Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it the one of the right or the left or one that 's got his finger in . |
| 2 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 3 | His aunt had little or no English and Edward the merest smattering of a few isolated Welsh phrases . |
| 4 | It has become a floundering nation with little or no direction and , has , for too long , basked in former glory . |
| 5 | Appearance , texture and smell : Unadjusted a detergent would be a thin , translucent , colourless liquid with little or no smell or a white powder generally unattractive . |
| 6 | They require little or no pruning or other attention , being remarkably resistant to disease , and are among the hardiest of all roses , thriving in conditions that would frighten the life out of most others . |
| 7 | Although walls can be initially quite expensive , they require very little maintenance , little or no staffing and draw in many user visits ( 10,000 per year in Glasgow , 6,000 per year in Fort William ) thus paying for themselves after only a few years . |
| 8 | The Bhutto government has little or no access and influence . |
| 9 | They had little or no permanence and cohesion and therefore no organisation and no prospect of standing up for their rights . |
| 10 | The petitions had little or no effect but at least they afforded some sense of involvement in what was going on . |
| 11 | Uplifts of 1–2 km can apparently be produced if the crust experiences very little or no extension and the lithosphere is stretched by a large amount ( Box 4.2 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The place for a quiet picnic on a Bank Holiday is now in the centre of the City of London — few people , little or no traffic and an ample supply of peace and quiet . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | We need to be aware that many of the ideas we introduce on an assumption that they are reflecting the children 's backgrounds may have little or no meaning or relevance for the children . |
| 16 | Add little or no salt or sugar to food . |
| 17 | If they own their homes , they are likely to have little or no mortgage and some will have inherited property on the death of their parents . |
| 18 | It is therefore necessary to depart quite sharply from conventional postwar wisdom about the pre-war years — a wisdom that rests on the twin myths of firm punishment in the courts , going hand-in-hand with little or no crime and an untroubled youth — and to state a rather different version of events . |
| 19 | Secondly , priority needs to be given to establishing structures that will enable all general practitioners to be involved in influencing the views of the purchasing authorities , including those who have hitherto expressed little or no interest and those who already have a clear interest in participating . |
| 20 | Inevitably the first two months of 1951–52 promised little or no improvement and the directors decided that Dawes and his colleague would have to go . |
| 21 | To survive , remain active and breed in areas where there is little or no rain and no open water at all , a creature must have both a watertight skin and a watertight egg . |
| 22 | That is , inner cities are perceived as ‘ deviant communities ’ , areas which need to be turned around and brought back into the mainstream , a mainstream that requires little or no restructuring or reform . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This is not the place to summarize the rest of the curriculum debate and many important documents , whether from HMI ( Curriculum 11–16 in 1977 , A View of the Curriculum in 1980 ) or the DES ( A Framework for the School Curriculum in 1980 or The Organization and Content of the 5–16 Curriculum in 1984 ) : Chapter 1.1 provides some detail . |
| 25 | However , this approach was not as successful as that implemented in probeorder , in that where the map and hybridisation data are in in serious conflict the contigs generated will be a poor compromise between the two . |
| 26 | But these firms , as I said , they wanted this or that or the other and with er because of this fellow Mr he did nothing to get it out of his so it just happened , you know what I mean . |
| 27 | well it 's either that or the launderette and I mean that 's , that 's quite costly is n't it ? |
| 28 | One is intensive arable as in the Fens , New Holland in Lincolnshire , and on much of the chalk ; there are few or no hedges or trees , but open country with no sense of enclosure or division . |
| 29 | Those from an unskilled manual working class background left with few or no qualifications and emerged into manual jobs with a ‘ careerless ’ orientation . |
| 30 | A study of 79 London mothers aged 16–19 in late pregnancy confirmed that they are still usually of working class status with few or no qualifications and little chance of career-type employment . |