Example sentences of "[adj] or [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I do n't think anyone here as an elected member , needs to defend their positions if they wish to move from a political or a bureaucratic policy to something which is more pluralist and much more representative of the kind of policies that this council should be discussing not only now but also in the future . |
| 2 | The time has come when the fact ought to be generally admitted that the amount of government … which is necessary to the welfare or even to the existence of a civilised community , can not permanently co-exist with the effective belief that deference to public opinion is in all cases the sole or the necessary basis of a democracy . |
| 3 | However , what does seem to me to be both dangerous and impermissible is the judicial superimposition , under the guise of statutory construction , of a principle , supposedly based on some parliamentary intention nowhere expressed , that genuine transactions carried out in conformity with unequivocal statutory provisions are to be annulled or rendered ineffective because undertaken with either the sole or the predominant motive of obtaining the fiscal benefits which those provisions confer . |
| 4 | If no play was possible or a prescribed period was lost this premium payment would entitle the holder to get his money back . |
| 5 | In all cases , then , whether the infinitive evokes the possible or the real actualization of its event , the person of the to infinitive is referred to two positions in time , one before , one coinciding with this event 's place in time . |
| 6 | We need to know whether it is a 10-strong or a seven-strong management committee , with a majority of management representatives . |
| 7 | Though the Japanese are by no means a lazy or an idle race , and though they possess none of that apathetic indolence common to those Eastern races who dwell beneath a tropical sun , still all notions of speed , haste or flurry are utterly foreign to their nature . |
| 8 | The 10th , 14th and 27th are departure points , whether this means leaving the past behind in a literal or a figurative way . |
| 9 | Administration of bFGF ( 3–300 µg/kg/day ) by an intragastric or an intraperitoneal route or sucralfate ( 400 mg/kg/day ) orally to rats with acetic acid induced gastric ulcers , enhanced the healing rate of these ulcers during seven day treatment in a dose dependent manner . |
| 10 | A particular problem is that little or no quantitative regard has been paid until recently to the effects of quality variation in environmental data . |
| 11 | The cut may be made with little or no apparent awareness , the patient suddenly discovering that she has cut herself and at the same time experiencing a sense of relief . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , this prompted little or no useful information . |
| 13 | So far , the personnel mentioned in relation to ward teaching are those with little or no specific preparation for it . |
| 14 | In childhood children run wild , are subject to little or no educative influence and are generally indulged . |
| 15 | Staff should be made aware that some of the most sinister fetal heart rate decelerations ( late ) are often shallow and difficult to detect ; some of the most obvious with greatest amplitude ( variable ) may be of little or no pathological importance . |
| 16 | This brief ritual has little or no religious significance . |
| 17 | The researches of Keith Wrightson and David Levine have revealed that Terling was socially and culturally divided between , on the one hand , a godly elite of ‘ the better sort ’ — yeomen , substantial husbandmen , and craftsmen — who attempted to bring about a reformation of manners through their control of local offices ; and on the other , an illiterate ‘ multitude ’ with little or no religious commitment . |
| 18 | A much less demanding condition is one in which the saboteur is attempting to damage a plant about which he has little or no technical knowledge . |
| 19 | Similar to the Inland Recorded Delivery service , but for items of little or no monetary value , with compensation for loss or damage of £24. £1.90 plus postage . |
| 20 | Recorded Delivery is for ordinary letters or documents which have little or no monetary value . |
| 21 | In North Worcestershire also industrial growth made little or no visible impact on the structure of wealth , possibly because a man 's position in the rural hierarchy determined his choice of trade , In Yardley tile making had evolved as a major activity early in the fifteenth century ; along with tanning , which may still have been the principal industry in nearby Birmingham , it was practised by farmer-craftsmen , who mostly had well under £20 in goods , the £3 — £9 range forming a good two-thirds of the list : Thomas Walton , whose £11 was the highest assessment , made tiles and practised cooperage in winter . |
| 22 | Self-indexed files will need little or no prior formatting of the direct access device on which they are to be stored . |
| 23 | Most of the incidents " caused little or no environmental harm " . |
| 24 | Ironically , the recreational users and providers invariably argue that their pursuits have little or no environmental impact , and yet they are reluctant to share or publicise ‘ their sites ’ and resources — why ? |
| 25 | ‘ There was also little or no environmental impact . ’ |
| 26 | As a result there would have been little or no evolutionary pressure on cats to develop an anti-stranger reaction where kittens are concerned . |
| 27 | Unlike the indigenous tribes , they often have little or no agricultural know-how and simply slash and burn the forest as they go . |
| 28 | Up to then there had been little or no solid research in this field and the facts as to sexual elements in British society were still arcane . |
| 29 | At some point in training , then , the loss of effectiveness of the inhibitory association occasioned by a change of context will counteract the reduced effectiveness of the excitatory association more or less exactly and the outcome will be little or no net change in the observed CR . |
| 30 | Masulis studied the effect of changes in corporate structure effected by debt equity swaps and vice versa in which there was little or no net cash inflows or outflows from the firm . |