Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] or [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | People who speak little or no English may not understand the need for speed , and it may take time to get the information translated . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Those who undertake little or no training would pay the highest levy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Increased regulation to protect the interests of consumers was also made ( politically ) necessary by the privatization of state-owned monopolies such as the gas , electricity and water industries which , even after privatization , face little or no competition . |
| 17 | Those who read little or no SF associated relatively fewer items with SF . |
| 18 | Given that some exhibitions such as the recent ‘ Art of Death ’ attract little or no sponsorship , profits from crowd-pullers like the Japan show last year ( which attracted 180,000 visitors and made money ) are needed to be ploughed back into the funds . |
| 19 | Add little or no salt or sugar to food . |
| 20 | These sites , in their simplest form , betray little or no development away from the main frontages and there appears to have been no obvious urban focus within the plan . |
| 21 | The majority of illiterates , especially women in rural areas , know little or no Portuguese . |
| 22 | Well , with a membership of 32,000 and an unemployment level of 70% it follows that there are many members who get little or no work within the profession . |
| 23 | They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area — quite deliberately . |
| 24 | The child 's developing cognitive capacities mean that events which at one age produce little or no anxiety may , at another , be extremely distressing . |
| 25 | Residents in both kinds of estate are by and large socially self-sufficient and feel little or no necessity to create close relations with their Shetlander neighbours . |
| 26 | Most colleges it seems contained people made unhappy by sexual harassment , who find little or no support from the people charged to provide that support . |
| 27 | ( Some people produce few or no alpha rhythms , even when completely relaxed . ) |
| 28 | They gather little or no data of their own , but instead tend toward ad hominem charges against the scholarly consensus . |
| 29 | An intense field of humming guitars and amplified noise , Kill Laura 's songs similarly bear little or no resemblance to the rest of contemporary music , which is fine by me . |
| 30 | Although there are procedures for putting ‘ interrogatories ’ to another party at the pre-trial stage , they are little used in practice and bear little or no resemblance to the United States practice of ‘ oral depositions ’ before trial . |