Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children pay little or nothing for attendance fees , and only pay according to their parent 's means . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd have thought it would be the West End or nothing for Dane Jacobsen — superstar . ’ |
| 3 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
| 4 | Peru 's Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre , after meeting Trotsky , Chicherin , Lunacharskii and Frunze , testified that they knew ‘ little or nothing about conditions in our America ’ ( Haya de la Torre : 1961 pp. 158–9 ) . |
| 5 | He thought little or nothing about law , or jurisdiction , or faculty . |
| 6 | It occurred to Edward that he knew little or nothing about rook behaviour . |
| 7 | Of those ( 6 of the 30 ) who said they read a lot of SF or nothing but SF , all but one replied that the passage was SF . |
| 8 | ALL OR NOTHING FROM FAMILIES |
| 9 | Quite obviously , the examples constitute extreme types , but , as Newtown full back Alfonso Clark , part of a family of nine , put it , after describing two similar cases : ‘ There 's nothing in between ; it 's all or nothing from West Indian families ’ ( he was from Nevis ) . |
| 10 | For that reason , high-tech firms often pay little or nothing in dividends , in America and Britain as well as Japan . |
| 11 | Agrippa , Angus , his hired assassins , or someone under orders from the arch murderer at Royston . ’ |
| 12 | If you are a teacher , a youth worker or someone with responsibility for young people , you can make a real contribution toward keeping them away from crime . |
| 13 | Only the member of the liberal professions , or the artist and intellectual who was not essentially an employer or someone with subordinates , was not primarily a ‘ master ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Oliver Craddock said last year , ‘ There will be a removal of something or someone around May 25th . ’ |
| 15 | Deane and Rodders up front again I du n no I 'd like to see him try for a goal poacher or someone like Ferds . |
| 16 | The ‘ female ’ could be a female impersonator , or someone in disguise , or an actor on the way to a theatre ; the ‘ angry ’ or ‘ excited ’ person could be deaf , or someone calling out to a friend some distance away . |
| 17 | If you 're visiting the hospital or someone in hospital |
| 18 | You do n't get a second chance where someone like Julius is concerned . |
| 19 | Jennifer came up through the LA rock scene where plenty of women were playing ; Donita and the others came from Chicago , where it was a lot sparser . |
| 20 | ‘ . It remains a valetudinarian place , with baths a mile out of town to the east where plenty of people still go for treatment . |
| 21 | He will examine more confidently his own intuition and hope , that there is Something or Somebody at work behind the scenes in all religions . |
| 22 | Sometimes , indeed , we identify with another instead of seeing ourselves as independent autonomous subjects , we identify with Lady Diana , our headmistress or somebody at work . |
| 23 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |
| 24 | MacDonald 's bought it or somebody after MacDonald 's . |
| 25 | erm , there 's holes or summat at side for er central heating |
| 26 | or summat in bottles . |
| 27 | For the reading parent there is now plenty of help . |
| 28 | There is now plenty of choice for the investor who knows what he or she wants to invest in , but there is still something of a vacuum for investors with less than £50,000 which they want to put into shares directly . |
| 29 | THE recession of 1980–81 was the worst anybody in the engineering business had seen ; now plenty of people think the current recession is causing still more grief . |
| 30 | er Nothing or nobody in England make anything anywhere near to what she needs for her disability . |