them and in turn being structured by them .
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