Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] little [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutaways are a great help when you are trying to build a sequence of events over which you have little or no control . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Apart from Perrot , whose Giselle has survived , we have little or no idea what these choreographers were like . |
| 5 | At this point , where we have little or no capacity left to discriminate , we become almost unable to feel anything , whether good or bad . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area — quite deliberately . |
| 12 | They gather little or no data of their own , but instead tend toward ad hominem charges against the scholarly consensus . |
| 13 | They do little or no teaching , so they are always available . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 16 | Cellars are notorious for damp , and for wet and dry rot , because often they have little or no ventilation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 20 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 21 | Women are especially vulnerable to HIV in societies where they have little or no control over their sex lives . |
| 22 | Most feel , perhaps rightly , that they have little or no need for them , that they are able to and indeed profit from individualism . |
| 23 | They have little or no potential to effect the ozone layer ; either they contain no chlorine or they break down lower in the atmosphere . |