Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Right-wing papers improved their readers ' images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged their readers ' images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though they had little or no influence upon their readers ' images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 32 | To the thin-skinned Ceauşescus , the broadcasts of Radio Free Europe and the BBC were intolerable , but they recognized that the émigré broadcasters had little or no influence in the West . |
| 33 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that in July 1960 the Soviet leaders could have had little or no intimation of exactly how imbalanced their economic relationship with Cuba was destined to become . |
| 34 | They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area — quite deliberately . |
| 35 | Developing countries , for example , consume many of the same goods as industrialised countries , but may have little or no expenditure on heating , public utilities , medicine , etc . |
| 36 | Conversely , if the product is in decline little or no expenditure on advertising will be permitted . |
| 37 | This course has proved of great value to students with little or no knowledge of the ancient languages , especially those whose interests are mainly in English or other European literatures , or in art history . |
| 38 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 39 | Thus , for example as Revill has pointed out , in programmed instruction students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with other students , or with the teacher . |
| 40 | But students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with the rest of the group or with the lecturer . |
| 41 | The ladinos teach mostly in Spanish and have little or no grasp of the languages or culture of their pupils . |
| 42 | Mainly middle-class , they often have little or no concept of the lives of working-class women , who are still the real victims of male oppression . |
| 43 | Bruce , defending the expansion of university extra-mural work since the war , saw the future role of the WEA primarily as a student-body rather than as one with a teaching responsibility , ‘ an organisation of all adult students ’ with little or no emphasis on the working-class element : ‘ in the general interest , it would seem best … for the WEA to concentrate its attention upon the stimulation and organisation of demand … all but the most elementary pioneer work could become the responsibility of Extra-Mural Departments or local authorities ’ with the WEA left as ‘ the mouthpiece of lively , conscious student demand ’ . |
| 44 | The broad date span , 1700–1880 will be used to emphasise the continuity of development , with little or no emphasis on labels such as ‘ Neo-classicism ’ or ‘ Realism ’ . |
| 45 | Paul Harford , leader of Cleveland County Council : ‘ This is a standstill Budget offering little or no hope to those who are unemployed or dependent on benefit , or hoping for proper training to help them escape the poverty trap . ’ |
| 46 | By not considering this as a possibility , the pilot gives himself little or no hope of a safe landing , especially if the alternative is a very low 360° turn and he is already flying rather slowly . |
| 47 | A cheque for £400 had been received from the Radcliffe Trustees , Mr Park had collected £389 of the £521 from ratepayers , but on 18 December 1896 , it was reported that a further debit of £21 6s 6d had been received from the Locomotive Department , increasing the total to £2,935 10s 7d , and none of the ratepayers who owed the uncollected £132 were property owners , so there was little or no hope of collecting it ; that was written off . |
| 48 | There may be little or no hope of finding those particular items , but there are many others to be collected , some as yet unrecorded . |
| 49 | Many proposed projects provided little or no guarantee of generating convertible currencies , and this made banks cautious in their approach to such projects . |
| 50 | Earlier this season Jim McCorry 's men accounted for Fermanagh in the league by the minimum margin , but that has little or no bearing on today 's match . |
| 51 | The role of generalization decrement in these experiments can be investigated by comparing the effects on excitatory responding of an added stimulus that has had little or no pre-exposure with those produced by a stimulus that has undergone latent inhibition training . |
| 52 | The findings have tended to support the view that the police are held in relatively high esteem , although those polled have invariably had little or no contact with the police in any capacity . |
| 53 | He talks enthusiastically about ‘ getting back to some real police work ’ in ‘ the real world ’ , even though his responsibilities as Divisional Commander will be mainly administrative and give him little or no contact with the ‘ dangerous classes ’ . |
| 54 | By 1957 , it had become clear that it was easier to direct affairs on the far side of the Arab sea/air barrier from London rather than from Cyprus , which had little or no contact with Aden and Kenya . |
| 55 | There are young autistic adults living independent lives and usefully employed , and others who have made little or no contact with the world they have entered . |
| 56 | In the early stages many of the children had been in residential care for periods of years , had little or no contact with members of the natural family and had lost all serious hope of returning there . |
| 57 | If Mosley came to fascism as a result of the failure of the process of British parliamentary politics to create the new society , the same could not be said of others , like Chesterton and Williamson , who had little or no contact with high politics . |
| 58 | The Chinese , for their part , needed reliable intelligence on conditions in Vietnam — some genuine Vietnamese support , too , if they could get it — but not simply that which was promised by émigrés who had lived in China for years and who had little or no contact with or contemporary knowledge of Vietnam . |
| 59 | Whereas they all currently specialise either in advanced academic credit-bearing courses of one or two years , or in short courses for groups who often have little or no contact with each other , Northern College 's founders hoped to combine long courses with ten-week courses so that students would benefit from having the continuity of learning associated with the long courses alongside the fresher experiences and perceptions of students on short courses . |
| 60 | ‘ I mean , ’ Corbett said forcefully , ‘ that for two decades Alexander III ruled this country with little or no assistance from the French . |