Example sentences of "with [adj] or [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The block vote makes terrible television , as millions of votes are marshalled on behalf of union members with little or no loyalty to the party . |
| 2 | Regardless of where their support came from , the fact was that possession of 38 seats in the Volkstag meant they could now rule with little or no reference to the other parties . |
| 3 | Candidates must now set up personal machines manned by workers attracted to them by their individual qualities and stands on the issues with little or no reference to party loyalty . |
| 4 | Some writers have pointed out that the notion of professionalism is occasionally used to improve the image , prestige and rewards of teachers with little or no reference to any commitment to improve educational practice . |
| 5 | Within this area of what could be called ‘ pure phonology ’ , problems are examined with little or no reference to their relevance to the language learner . |
| 6 | In emergency situations , it seemed , constitutional niceties had no place and the chief executive had to be allowed a free hand , an ominous precedent that was to be followed by a series of major military initiatives by presidents with little or no regard to the war power of congress . |
| 7 | Referee Ron Challis watched helpless as the players pushed the ball around with little or no challenge to the man in possession . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Crew members are tearing dolphins out of the net and dumping them on the deck with little or no attention to whether they are alive or dead . |
| 9 | These are , first ( as I have mentioned in chapter 1 ) , a tendency to focus on patterns of change alone with little or no attention to stable patterns of language through time ; second , a tendency to unidimensionality , that is , an inclination to think of the history of a language as the history of a single homogeneous variety and of sound-changes as proceeding in straight lines ; and third , as noted in chapter 2 , a tendency to impose theoretical and ideological orthodoxies on ( sometimes rather sparse ) data that might often be open to alternative kinds of interpretation . |