Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [conj] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | THE BRITISH wives of American servicemen stationed in the United Kingdom must pay the poll tax even though they receive little or no benefit from public services , the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday . |
| 2 | However , they paid little or no attention to her , and Lucy guessed that their minds were too occupied with the exciting venture which would take them down the foaming white waters of the river . |
| 3 | Erm , of course it has to be remembered that all these lectures , or at least most of them , were erm voluntary compulsion and the men used to turn up because they were told to and er whether or not they showed little or no interest very often and it was all erm well a bit of a waste of time . |
| 4 | They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area — quite deliberately . |
| 5 | They do little or no teaching , so they are always available . |
| 6 | Arsenal really do keep things tight ; they gave little or no room in which to manoeuvre . |
| 7 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 8 | Much has been written about the pioneering spirit of the men and women who left their homelands in times of primitive travel facilities and poor communications , to settle on virgin land of which they had little or no knowledge . |
| 9 | Right-wing papers improved their readers ' images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged their readers ' images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though they had little or no influence upon their readers ' images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 10 | They had little or no permanence and cohesion and therefore no organisation and no prospect of standing up for their rights . |
| 11 | They require little or no pruning or other attention , being remarkably resistant to disease , and are among the hardiest of all roses , thriving in conditions that would frighten the life out of most others . |
| 12 | Cellars are notorious for damp , and for wet and dry rot , because often they have little or no ventilation . |
| 13 | They have little or no potential to effect the ozone layer ; either they contain no chlorine or they break down lower in the atmosphere . |
| 14 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 15 | Loss of the loved one can raise the same intensity of emotion : a sense of betrayal , hatred of the betrayer , extreme jealousy of a rival-feelings over which a person may believe they have little or no control . |
| 16 | Women are especially vulnerable to HIV in societies where they have little or no control over their sex lives . |
| 17 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 18 | Most feel , perhaps rightly , that they have little or no need for them , that they are able to and indeed profit from individualism . |
| 19 | Most of them proved disappointing because no activity could be demonstrated , but one Indian medicine proved to be important . |