Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adj] [conj] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 2 | Anderson initially gives his academic status — " I am the J. S. Mill Professor of Ethics at the University of Cambridge " — invoking both his personal position and the prestige of his academic establishment , but the pomposity of such a reversal of the modesty maxim is absurd when his interlocutors speak little or no English . |
| 3 | Such transmitted signals have little or no effect on lights , motors and electrical equipment but they arc easily detected by an electronic circuit . |
| 4 | Isoenzymes present in individuals homozygous for the ALDH2*2 allele have little or no catalytic activity , while those present in heterozygotes have measurable , although reduced , activity compared with the isoenzymes present in ALDH2*1 homozygotes . |
| 5 | You will have noted from the Brintons extract on page 106 that some English texts make little or no use of conjunctions . |
| 6 | However , many sadists have little or no evident masochistic urge , and vice versa . |
| 7 | Some of the machair lochs have little or no sediment because of intensive wind fetch and wave erosion . |
| 8 | A report produced jointly by the British Medical Association and the Health Visitors Association in 1989 warned that bed and breakfast accommodation constituted a serious risk to health , and many homeless families receive little or no health care . |
| 9 | Eve Bendall ( 1976 ) in ‘ Teaching for reality ’ states that ‘ … the major part of written answers to nursing questions bear little or no relationship to the nursing performance of the writer in 80% of trainees ’ , and she goes on to say ‘ … we are producing trained nursing staff who are ( through no fault of their own ) woefully lacking in many of the skills they need . ’ |
| 10 | The majority of the building regulations have little or no impact on the financial potential of a site , with one or two notable exceptions . |
| 11 | There are even strange cases where primary syllabus panels have little or no direct link with examiners and where conflict exists between what the syllabus recommends and what the examinations examine . |
| 12 | Although very often his actions have little or no practical effect , they certainly succeed in raising public support . |
| 13 | The child 's developing cognitive capacities mean that events which at one age produce little or no anxiety may , at another , be extremely distressing . |
| 14 | ( Some people produce few or no alpha rhythms , even when completely relaxed . ) |
| 15 | The point is not that everyone needs property to be free ; some people have little or no property but are not necessarily any the less free as a result . |
| 16 | Most GPs have little or no opportunity for heroic intervention for , generally speaking , life-threatening illness is referred immediately to hospital . |
| 17 | Even though most wound patients need little or no rehabilitation , some may need the help of the physiotherapists , occupational therapists and a formal rehabilitation programme . |
| 18 | Conversely if the samples stored at the higher temperatures show little or no change , it may be possible to reduce the frequency of , or even omit , certain of the scheduled examinations at lower temperatures . |
| 19 | Surgery and manipulation have little or no place in the treatment of most RSIs . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The science that children encounter in school sometimes introduces domains of which children have little or no everyday experience . |
| 22 | There has been an assumption that young visually impaired children have little or no ability to use tactile maps to find their way around , and it has been argued that there is little to be gained from introducing visually impaired children to maps at an early age . |
| 23 | These days BEM systems cost little or no more than conventional controllers so the Exeter Arms ' payback period of two-and-a-half years would be much shorter today . |
| 24 | Spender gives numerous examples of this bias ; one is that history textbooks about the nineteenth century contain few or no references to the women 's movement , despite the fact that women were fighting to be accepted into the universities and to receive the franchise . |
| 25 | Many , probably most , submitted schemes have little or no conservation implications but the attitude of the Committee to agricultural development schemes may be a factor explaining why extremely few schemes have been objected to by the NPA . |
| 26 | The type of orientation described above is often given when students have little or no motivation actually to use the library . |
| 27 | For far too long now the motor retail business has been viewed as a male dominated world where women have little or no place . |
| 28 | Ironically , the recreational users and providers invariably argue that their pursuits have little or no environmental impact , and yet they are reluctant to share or publicise ‘ their sites ’ and resources — why ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This seems to support the view that link verbs play little or no role in pushing the communication forward and therefore have no rhematic status . |