Example sentences of "have [adj] [conj] no [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas they all currently specialise either in advanced academic credit-bearing courses of one or two years , or in short courses for groups who often have little or no contact with each other , Northern College 's founders hoped to combine long courses with ten-week courses so that students would benefit from having the continuity of learning associated with the long courses alongside the fresher experiences and perceptions of students on short courses . |
| 2 | Even at 70 , the energetic Mr Chance can not do enough for those he feels have been restricted in their activities and their education and have little or no chance of mixing with the community . |
| 3 | A range of critics ( including Coate , 1983 ; Hamel and Prahalad , 1985 ; Porter , 1985 ; Naylor , 1982 , 1986 ; Prahalad and Doz , 1987 ) have emphasized that the validity of the portfolio-matrix approach depends fundamentally on the existence of SBUs which have little or no interdependence in a corporate group 's portfolio . |
| 4 | The people most affected by them — office workers and passers-by — have little or no influence on their design , and are dependent on the benevolence of the developer and on planning laws . |
| 5 | Is it not possible for the Council to devise rules to eliminate such resolutions which have little or no relevance to the purposes and work of the national trust ? |
| 6 | Most GPs have little or no opportunity for heroic intervention for , generally speaking , life-threatening illness is referred immediately to hospital . |
| 7 | It is recommended that those who have little or no experience of investigation techniques should complete 81218 Community Welfare 1 . |
| 8 | It is recommended that those who have little or no experience of investigation techniques and/or group work skills should complete 81212 Local Investigations 1 prior to commencing 81220 Roles and Behaviour . |
| 9 | Mainly middle-class , they often have little or no concept of the lives of working-class women , who are still the real victims of male oppression . |
| 10 | The ladinos teach mostly in Spanish and have little or no grasp of the languages or culture of their pupils . |
| 11 | For instance , some events will persist briefly , have immediate consequences , minor transgenerational effects and have little or no potential for non-human mortality ( an air crash is an example ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 14 | Such transmitted signals have little or no effect on lights , motors and electrical equipment but they arc easily detected by an electronic circuit . |
| 15 | Native gels , circular dichroism spectra and differential scanning calorimetry ( C. M. Johnson , personal communication ) of purified mutant proteins show that the mutations have little or no effect on the stability and folding of the dimers , suggesting that changes in binding affinity result only from elimination of the intended intermolecular contacts . |
| 16 | Surgery and manipulation have little or no place in the treatment of most RSIs . |
| 17 | The majority of the building regulations have little or no impact on the financial potential of a site , with one or two notable exceptions . |
| 18 | This attitude is understandable , and slimming experts who drearily continue to tell us to ‘ be satisfied just to lose weight slowly : half a pound a week is enough ’ have little or no understanding of human psychology . |
| 19 | Women are especially vulnerable to HIV in societies where they have little or no control over their sex lives . |
| 20 | Some problem-solving will take the form of a deliberative weighing of consequences , although quite often we choose the least likely-looking solution or toss a coin , but equally frequently we have little or no time for debate . |
| 21 | We urge you to protect the livelihood and acknowledge the importance of community-based grassroots media representing the opinions of major sectors of the population which have little or no access to the mass media . |
| 22 | The Critical Lawyers Group has suggested the establishment of a Public Law Project which would provide assistance in matters relating to public law to people who have little or no access to such assistance , due to their social disadvantage or lack of income . |
| 23 | Most feel , perhaps rightly , that they have little or no need for them , that they are able to and indeed profit from individualism . |
| 24 | Deep-sea fish and whales have little or no light by day or by night , because the sun 's rays can not penetrate far below the surface . |