Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mother or , more often , the father who is separated for long periods or repeated shorter periods from the home ( through professional requirements , for example , or by prison sentence ) stands in danger of becoming an " inconsiderable " member of the family — one who is of the family group but who , in the child 's eyes , plays little or no part in its procedures , decisions and activities . |
| 2 | Doeringer distinguishes between three major divisions : a pragmatic approach in which theory plays little or no role although , as Eldridge ( 1975 , p. 7 ) has reminded us ‘ the pragmatists in emphasising the need for realistic solutions often carry a good deal of conceptual and theoretical baggage around with them ’ ; secondly , a Marxist approach , stressing class relations and conflict irreconcilability ; and , following Dunlop 's ( 1958 ) seminal work , the highly influential ‘ systems ’ model focusing on the rules of industrial relations and their determinants . |
| 3 | There was something like a regular cursus honorum : the capable chaplain was provided with endowment in the form of canonries and dignities in this and that cathedral , for which he was expected to perform little or no duty , and eventually with a bishopric . |
| 4 | This caveat was echoed in Sybron Corp v Rochem Ltd [ 1983 ] 3 WLR 713 where it was said that if an employee were required to report each and every breach of duty by fellow employees this would ruin good industrial relations . |
| 5 | The drug produced little or no Parkinsonism ( tremor ) , acute dystonia ( abnormal face and body movements ) or akathisia ( restlessness ) . |
| 6 | I would eat tinned vegetables , being sure to drink the water in which they had been canned , and I would conserve body fluid by eating little or no protein . |
| 7 | She says she got little or no response when she reported her missing . |
| 8 | She says she got little or no response when she reported her missing . |
| 9 | The Institute of Patentees and Inventors and several parliamentarians were able to cite instances where employees had received little or no material reward beyond their ordinary salary following the successful commercial exploitation of their invention by the employer or the employer 's licensees . |
| 10 | Although Preston still referred to it privately as the God slot , as he had indicated to Kate it made little or no reference to the Almighty . |
| 11 | Pointing , at best , some sixty degrees off the wind , and drifting downwind at an alarming rate , we made little or no progress during the next three days . |
| 12 | This made little or no sense to them . |
| 13 | When her food arrived , she appeared to eat without appetite , made little or no response to any attempts at conversation and left the table without taking dessert or coffee . |
| 14 | The middle school which both her older boys attended was a long walk from her home and made little or no attempt to involve parents . |
| 15 | In a Financial Times poll of senior businessmen , 70% said the budget made little or no difference to their companies or their view of government policy . |
| 16 | In the 1960s and 1970s a substantial body of evidence emerged which claimed that schools made little or no difference to pupils ' outcomes . |
| 17 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 18 | This question is made somewhat difficult to answer because one of the effects of the emphasis on the facts and merits of the particular case in Fleet Street Casuals is that the issue of standing now often receives little or no attention from the courts and is sometimes the subject of concessions by the respondent . |
| 19 | In the first place the number of States that work diligently on their accident investigation responsibilities is regrettably rather small , and although their delegates may approach a divisional meeting with the same view of the agenda items their ideas can be , and all too frequently are , frustrated by States which make little or no contribution in this field of activity . |
| 20 | You will have noted from the Brintons extract on page 106 that some English texts make little or no use of conjunctions . |
| 21 | If this is a universal understanding of the grief process , how does the church assist the bereaved in the first stage of their loss , bearing in mind that many people who make little or no claim to Christian faith still look to the church to provide a fitting funeral rite ? |
| 22 | The Warsaw pact offers little or no help to Hungary in disputes with other East Europeans . |
| 23 | Not simply a resurrection in people 's minds — I might well grant that but a resurrection as an objective fact of history , so that it could be said that the causal nexus of history and that of nature were broken ( for there are not resurrections ) . |
| 24 | Such theories take the individual as the starting point ; and the inherent sociality that we are arguing for — and which precludes any form of methodological individualism — is given little or no credence . |
| 25 | Laissez-faire style Subordinates are given little or no direction at all , and are allowed to establish their own objectives and make all their own decisions . |
| 26 | Subjects given extensive pre-training in applying labels to the stimuli learned the motor task more readily than others given little or no pretraining . |
| 27 | Although SunSoft — indeed Sun as a whole — has given little or no ground on the issue of direct support for the Open Software Foundation 's Motif graphical user interface on its own Sparc systems , Watkins says the company is more than happy for third parties to supply it . |
| 28 | so they got that and the carpet it had been seven ninety nine in Allied and it had been reduced three ninety nine for a week |
| 29 | Apart from delays at border crossings during the June crackdown , Hong Kong firms experienced little or no disruption at their Guangdong operations . |
| 30 | 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 . |