Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Quencher centres : where even the excited state of the centre is close to a radiationless transition level , so little or no luminescence is emitted .
2 It is also important to remember that where jobs are indeed a problem , as in Ireland , postgraduate research positions should be clearly seen as making a major contribution to employment — where else would employment cost so little and the employee undergo intensive training ?
3 Not only that but a drought in Maharashtra in 1987 and 1988 , probably the most severe of the century in the subcontinent , has caused barely a ripple of news interest in the world .
4 Not only that but a change in methods of working , in its ethos and what were seen as its privileges , such as index-linked pensions , was to follow .
5 Not only that but the Board predicted that with its second station it could improve substantially on the Sizewell performance , setting British construction times and operating records among the best in the world .
6 Not only that but the din caused by , among others , a small group of drummers , who always seem to arrive at various major sporting fixtures in Brazil , hardly helped either .
7 Not only that but the receptionist may control access to individuals within the organisation and hence play an important role as ‘ gatekeeper ’ to the organisation .
8 Not only that but the decline of capitalism was of such a character each step taken represented a positive move in the direction of socialism .
9 Only this and the hissing of the wind .
10 Er they say that 's where most of it went on er they would go into the pub and the riveter would tally up the the sheet for the week and say well okay , that 's , you know , the holder-on gets so much and the rivet boy gets so much , and the riveter got so much , and what have you .
11 Er about this strike and er but time went on and it became obvious that er nobody were going to win only the boss like this boss , course he was he was scratching through , and so they called the strike off and every person who worked at er every firm had a meeting and they all decided to take so many and every firm took so many of the workers and so nobody was ever unemployed as a consequence of the strike which was very very good .
12 There is thus little or no tendency for molecules of one component to hinder or help the escape into the vapour phase of molecules of the other component .
13 In well-winnowed sediments there is generally little or no matrix , leaving resultant pore spaces which may be partially or totally occluded ( or filled ) by cement during diagenesis ( Fig. 5.2b ) .
14 As the employer dictated the contract of employment there was usually little or no liability .
15 Similarly , one can not talk about contemporary Chinese , Russian or Balkan weaving groups , because there is usually little or no difference in the character and appearance of rugs made in the various centres throughout each country .
16 The most noticeable feature is that there is still little or no evidence of multi-culturalism .
17 For the French , under little or no pressure it was back-to-business as a display of clinical finishing when faced with feeble tackling lead to a record score .
18 The development of a central cook-chill facility to be located at a unit yet to be decided , to service both that and the group 's other restaurants .
19 To avoid both this and the possibility of being forced into national level negotiation with Wilson , the Federation Council at a meeting held on 29 November 1912 , resolved " that the state of the shipping trade warrants a substantial increase in the wages of seamen all round the coast from January 1st. next , and that meetings of the district committees to give effect to this resolution be held forthwith " .
20 The cost of enteric outbreaks is often underestimated , and both this and the need to extend the scope of monitoring to include patients in community-based smaller homes or nursing homes with contracted beds was discussed by Murdoch ( 1990 ) .
21 Fateh-ul-Mulk had been poisoned in a court intrigue well before 1857 , but his six-year-old son , the Princess 's father , had survived both this and the Mutiny .
22 The camera had to get both this and the foreground action ( which in fact was further away than the glass and shot through it ) into focus while creating a convincing effect — too sharp a focus on the glass painting might be counter-productive , revealing its flatness and unchanging lighting .
23 I particularly like the writer 's use of reductions of the O.S. 1:2500 scale maps in both this and the book produced on the Bishop 's Castle Railway , covering the full length of the tracks in question .
24 And now it was yesterday and the day before that and the day before that .
25 A Department of the Environment report on eleven such schemes found that there was often little or no consultation with tenants over the future of their homes and only a small proportion of the purchasers were local authority tenants or people on the council waiting list .
26 This principle applies in full force in dealing with the harmonic idioms of the present day , in which discords are approached and quitted with the utmost freedom , and there is often little or no feeling of resolution at all , for there must always be ‘ part-writing ’ and the notes must ‘ go somewhere ’ and not be left in the air , so to speak , even if the progressions are not in accord with nineteenth-century harmonic notions .
27 When I had got my breath back , I said , ‘ Yes , we can , but it will cost three times as much and the Party will have to be responsible for getting people to come to it . ’
28 West Germany , Benelux and Denmark saw relatively little or no benefit to their own agriculture industry and were concerned to restrict the cost of the Directive .
29 Having selected the data , the investigators will study features such as the pitch , rhythm and loudness of syllables in the data , and spend relatively little or no time studying the lexis or the morphology .
30 The loan book must contain virtually all the liverymen of the various companies , though not necessarily all the yeomen , nor indeed any but a fraction of the membership of the poorest crafts : only a single weaver is listed , though there was a livery of thirty and a full membership of seventy in 1546 .
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