Example sentences of "[conj] little [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who did respond were much more likely to say that little or no contribution was fair . |
| 2 | We should distinguish here between expropriation , which suggests that little or no compensation is paid ; nationalization and forced divestment , which leave the question open ; and indigenization , which suggests that foreign personnel and control are changed to indigenous personnel and control . |
| 3 | It is very clear from the findings of the Survey that little or no change has occurred in the patterns of demand for the major categories of material studied on earlier occasions : the overwhelming majority of items requested are still modern publications , and the demand for foreign-language publications ( and , indeed , for publications in particular foreign languages ) has remained constant . |
| 4 | If the philosophy is to decentralise , in the way described in Chapter 21 , that is to say by effectively delegating authority to the sub-units , then it is likely that little or no role will be available for a corporate marketing department . |
| 5 | The lowest temperature gradient estimated from analysis of obducted lower crust is 20°C km -1 ; even for this conservative estimate , temperatures at the bottom of the crust ( 50km ) would have been greater than 1,000°C — sufficient to produce trondhjemitic melts from hydrated basaltic compositions with residues of amphibole , garnet and clinopyroxene and little or no plagioclase . |
| 6 | To be a plant must be to experience a hazy , quiescent state of consciousness , with focus diffused and little or no opportunity to create new karma . |
| 7 | The imbalance between service commitments and training is such that doctors have little opportunity to learn from their experiences , and little or no teaching takes place in protected time , when they would be free from service commitments . |
| 8 | The bookfund is divided into separate allocations for each service point and little or no control is exercised over the way these amounts are spent . |
| 9 | In their search for fingerprints , the detectives had been liberal in their use of grey aluminium powder and little or no attempt had been made to remove it . |
| 10 | What chances there are of the underclass obtaining any work are largely confined to this secondary and flexible labour market , and that part which is characterized by less security of employment , low pay and little or no pension or fringe benefits . |
| 11 | This could be explained away by the inadequacy of the diagnosis but that would not restore belief in a fixed relation between pain and damage since we are faced with very large numbers of patients with overt chronic damage and little or no pain . |
| 12 | The pattern of sequence conservation within the marsupials and between the two classes of mammals is the same as that previously noted in eutherians : average levels of conservation in the region encoding the HMG box and little or no conservation outside the box . |
| 13 | It is essential to work the trapezius muscles , otherwise a stooped , round-shouldered posture will result ; this is a common fault with people who do a lot of chest work but little or no back work . |
| 14 | Towards the close of the century , large tracts of the Highlands had been surveyed but little or no attention had been paid to the islands . |
| 15 | These give details of present site locations and some indication of permitted wastes , though little or no information on closed and abandoned sites . |
| 16 | The written straddle shown in Fig. 7.11(b) may be used when little or no movement in the underlying security price is expected . |