Example sentences of "[prep] little [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a report to a plenary meeting of Tsektran in June , he said that trains should stop acting like droshkys , carrying people and goods where they wished for little or no pay . |
| 2 | For every Western aid worker , there are at least five Somali aid workers who , like Hawa the nurse , put themselves at greater risk , work longer hours for little or no money , and provide a body of local people who may be able to continue their work in health care or administration after the fighting is over . |
| 3 | But he is prepared to act as consultant for corporate clients like Mars in order to be able , for little or no money , to advise clients like Greenpeace or the China Appeal , Michael Manley and the Jamaican government , the National Council for Civil Liberties and the opposition parties in the 1989 Hungarian elections , on their communications and advertising strategies . |
| 4 | Most of them are poor people who give their services to their neighbours and communities for little or no charge . |
| 5 | Individuality counts for little as the nurse in the antenatal clinic brightly calls us ‘ Mother ’ , and the doctor treats us as if we were half-witted . |
| 6 | Firth , Hubert and Forge ( 1970 ) in their study of middle-class families , found that about 15 per cent of parent-child relationships were ‘ bad ’ ( as perceived by the child and measured by items such as little or no contact , clear dislike from one party to the other ) and about one third of those examples of ‘ bad ’ relationships concerned mothers and daughters . |
| 7 | Nelly Tilling 's plans went ahead steadily , despite little or no encouragement from the man of her choice . |
| 8 | Sir — Both the government and the opposition parties have been given one clear ringing message by the voters in the election : that environmental issues are of little or no concern to them . |
| 9 | It is also helpful to bear in mind that the following factors tend to be of little or no relevance in determining whether a business is transferred as a going concern . |
| 10 | For the time being at least this was almost exactly how the French were regarded by the Americans in Vietnam : of little or no account and if not exactly in the ‘ out ’ tray at best their position was ‘ pending ’ . |
| 11 | He fell silent as if this was of little or no account . |
| 12 | There is a suspicion amongst the European aviation community that the US authorities and , to a slightly lesser extent , the US manufacturers either do not bother to take proper account of the findings and recommendations made by investigating authorities outside the USA or else consider them to be of little or no importance . |
| 13 | Reading through Robert Green 's trade card it seems highly unlikely that a client would want to purchase outright such items as the velvet pall , the room hangings , the large silvered candlesticks and sconces , or the feathers and cloaks , for these objects would be of little or no use to the purchaser once the funeral had taken place . |
| 14 | Yet since these can not have presented much of an obstacle , they were of little or no use against large and determined forces of men , against whom only walled towns and castles constituted reasonably sure places of safety . |
| 15 | ‘ Acquired language abilities can be of little or no use when it comes to examination of detailed tender documentation or foreign standard forms of contract ’ . |
| 16 | It is a fact that acquired language abilities can be of little or no use when it comes to examination of detailed tender documentation or foreign standard forms of contract . |
| 17 | The intention is to highlight how today we in this country may join through our offerings with those of little or no material wealth in the Third World in the urgent task of making human development possible for even the poorest . |
| 18 | A year from now , in all likelihood , the world will look back on a merely disappointing year of little or no growth in Britain and America , of solid progress in Germany and Japan , of catastrophes skirted in the Gulf and the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Indeed , some families will want to talk about the present , believing that what has occurred in the past is of little or no consequence . |
| 20 | For there are large chunks of the remit of little or no interest to the advertisers . |
| 21 | Just as speeches by ministers made in association with the passage of an Act of Parliament are of little or no interest to a judge when he comes to interpret the law , so it is highly unlikely , though the matter has yet fully to be put to the test , that the Court of Justice will take much notice of intergovernmental pronouncements or agreements . |
| 22 | Between these two regions , a step in the ion energy will be observed , corresponding to the period of little or no reconnection between the pulses . |
| 23 | Back in 1646 , one of the few articulate defenders of such deluded people maintained that those who would undertake drainage ‘ have always vilified the Fens , and have misinformed many Parliament men , that all the Fens is a mere quagmire … of little or no value : but those which live in the Fens , and are neighbours to it , know the contrary . ’ |
| 24 | Naturally the judges ' tariff is not writ in stone ; it may and does change over time , so that sentences passed in 1900 are of little or no value in ascertaining the tariff in 1992 . |
| 25 | As has frequently been said , the right to be heard or to make representations is worth little unless the person making the representations knows , at least in general terms , the case he has to meet : see , for example , Lord Denning in Kanda v. Government of Malaya [ 1962 ] A.C. 322 , 337 . |
| 26 | Teams traipsing off the field under little or no threat of rain when the medium pacers are on is the bitterest pill a spectator has to swallow ; closely followed by the frequent inability to restart the game promptly . |
| 27 | If you are able to balance straights yourself or have asked a nutritionist to do it for you all well and good , but for the horse owner with little or no experience in feeding , compound feeds are the answer . |
| 28 | IBM 's PROF system for office workers is supposed to be for those with little or no experience of computers . |
| 29 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 30 | As will be demonstrated , these systems have been designed to be operated by users with little or no experience of computing . |