Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 34 | Little or no confidence in the integrity of the offlined files . |
| 35 | The Queen had taken little or no interest in the appointment when the informal suggestion of Admiral Bryson came from Downing Street in 1989 . |
| 36 | The areas covered include some which have attracted little or no interest in the past , but are considered worthy of investigation because of their geological setting . |
| 37 | In Catalonia there was little criticism of a territorial aristocracy that took little or no interest in its lands : the large farmers were confident and secure in an aristocratic rural society where an early and major defeat of the economic power of the nobility had left the masovers a rural bourgeoisie . |
| 38 | Considering that the majority of the general public has little or no interest in the game , cricket is extremely well served by the BBC both in terms of the quantity and quality of presentation . |
| 39 | For their part , trade unions showed little or no interest in the new community-based movements that emerged from the late 1960s , and saw little to interest them in the educational work that developed around community struggles . |
| 40 | We criticise the European Commission for its interventions about our roads and about the development of the channel tunnel , but the people of Wales and of many of our regions should also say , ’ We should be making our own decisions , not people down there in London with little or no interest in us . ’ |
| 41 | Regarding the question of pole pieces , there should be little or no difference in performance between pickups ( of identical specification ) fitted with Allen head screws , compared to those fitted with slot head screws . |
| 42 | Similarly , one can not talk about contemporary Chinese , Russian or Balkan weaving groups , because there is usually little or no difference in the character and appearance of rugs made in the various centres throughout each country . |
| 43 | There was little or no difference in technical quality between the systems , and as far as we are concerned the matter can be decided on price . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | But MITI ‘ played little or no role in the investment policies or technological development activities of the producers ’ ( Kaplan , 1975 , p. 116 ) . |
| 46 | The curriculum at the medical schools does not make the study of dermato-venereology compulsory , and it is not unusual for a doctor to qualify in France having had little or no training in these subjects . |
| 47 | Teachers readily admit at the present time that in most cases they have had little or no training in assessment procedures , and therefore feel they lack both the skills and the confidence to take on a more responsible role in certification . |
| 48 | The written straddle shown in Fig. 7.11(b) may be used when little or no movement in the underlying security price is expected . |
| 49 | Surgery and manipulation have little or no place in the treatment of most RSIs . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Financing it by method 4 will lead to little or no growth in the money supply . |
| 52 | Moreover that growth has been greatest where the decline in manufacturing employment has been least — that is , in the regions of ‘ the south ’ . |
| 53 | It should be noted that it follows from this that an action in respect of a public law wrong can be a private action for present purposes if it is against a non-governmental body . |
| 54 | Arechaga concludes from this that the treaty in its final form could be amended by the parties without regard to third parties ’ navigation rights . |
| 55 | Finally , if the manager were to get into financial difficulties , and his or her creditors required payment , it should be clear that no money in this account belongs to the manager , and it can not be used to settle the manager 's personal debts . |
| 56 | Putting the question this way makes clear that a justification in terms of wealth relies on a trade-off : corporate decision-making power should be accepted as the price of efficient wealth creation . |
| 57 | Despite Anthony Fauci 's assertion that ‘ the virus is the major factor in HIV disease , ’ it was clear that a shift in emphasis is taking place from direct antiretroviral strategies to immune-directed therapies . |
| 58 | Page 29 Pound pressure : The Bank of England spent $1bn as the pound came under attack when it became clear that an increase in West German rates today is a virtual certainty . |
| 59 | THE BANK of England yesterday spent a reported $1bn after the pound came under sustained attack once it became clear that an increase in West German interest rates today is almost certain . |
| 60 | Since autonomous expenditure helps determine the position ( intercept ) of the curve ( equation 10–35 ) , it is clear that an increase in government spending will shift the curve to the right . |