Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [art] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 2 | To be a plant must be to experience a hazy , quiescent state of consciousness , with focus diffused and little or no opportunity to create new karma . |
| 3 | He said copyart can be practised by people of differing abilities because it takes little or no skill to produce exciting and impressive images . |
| 4 | Residents in both kinds of estate are by and large socially self-sufficient and feel little or no necessity to create close relations with their Shetlander neighbours . |
| 5 | For example , some subordinates may enthusiastically welcome your enquiries , respond readily to indirect guidance and need little or no prompting to seek out information . |
| 6 | There has been an assumption that young visually impaired children have little or no ability to use tactile maps to find their way around , and it has been argued that there is little to be gained from introducing visually impaired children to maps at an early age . |
| 7 | Word processors were bulky specialist machines for dedicated producers of text , and operated independently with little or no ability to communicate . |
| 8 | Although there is little or no evidence to support the contention that those who deviate from shared sexual morality are likely to be ‘ deviant ’ in other ways as well , it was argued in Chapter two that it is precisely this quality that Mrs Whitehouse felt she had detected in young ‘ revolutionaries ’ such as Richard Neville . |
| 9 | There is little or no evidence to support this argument . |
| 10 | Some were embarrassingly naive about the rules of engagement and readily admitted their drug use even when we had little or no evidence to prove the point ; a most ‘ un-prig ’ like quality ! |
| 11 | There is no known proof of true hereditary surnames in the period before the Conquest , and although a number of Domesday tenants of English origins have names additional to their first — such as Alnod of Kent , a byname given to a man with land in Oxfordshire — there is little or no evidence to show that these were other than personal to the individuals . |
| 12 | The simplification of criminal procedure also may have discouraged false cases because defendants were put to less inconvenience when the charge had little or no evidence to substantiate it . |
| 13 | They have little or no potential to effect the ozone layer ; either they contain no chlorine or they break down lower in the atmosphere . |
| 14 | This pressure came from all sides — from outside France ( from the United Nations and the US , in particular ) ; from public opinion at home , which was showing a growing disenchantment with the war ; from advisers who argued that , for all the army 's military successes , the prospects of outright victory were distant and the FLN had little or no incentive to stop fighting ; and , last but not least , from his own impatience . |
| 15 | ‘ Change for change 's sake ’ is not our policy and as un-paid voluntary workers — going more or less flat out — we have little or no time to spare for non-essentials ! |
| 16 | So he has little or no time to release the glider , or to recover from the dive unless the upset occurs above about 500 feet , and then only if the rope breaks or the glider releases . |
| 17 | These last jetés would be completely out of place in Lander 's Etudes where a strong ‘ flick ’ outwards of the leading foot propels the dancer straight forwards through the air with little or no time to pause in arabesque on landing because the continuous repetition of this strong movement is intended to cover as much ground in as little time as possible . |
| 18 | The pressure on the analyst to increase productivity — to report more results — leaves little or no time to monitor the system . |
| 19 | However I learned from Daphne 's friend that my errant partner was to be discharged on 20 February 1919 , leaving me with little or no time to balance the books . |
| 20 | Control of public expenditure until the 1960s was highly fragmented and largely revolved around the consideration of annual estimates : there was little or no attempt to plan expenditure programmes for the medium or long term . |
| 21 | However , almost exclusively , early systems have made little or no attempt to use any such knowledge beyond that of the word level ( e.g. Earnest [ 1962 ] , Eden [ 1964 ] , Sayre [ 1973 ] , Tappert [ 1984 ] ) . |
| 22 | There was little or no attempt to denationalize the giant state monopolies thereafter . |
| 23 | By and large , the above are ‘ natural source ’ materials , with little or no attempt to balance the NPK content , and you will need to take this into account when you use them for whatever particular bias they give . |
| 24 | The middle school which both her older boys attended was a long walk from her home and made little or no attempt to involve parents . |
| 25 | With this limited view of ‘ overseas operations ’ there was little or no need to become trapped in a semantic jungle . |
| 26 | Freud 's difficulties arose because he did not fully appreciate the need for co-operation between patient and therapist : he was inclined to treat his patients as docile subjects with little or no role to play . |
| 27 | There is little or no reason to suppose that these are represented bilaterally in any or all left handers . |
| 28 | Without external evidence of a transformation , other states had little or no reason to follow de Gaulle 's lead . |
| 29 | For the time being Microsoft has its guns trained on the Unix application base , but it is taking little or no effort to persuade ISVs to port to an operating system that by even its own admission wo n't be around until next Spring at the earliest . |
| 30 | So sorry can I just ask , so in effect you have n't shifted your ground from the view which you expressed in paragraph three point six of your submission where you 've just confirmed in fact that you 'd rather have a proper or the ability to make a sort of proper measured allocations , part of which would make provision or allow the facility to cater for major inward investment ? |