Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adj] [conj] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area — quite deliberately . |
| 3 | They do little or no teaching , so they are always available . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Cellars are notorious for damp , and for wet and dry rot , because often they have little or no ventilation . |
| 6 | They have little or no potential to effect the ozone layer ; either they contain no chlorine or they break down lower in the atmosphere . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Women are especially vulnerable to HIV in societies where they have little or no control over their sex lives . |
| 10 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 11 | Most feel , perhaps rightly , that they have little or no need for them , that they are able to and indeed profit from individualism . |