Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place the number of States that work diligently on their accident investigation responsibilities is regrettably rather small , and although their delegates may approach a divisional meeting with the same view of the agenda items their ideas can be , and all too frequently are , frustrated by States which make little or no contribution in this field of activity . |
| 2 | You will have noted from the Brintons extract on page 106 that some English texts make little or no use of conjunctions . |
| 3 | If this is a universal understanding of the grief process , how does the church assist the bereaved in the first stage of their loss , bearing in mind that many people who make little or no claim to Christian faith still look to the church to provide a fitting funeral rite ? |
| 4 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 5 | In a substantial proportion of cases dischargers normally display little or no objection to the standards imposed by the agency , as a result of preparatory work in negotiations conducted by the field officer together with , in more important cases , his area supervisor . |
| 6 | Oh yeah , decorate that and the hall . |
| 7 | I say this because the Sloth so far has done nothing and it appears he does n't plan to do anything except now he is reading a James Michener book . |
| 8 | ‘ It was a very acrimonious meeting , mostly about why we were changing lengths : the merchandisers were saying the customers want this and the designers were fighting their case and , as it was the first collection prepared without Laura present the whole time , it was not surprising that difficulties should surface , ’ Moira explained . |
| 9 | Port Solent has a choice of houses and apartments to suit the various needs of the yachtsman and those who want more than a home on the waterfront . |
| 10 | Deep deep in a limestone cave where the stalagmites grow less than an inch a century , but still tower so high as to humble the cathedrals of the surface , the shaking fear of the ground woke a dreaming dragon . |
| 11 | ’ Very faintly , ’ replied Grayson , referring to experimental evidence that the fine roots of Scots pine grow less and the leaves of poplars fall earlier in ambient than in unpolluted air . |
| 12 | Many industrial buying decisions involve more than the buyer and in some cases the technical specifier , production personnel and finance personnel are involved . |
| 13 | There is overwhelming evidence from the PEP survey to show that local concentrations of the racial minority groups are associated with poor housing , poor jobs and low incomes , and among Asians with large and often extended families with a high ratio of dependants to wage earners and consisting of people who speak little or no English . |
| 14 | People who speak little or no English may not understand the need for speed , and it may take time to get the information translated . |
| 15 | Anderson initially gives his academic status — " I am the J. S. Mill Professor of Ethics at the University of Cambridge " — invoking both his personal position and the prestige of his academic establishment , but the pomposity of such a reversal of the modesty maxim is absurd when his interlocutors speak little or no English . |
| 16 | The taskforce is one of about 16,500 non-profit organisations ( Bushwick alone has almost 30 of them ) that receive little or no taxpayers ' money . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A report produced jointly by the British Medical Association and the Health Visitors Association in 1989 warned that bed and breakfast accommodation constituted a serious risk to health , and many homeless families receive little or no health care . |
| 19 | Indeed , those employers that undertake training programmes stand the risk of having their workers with their newly acquired skills being poached by employers who undertake little or no training . |
| 20 | Those who undertake little or no training would pay the highest levy . |
| 21 | Conversely if the samples stored at the higher temperatures show little or no change , it may be possible to reduce the frequency of , or even omit , certain of the scheduled examinations at lower temperatures . |
| 22 | In addition , some polygynous species , like Burchell 's zebra ( Equus burchelli ) , show little or no size dimorphism while others , like the spotted hyena ( Crocuta crocuta ) and the Weddell seal ( Leptonychotes weddelli ) , even show reversed dimorphism ( Klingel , 1972 ; Kruuk , 1972 ; Stirling , 1969 ) . |
| 23 | Come on , pet , put that where the flies wo n't get it . ’ |
| 24 | I reckon that high interest rates , falling stock and asset values together with mounting unemployment makes the kill all but a certainty . |
| 25 | At The American College in London you earn more than a degree — you receive an education with a career focus and individual attention from faculty who are professionals in their fields . |
| 26 | As it is , basic-rate taxpayers who earn more than the £16,900 ceiling face a marginal tax rate of 25% , while those earning less than the ceiling face a rate of 34% . |
| 27 | If you earn more than the LEL , you pay contributions on all earnings — a big disincentive to raising your hours , and therefore your pay , by that small amount . |
| 28 | Against assorted sporting Peugeots , Volkswagens and Rovers , some of which cost less than the S depending on specification , Ford 's newcomer would n't stand a ghost of a chance and you do n't need a back-to-back group test to confirm it . |
| 29 | One strange thing is that the buzz is worse when the volume pot is turned half-way on and gets less noisy when full up , but even then it 's still noisier than my brother 's Squier which cost less than the pickups on my guitar ! |
| 30 | It 's estimated that over ten million people now earn less than the Council of Europe 's decency threshold for wages . |