Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] [coord] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This seems to support the view that link verbs play little or no role in pushing the communication forward and therefore have no rhematic status . |
| 32 | They do little or no teaching , so they are always available . |
| 33 | More than 30 per cent overweight and unfit If you are more than 30 per cent overweight and you get puffed our easily , do little or no exercise , and consider yourself unfit , you should begin by following the recommendations gradually . |
| 34 | 10–30 per cent overweight and not as fit as you should be If you are between 10 and 30 per cent overweight , and similarly you get puffed out easily , do little or no exercise , and consider yourself unfit , you too should begin by exercising gently . |
| 35 | An important aspect of the teacher 's job is the size of the class he or she is expected to teach ( on average , this is greater than the pupil/teacher ratio , as calculations of the latter include staff who do little or no classroom teaching ) . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Also , current recommendations for screening for stroke and major coronary events by blood pressure measurements are not rational in that they take little account of the absolute risk of these diseases , specifying cut off levels for blood pressure screening that take little or no account of age . |
| 38 | However , the general precedents often contain little or no guidance about when to use a particular form , or why a particular term is drafted in a particular way ( although many firms ' own in-house precedents are accompanied by a commentary explaining the terms and offering suggestions for modifications ) . |
| 39 | The Endowment Appeal is to fund the College 's teaching Fellowships — many of which still have little or no endowment — and is aimed primarily at Somervillians and at Trusts . |
| 40 | Whereas they all currently specialise either in advanced academic credit-bearing courses of one or two years , or in short courses for groups who often have little or no contact with each other , Northern College 's founders hoped to combine long courses with ten-week courses so that students would benefit from having the continuity of learning associated with the long courses alongside the fresher experiences and perceptions of students on short courses . |
| 41 | There has been an assumption that young visually impaired children have little or no ability to use tactile maps to find their way around , and it has been argued that there is little to be gained from introducing visually impaired children to maps at an early age . |
| 42 | At this point , where we have little or no capacity left to discriminate , we become almost unable to feel anything , whether good or bad . |
| 43 | The type of orientation described above is often given when students have little or no motivation actually to use the library . |
| 44 | Parliamentary counsel in particular become weary of the criticism of their work by lawyers and non-lawyers , who do not appreciate the pressures under which they work and who not infrequently have little or no drafting experience . |
| 45 | Even at 70 , the energetic Mr Chance can not do enough for those he feels have been restricted in their activities and their education and have little or no chance of mixing with the community . |
| 46 | A range of critics ( including Coate , 1983 ; Hamel and Prahalad , 1985 ; Porter , 1985 ; Naylor , 1982 , 1986 ; Prahalad and Doz , 1987 ) have emphasized that the validity of the portfolio-matrix approach depends fundamentally on the existence of SBUs which have little or no interdependence in a corporate group 's portfolio . |
| 47 | Cellars are notorious for damp , and for wet and dry rot , because often they have little or no ventilation . |
| 48 | The people most affected by them — office workers and passers-by — have little or no influence on their design , and are dependent on the benevolence of the developer and on planning laws . |
| 49 | women who are members of religious communities and have little or no income . |
| 50 | Is it not possible for the Council to devise rules to eliminate such resolutions which have little or no relevance to the purposes and work of the national trust ? |
| 51 | Some of the machair lochs have little or no sediment because of intensive wind fetch and wave erosion . |
| 52 | Counter-trade is used by countries that suffer from acute foreign currency shortages and have little or no credit facilities to finance normal trade flows . |
| 53 | Most GPs have little or no opportunity for heroic intervention for , generally speaking , life-threatening illness is referred immediately to hospital . |
| 54 | It is recommended that those who have little or no experience of investigation techniques should complete 81218 Community Welfare 1 . |
| 55 | It is recommended that those who have little or no experience of investigation techniques and/or group work skills should complete 81212 Local Investigations 1 prior to commencing 81220 Roles and Behaviour . |
| 56 | Apart from Perrot , whose Giselle has survived , we have little or no idea what these choreographers were like . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Nevertheless it is necessary to use some specialised terminology in order to define pupils who have little or no sight , so that their needs can be realistically exposed and appropriately met . |
| 59 | Mainly middle-class , they often have little or no concept of the lives of working-class women , who are still the real victims of male oppression . |
| 60 | The ladinos teach mostly in Spanish and have little or no grasp of the languages or culture of their pupils . |