Example sentences of "[adj] or [art] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people most affected by them — office workers and passers-by — have little or no influence on their design , and are dependent on the benevolence of the developer and on planning laws . |
| 2 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 3 | Reading a rightwing rather than a left-wing paper improved images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though it had little or no influence on images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 4 | If a superiority of one half-field derives from some fixed advantage of the contralateral cerebral hemisphere for the stimulus material in question then comparatively minor procedural differences ( e.g. Hiscock and Bergstrom , 1982 ) should have little or no influence on the outcome of an experiment . |
| 5 | Developing countries , for example , consume many of the same goods as industrialised countries , but may have little or no expenditure on heating , public utilities , medicine , etc . |
| 6 | Conversely , if the product is in decline little or no expenditure on advertising will be permitted . |
| 7 | Bruce , defending the expansion of university extra-mural work since the war , saw the future role of the WEA primarily as a student-body rather than as one with a teaching responsibility , ‘ an organisation of all adult students ’ with little or no emphasis on the working-class element : ‘ in the general interest , it would seem best … for the WEA to concentrate its attention upon the stimulation and organisation of demand … all but the most elementary pioneer work could become the responsibility of Extra-Mural Departments or local authorities ’ with the WEA left as ‘ the mouthpiece of lively , conscious student demand ’ . |
| 8 | The broad date span , 1700–1880 will be used to emphasise the continuity of development , with little or no emphasis on labels such as ‘ Neo-classicism ’ or ‘ Realism ’ . |
| 9 | Earlier this season Jim McCorry 's men accounted for Fermanagh in the league by the minimum margin , but that has little or no bearing on today 's match . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly these devices are distributed with little or no instruction on correct use — thus increasing women 's health problems . |
| 11 | He said he placed little or no reliance on either of them as to what happened . |
| 12 | There is , for example , little or no discussion on the possible distributional effects on different social groups of conservation policies regarding rural housing nor of the economic and social implications for rural housing of key settlement strategies . |
| 13 | British political science has little or no literature on political leadership . |
| 14 | The private sector , however , had no intention of extending coverage to those who could offer it little or no return on their balance sheet . |
| 15 | Unless the winch or car is very under-powered , pulling up steeper on a fast launch has little or no effect on launching speed . |
| 16 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 17 | Such transmitted signals have little or no effect on lights , motors and electrical equipment but they arc easily detected by an electronic circuit . |
| 18 | Clearly , the number of males a female mates with has little or no effect on the numbers of her offspring . |
| 19 | Native gels , circular dichroism spectra and differential scanning calorimetry ( C. M. Johnson , personal communication ) of purified mutant proteins show that the mutations have little or no effect on the stability and folding of the dimers , suggesting that changes in binding affinity result only from elimination of the intended intermolecular contacts . |
| 20 | Thus in cases in which pigment is produced , the presence of the 3.4-kb transcript correlates completely with the presence of black pigment , consistent with the effects of p mutations on eumelanosomes , while having little or no effect on pheomelanosomes . |
| 21 | Although treatment of secondary hyperprolactinaemia with a dopamine agonist may reduce plasma prolactin concentrations , it has little or no effect on the growth of a macroadenoma . |
| 22 | A more careful look at Fig 1 , reveals that , between the ages of about 15 and 18 years the age at first marriage has little or no effect on the age when the first birth occurs . |
| 23 | Although factors such as stature , age , and duodenal ulcer disease affect the absolute values of Vg they can have little or no effect on the changes in someone consequent upon smoking a cigarette : thus despite the small numbers studied the 25% fall is highly significant . |
| 24 | They are the points at which further information will have little or no effect on the ranking of the current set of hypotheses . |
| 25 | This in turn has a large effect on inflation and the balance of payments , but in the long run little or no effect on output and employment . |
| 26 | However , most operators ( 63 per cent ) believe the Tunnel will have little or no effect on their business . |
| 27 | Weir ( in Phillipson et al. , 1986 ) distinguishes between reassurance , warning against ‘ the bland , cosy suggestion that our troubles are all illusory and will melt away with little or no intervention on our part ’ , and encouragement in dealing with retired people . |
| 28 | Although SunSoft — indeed Sun as a whole — has given little or no ground on the issue of direct support for the Open Software Foundation 's Motif graphical user interface on its own Sparc systems , Watkins says the company is more than happy for third parties to supply it . |
| 29 | These give details of present site locations and some indication of permitted wastes , though little or no information on closed and abandoned sites . |
| 30 | The experienced drafter , with expertise in contract and commercial matters , may need little or no guidance on these matters . |