Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duchess of Kent attends a Thanksgiving Service to mark the 150th Anniversary of the foundation of the West of England School for Children with Little or No Sight in Exeter Cathedral . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Initially , the minorities who were skilled and had competence in English , as well as those who were unskilled and had little or no competence in English , were offered unskilled jobs in textile firms , foundries , hospitals and in public transport . |
| 4 | But majority of the population , especially those from rural areas , and women , had little or no competence in English . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Except in the more extreme cases mentioned there is little or no significance in them . |
| 7 | A range of critics ( including Coate , 1983 ; Hamel and Prahalad , 1985 ; Porter , 1985 ; Naylor , 1982 , 1986 ; Prahalad and Doz , 1987 ) have emphasized that the validity of the portfolio-matrix approach depends fundamentally on the existence of SBUs which have little or no interdependence in a corporate group 's portfolio . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the past strategy was dictated by head office while divisions and international businesses were left to implement actions in which they had played little or no part in developing . |
| 10 | By contrast , social science in Britain , with the possible exception of economics , was largely unrecognised and underfinanced having little or no foothold in the elite establishments of higher education . |
| 11 | Some — in areas like librarianship — had little or no provision in complementary and contrasting studies . |
| 12 | At the assimilation end of the spectrum of representations of care programming in community care plans , local authorities appear to refer to it formally , signalling their awareness , but with little or no discussion in the care plan of the relevance of care programmes for social services , examples being Croydon and Lambeth . |
| 13 | It is also helpful to bear in mind that the following factors tend to be of little or no relevance in determining whether a business is transferred as a going concern . |
| 14 | This model sees local authorities as having a subordinate relationship to central government with little or no discretion in the task of implementing national policies . |
| 15 | If you do feel hungry , you can eat anything you like — as long as it has little or no fat in it . |
| 16 | If you are able to balance straights yourself or have asked a nutritionist to do it for you all well and good , but for the horse owner with little or no experience in feeding , compound feeds are the answer . |
| 17 | Course co-ordinator Tony Bland said the course was designed for people with little or no experience in the use of media-based resources . |
| 18 | The consumer has had little or no choice in the matter : without organic food widely available it has not been possible to choose to avoid creating nitrate pollution by avoiding conventionally grown crops ( in any case , organic farming can still create some nitrate pollution , see also below ) . |
| 19 | There may , however , be little or no change in the practices followed by individual schools . |
| 20 | If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 . |
| 21 | If hysterectomy does change bowel function it seems likely from our data that the primary problem is in the act of defecation rather than in colonic function , as there was little or no change in stool form yet half the subjects felt they were prone to constipation and a quarter strained with every recorded defecation . |
| 22 | Just as a change in liquid assets may lead to little or no change in credit , so a change in credit may occur with little or no change in liquid assets . |
| 23 | Just as a change in liquid assets may lead to little or no change in credit , so a change in credit may occur with little or no change in liquid assets . |
| 24 | Other important trading statements from Shell , Royal Insurance and British Gas caused few surprises and left little or no change in the share prices . |
| 25 | For those readers with little or no background in geology there are a number of excellent introductory texts . |
| 26 | I 'm afraid cold hosing will have little or no effect in helping concussion , it will however help filled and puffy legs . |
| 27 | Arsenal really do keep things tight ; they gave little or no room in which to manoeuvre . |
| 28 | Most primary teachers had had little or no science in their initial training . |
| 29 | Males with little or no shade in their territory often remain unpaired . |
| 30 | Hardcore porn is openly traded in the cities and exhibited in cinemas and video shops across the country , despite experimental zoning restrictions in certain areas , yet there has been little or no attempt in the courts or the legislatures to discriminate between the greater and lesser dangers it represents . |