Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] or [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Institute of Patentees and Inventors and several parliamentarians were able to cite instances where employees had received little or no material reward beyond their ordinary salary following the successful commercial exploitation of their invention by the employer or the employer 's licensees . |
| 2 | Such theories take the individual as the starting point ; and the inherent sociality that we are arguing for — and which precludes any form of methodological individualism — is given little or no credence . |
| 3 | Laissez-faire style Subordinates are given little or no direction at all , and are allowed to establish their own objectives and make all their own decisions . |
| 4 | Subjects given extensive pre-training in applying labels to the stimuli learned the motor task more readily than others given little or no pretraining . |
| 5 | Although SunSoft — indeed Sun as a whole — has given little or no ground on the issue of direct support for the Open Software Foundation 's Motif graphical user interface on its own Sparc systems , Watkins says the company is more than happy for third parties to supply it . |
| 6 | The areas covered include some which have attracted little or no interest in the past , but are considered worthy of investigation because of their geological setting . |
| 7 | This means they have added little or no mark-up ( see page 145 ) — they are selling the item(s) at a loss . |
| 8 | On the other side of the argument is the fact that over one-fourth of the respondent firms in the survey did not have an environmental scanning system in evidence , only 5% of the firms were using the most sophisticated environmental scanning system available ( i.e. they have an environmental scanning unit which is tied to the planning process , utilizes computer data banks , involves most countries in which they operate and integrates environmental information on a worldwide basis ) , and 51% of the respondents still reported little or no computerization being used in the process . |
| 9 | Alternatively , if you are not happy with your design , perhaps because some of it has come unglued or a crease has formed in the backing material , then you will have to remove the glass and rectify the problem before starting this process all over again . |
| 10 | Mr Rayner also attacked Cleveland County Council 's plans for a light rail transit system and said Middlesbrough Borough Council had made little or no provision for cyclists . |
| 11 | There are young autistic adults living independent lives and usefully employed , and others who have made little or no contact with the world they have entered . |
| 12 | The schools where staff had made little or no input into financial decisions were both experiencing cutbacks equivalent to a cut of 5 per cent to 10 per cent of teaching staff . |
| 13 | They say the introduction of the new national curriculum has made little or no difference . |
| 14 | Few heads had allocated any of their extra capitation to the development of productive links with parents and the community , while nearly all of them considered that such PNP resources as the Authority 's advisory and support staff , the INSET programme and even the refurbishment of their own schools had made little or no impact on home-school links , however effective they may have been in furthering the programme 's other objectives . |
| 15 | Charming she thought , feeling acutely humiliated , especially as it drove home the fact that she 'd made little or no impact upon this man . |
| 16 | However , almost exclusively , early systems have made little or no attempt to use any such knowledge beyond that of the word level ( e.g. Earnest [ 1962 ] , Eden [ 1964 ] , Sayre [ 1973 ] , Tappert [ 1984 ] ) . |
| 17 | Found in savanna woodland and grassland wherever there is such terrain throughout subsaharan Africa , the warthog is one of the classic wild pigs , an animal whose distinctive countenance seems to stick in the mind of anyone who 's ever seen one or a picture of one . |
| 18 | Tutors were offered little or no training , or even access to fulltime employment , not to mention a career structure . |
| 19 | Sex Education for Children with Disabilities Here 's a booklet that could be very helpful to parents of disabled children who so often are viewed as not having sexual feelings and who , as a result , have sometimes had little or no sex education . |
| 20 | Sex Education for Children with Disabilities Here 's a booklet that could be very helpful to parents of disabled children who so often are viewed as not having sexual feelings and who , as a result , have sometimes had little or no sex education . |
| 21 | Generation has a significant role in this paradigm because in many bilingual communities , the first generation who settled in Britain from abroad were native speakers of a language very unlike English and had had little or no exposure to English . |
| 22 | The role of generalization decrement in these experiments can be investigated by comparing the effects on excitatory responding of an added stimulus that has had little or no pre-exposure with those produced by a stimulus that has undergone latent inhibition training . |
| 23 | Obviously , the heroin use of their son or daughter came as a great shock to most parents , many of whom seem to have had little or no idea that their offspring was involved in any drug use whatsoever , let alone daily heroin use . |
| 24 | It is important to bear in mind , however , that in July 1960 the Soviet leaders could have had little or no intimation of exactly how imbalanced their economic relationship with Cuba was destined to become . |
| 25 | At the same time , they will find themselves caught up in moves to develop new organizational procedures , new teaching situations and new assessment techniques , many of which , such as one-to-one dialogue and negotiation with pupils , they will have had little or no experience of . |
| 26 | Project 2000 students are involved in preparation and presentation of seminars , as are polytechnic and university undergraduates , whereas the vast majority of nurses whose route to registration was via a traditional preregistration course might have had little or no experience of teaching . |
| 27 | The consumer has had little or no choice in the matter : without organic food widely available it has not been possible to choose to avoid creating nitrate pollution by avoiding conventionally grown crops ( in any case , organic farming can still create some nitrate pollution , see also below ) . |
| 28 | The findings have tended to support the view that the police are held in relatively high esteem , although those polled have invariably had little or no contact with the police in any capacity . |
| 29 | Most primary teachers had had little or no science in their initial training . |
| 30 | The curriculum at the medical schools does not make the study of dermato-venereology compulsory , and it is not unusual for a doctor to qualify in France having had little or no training in these subjects . |