Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 2 | Appearance , texture and smell : Unadjusted a detergent would be a thin , translucent , colourless liquid with little or no smell or a white powder generally unattractive . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What chances there are of the underclass obtaining any work are largely confined to this secondary and flexible labour market , and that part which is characterized by less security of employment , low pay and little or no pension or fringe benefits . |
| 5 | We need to be aware that many of the ideas we introduce on an assumption that they are reflecting the children 's backgrounds may have little or no meaning or relevance for the children . |
| 6 | Add little or no salt or sugar to food . |
| 7 | That is , inner cities are perceived as ‘ deviant communities ’ , areas which need to be turned around and brought back into the mainstream , a mainstream that requires little or no restructuring or reform . |
| 8 | One is intensive arable as in the Fens , New Holland in Lincolnshire , and on much of the chalk ; there are few or no hedges or trees , but open country with no sense of enclosure or division . |
| 9 | Overgrowth cements on feldspars and carbonate echinoderm fragments are similar to quartz overgrowth cements in that they contain few or no inclusions or are commonly in optical continuity with the parent grain ( Fig. 5.27a , b ) . |
| 10 | The energy will flow from one object to another if a sympathy or attractability exists between them . |
| 11 | ( a ) conducted in a lawful and orderly manner such that no nuisance or annoyance is caused to the University or others lawfully on the University 's premises and that the University 's name or standing is not brought into disrepute . |
| 12 | The grounds for relief were , inter alia , that Lautro failed to comply with the rules of natural justice and to act fairly in that it failed before the service of the notice to inform the applicant or Winchester of the allegations being made therein , failed to allow Winchester or its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised company representatives the opportunity of answering or responding to the allegations made against them , failed to take into account the interest of Winchester , its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised representatives when deciding to exercise the notice ; that Lautro acted unreasonably and came to a decision such that no person or body properly directing itself on the relevant law and acting reasonably could have reached in that it acted with bias against Winchester and its officials , issued the notice at a time its investigations were incomplete and on the basis of findings which were erroneous and provisional , and failed to conclude its investigations before serving the notice ; and that Lautro acted ultra vires and in error of law in that the rights of appeal applied to any person subject to the rules of Lautro whether or not members . |
| 13 | In the sixties , fashion was such that a girl or a fella could afford a new Biba dress or John Stephen shirt every other week , they cost 35s 9d and who cared if they fell apart at the launderette . |
| 14 | We do n't see it as much as a business or a pressure like he does . |
| 15 | His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick . |
| 16 | the first £25 of each and every loss or damage ; |
| 17 | We shall not be responsible for the first £100 of each and every loss or damage from any of the causes specified in Paragraphs 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 and ( if applicable ) Paragraph 14 of Part 1 of Section 1 of this Policy . |
| 18 | We shall not be responsible for the first £100 of each and every loss or damage under Part 1 of Section 2 of this Policy . |
| 19 | The additional cover required is for a further £500,000 in respect of each and every claim or a further £2 million on an aggregate basis . |
| 20 | Even if one has good scientific ideas , it is never enough just to publish them : the world will never beat a pathway to the door of the scientific recluse ; and all that the Avogadro or the Mendel can hope for is posthumous fame . |
| 21 | it may sound impossible to many that a sergeant or a young junior officer coming straight from the Empire Training Scheme either in Canada or Rhodesia , was a far better prospect than shall we say a group captain or a wing commander , or even a squadron leader , who had spent the entire war in the training machine . |
| 22 | Not only had they no documents going back more than a century or two , but much of what they ‘ knew ’ was merely myth and legend . |
| 23 | The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) . |
| 24 | One thing you will notice at times when you are watching the barbel is the extraordinary way they flip belly-upwards to take food that is more than a foot or so off bottom . |
| 25 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 26 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 27 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 28 | The temperature rise is often no more than a degree or two . |
| 29 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 30 | The next chapter examines the governmental context of Charles 's fiscal and monetary methods : his imitation of late-Roman emperors was something more than a charade or a figleaf for impotence . |