Example sentences of "there [is] [det] or [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this becomes clear if you use an annular stimulus ; you then get a response at the opposite phase to that for a central stimulus , and there is antagonism between these two regions , so when you illuminate both together there is little or no response ; they cancel each other out . |
| 2 | In others there is little or no disagreement . |
| 3 | There is little or no deterrent for these fiendish acts . |
| 4 | Except in the more extreme cases mentioned there is little or no significance in them . |
| 5 | He drew up a work schedule dedicated ‘ to providing holes which would be reachable with two good shots , when the ground is soft and there is little or no run , rather than cater as regards length for the summer conditions ’ . |
| 6 | There is little or no discussion of principle . |
| 7 | There is little or no sense of diachrony or process in the work of Barthes or Lévi-Strauss . |
| 8 | There is no known proof of true hereditary surnames in the period before the Conquest , and although a number of Domesday tenants of English origins have names additional to their first — such as Alnod of Kent , a byname given to a man with land in Oxfordshire — there is little or no evidence to show that these were other than personal to the individuals . |
| 9 | The fact that there is little or no evidence that a gift is operating does not necessarily mean , however , that it is not present . |
| 10 | Although there is little or no evidence to support the contention that those who deviate from shared sexual morality are likely to be ‘ deviant ’ in other ways as well , it was argued in Chapter two that it is precisely this quality that Mrs Whitehouse felt she had detected in young ‘ revolutionaries ’ such as Richard Neville . |
| 11 | However , there is little or no evidence for this . |
| 12 | Sometimes , where occupation is particularly dense , there is little or no evidence for any associated property to the rear , suggesting that their occupants either worked land elsewhere or derived their livelihood from other specializations . |
| 13 | There is little or no evidence to support this argument . |
| 14 | There is little or no tradition of democratic government in these new states and the influence of Western liberal democratic traditions is not always likely to be great . |
| 15 | Thus , for example as Revill has pointed out , in programmed instruction students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with other students , or with the teacher . |
| 16 | But students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with the rest of the group or with the lecturer . |
| 17 | If there is little or no bias it does n't matter whereabouts on the line you start . |
| 18 | Because of this there is little or no possibility that somebody somewhere else will recognize the merits of the actions you are taking , or the opportunity that you have uncovered , and of their own free will line up and help you . |
| 19 | Finally , as some of them are geographically isolated , there is little or no possibility of merging with other institutions . |
| 20 | Such problems are usually confined to ponds in which there is little or no water movement , and generally occur at night . |
| 21 | But without the initial pump-priming operation by the Government , there is little or no chance of attracting this secondary wave of employment . |
| 22 | Dormer windows , fitted into alcoves in the roof , are difficult to treat because there is little or no space into which the curtains can be drawn back . |
| 23 | Sometimes there is little or no overlap between the scores of individuals in Group A and the individuals in Group B ( see L. Milroy 1980 : 161 for an example ) , but more often there is considerable overlap . |
| 24 | Since the STJ always confined itself to veiled hints of this kind rather than anything more explicit , and since there is little or no literature available on the women 's suffrage movement in Edinburgh , it is impossible to say whether there was indeed any personal connection between the Master Printers and the " West End suffragettes . " |
| 25 | Within this section attention will be given to preparation not only for the selling task , in which there is little or no scope for the salesperson to bargain with the buyer , but also for where selling may involve a degree of negotiation between buyer and seller . |
| 26 | Motability moan IF A disabled driver requires a car under the Motability scheme with a manual transmission then there is little or no deposit required . |
| 27 | Although the Act ( sec. 25 , 1944 Education Act ) would seem to give parents and pupils the right to practise a religion other than that ( Christianity ) , in general there is little or no provision made in school for any kind of peripatetic Muslim teacher to give lessons in Islam . |
| 28 | Second , there is little or no cooperation with other US museums . |
| 29 | There is little or no realization amongst reformers , however , that any effective change in budgetary relationships must necessarily alter the outcomes of the budgetary process … proposed reforms inevitably contain important implications for the system ; that is , for the ‘ who gets what ’ of government decisions . |
| 30 | An interesting feature of all these ducks ( for which I have no explanation to offer ) is that unlike most species of European ducks there is little or no difference between the sexes . |