Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we use cardboard boxes and even if you 're moving crockery , you put half or a third of what you 'd put in a tea chest goes into er a a a cardboard box . |
| 2 | You do one or the other , you do n't do both . |
| 3 | You do one or the other . |
| 4 | The limitations are the lack of footswitching between the clean/crunch and OD1/OD2 modes , and that I see as a drawback ( unless you find you prefer one or the other and stick to it ) . |
| 5 | Cutaways are a great help when you are trying to build a sequence of events over which you have little or no control . |
| 6 | However , if some setting that you have little or no first-hand experience of does happen to be what has made your imagination bubble and race , you need not cross it off altogether . |
| 7 | It is always tempting to sample the more ‘ interesting ’ sections of a sedimentary sequence and to find , on return to the laboratory , that you have few or no samples of the more mundane lithologies which comprise the greater portion of the sequence . |
| 8 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 9 | Apart from Perrot , whose Giselle has survived , we have little or no idea what these choreographers were like . |
| 10 | At this point , where we have little or no capacity left to discriminate , we become almost unable to feel anything , whether good or bad . |
| 11 | However , most of the time we have little or no idea what action results from articles in the Journal , or whether members would prefer other ways of getting involved . |
| 12 | Much of Vicki Hearne 's otherwise sensitive attempt to depict the complexity of canine discrimination , of which we have little or no inkling , is undermined by this mistake . |
| 13 | Some problem-solving will take the form of a deliberative weighing of consequences , although quite often we choose the least likely-looking solution or toss a coin , but equally frequently we have little or no time for debate . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 15 | THE BRITISH wives of American servicemen stationed in the United Kingdom must pay the poll tax even though they receive little or no benefit from public services , the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday . |
| 16 | They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area — quite deliberately . |
| 17 | They gather little or no data of their own , but instead tend toward ad hominem charges against the scholarly consensus . |
| 18 | They do little or no teaching , so they are always available . |
| 19 | Overgrowth cements on feldspars and carbonate echinoderm fragments are similar to quartz overgrowth cements in that they contain few or no inclusions or are commonly in optical continuity with the parent grain ( Fig. 5.27a , b ) . |
| 20 | They require little or no pruning or other attention , being remarkably resistant to disease , and are among the hardiest of all roses , thriving in conditions that would frighten the life out of most others . |
| 21 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 22 | Cellars are notorious for damp , and for wet and dry rot , because often they have little or no ventilation . |
| 23 | Loss of the loved one can raise the same intensity of emotion : a sense of betrayal , hatred of the betrayer , extreme jealousy of a rival-feelings over which a person may believe they have little or no control . |
| 24 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 25 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 26 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 27 | Women are especially vulnerable to HIV in societies where they have little or no control over their sex lives . |
| 28 | Most feel , perhaps rightly , that they have little or no need for them , that they are able to and indeed profit from individualism . |
| 29 | They have little or no potential to effect the ozone layer ; either they contain no chlorine or they break down lower in the atmosphere . |
| 30 | Under the 1953 Act , it is an offence to carry a weapon in a public place unless you have permission or a good reason , and the onus is on the carrier to show that they have one or the other . |