Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will consider the conditions under which government policies have been conducive or a constraint to NGO activity . |
| 2 | West Germany , Benelux and Denmark saw relatively little or no benefit to their own agriculture industry and were concerned to restrict the cost of the Directive . |
| 3 | Greek mental-health legislation is out of date and gives little or no protection to patients . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Generation has a significant role in this paradigm because in many bilingual communities , the first generation who settled in Britain from abroad were native speakers of a language very unlike English and had had little or no exposure to English . |
| 6 | The Warsaw pact offers little or no help to Hungary in disputes with other East Europeans . |
| 7 | A producer is chosen to mould the natural sound of the band into a new format , and the mesmerised band wander out of the studio clutching a product bearing little or no resemblance to the demo they went in with . |
| 8 | But the industries that eventually do pile in will probably bear little or no resemblance to AFFs ‘ profile ’ . |
| 9 | An intense field of humming guitars and amplified noise , Kill Laura 's songs similarly bear little or no resemblance to the rest of contemporary music , which is fine by me . |
| 10 | Although there are procedures for putting ‘ interrogatories ’ to another party at the pre-trial stage , they are little used in practice and bear little or no resemblance to the United States practice of ‘ oral depositions ’ before trial . |
| 11 | Often they carry crude woodcuts ( which may have little or no relevance to the contents ) . |
| 12 | Is it not possible for the Council to devise rules to eliminate such resolutions which have little or no relevance to the purposes and work of the national trust ? |
| 13 | Already the estoppel doctrine has little or no relevance to transactions on The Stock Exchange under the TALISMAN system ; The Exchange and the member firms will ensure that the parties get what they have bargained for . |
| 14 | They are free to rotate and the brakes work , so if for any reason a wheels-up arrival is made there should be little or no damage to the airframe . |
| 15 | The reason for being aware of sexism in language is that it biases experience constantly towards the male sex and gives little or no prominence to the role of women in society . |
| 16 | The block vote makes terrible television , as millions of votes are marshalled on behalf of union members with little or no loyalty to the party . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Regardless of where their support came from , the fact was that possession of 38 seats in the Volkstag meant they could now rule with little or no reference to the other parties . |
| 19 | Candidates must now set up personal machines manned by workers attracted to them by their individual qualities and stands on the issues with little or no reference to party loyalty . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Some writers have pointed out that the notion of professionalism is occasionally used to improve the image , prestige and rewards of teachers with little or no reference to any commitment to improve educational practice . |
| 22 | Within this area of what could be called ‘ pure phonology ’ , problems are examined with little or no reference to their relevance to the language learner . |
| 23 | His requests for money in Aquitaine met with resistance , for in a real sense the expedition had brought little or no advantage to the duchy . |
| 24 | By implication , Levitt takes the view that a global market should be viewed as one with particular market segments that may bear little or no relationship to geographical boundaries . |
| 25 | They too complain of pain whose severity bears little or no relationship to the tissue destruction . |
| 26 | Eve Bendall ( 1976 ) in ‘ Teaching for reality ’ states that ‘ … the major part of written answers to nursing questions bear little or no relationship to the nursing performance of the writer in 80% of trainees ’ , and she goes on to say ‘ … we are producing trained nursing staff who are ( through no fault of their own ) woefully lacking in many of the skills they need . ’ |
| 27 | This latter fund simply collects together all the appropriations of expenditure made by Parliament and is financed broadly by taxation and borrowing in proportions which bear little or no relationship to the underlying ‘ capital ’ and ‘ revenue ’ spending . |
| 28 | A very simple thing which works every time and causes little or no disturbance to the fish . |
| 29 | Sir — Both the government and the opposition parties have been given one clear ringing message by the voters in the election : that environmental issues are of little or no concern to them . |
| 30 | This made little or no sense to them . |