Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duchess of Kent attends a Thanksgiving Service to mark the 150th Anniversary of the foundation of the West of England School for Children with Little or No Sight in Exeter Cathedral . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Initially , the minorities who were skilled and had competence in English , as well as those who were unskilled and had little or no competence in English , were offered unskilled jobs in textile firms , foundries , hospitals and in public transport . |
| 4 | But majority of the population , especially those from rural areas , and women , had little or no competence in English . |
| 5 | Second , there is little or no cooperation with other US museums . |
| 6 | In both schools discussed above , these terms were used sometimes interchangeably , sometimes quite precisely to distinguish different orders of activity , and sometimes with a vagueness which suggested little or no thought about what each might convey . |
| 7 | Most GPs have little or no opportunity for heroic intervention for , generally speaking , life-threatening illness is referred immediately to hospital . |
| 8 | Sometimes there is little or no overlap between the scores of individuals in Group A and the individuals in Group B ( see L. Milroy 1980 : 161 for an example ) , but more often there is considerable overlap . |
| 9 | There is therefore little or no scope for the clearing member who is not also a market member . |
| 10 | Within this section attention will be given to preparation not only for the selling task , in which there is little or no scope for the salesperson to bargain with the buyer , but also for where selling may involve a degree of negotiation between buyer and seller . |
| 11 | In a global rating questionnaire , patients reported little or no benefit during the air phase compared with moderate to much benefit during the oxygen phase . |
| 12 | Patients reported little or no benefit during the air phase compared with moderate to much benefit during the oxygen phase ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 13 | West Germany , Benelux and Denmark saw relatively little or no benefit to their own agriculture industry and were concerned to restrict the cost of the Directive . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For example , the aerospace sector — one of the most dollar-sensitive industries — has forward cover on its transactions out beyond 1994 and will thus feel little or no benefit from sterling 's fall against the dollar for some time to come . |
| 16 | The authoritarian family , on the other hand , is characterized by unequal inheritance and unbroken patrimony to just one son , by only the married heir cohabiting with his parents , and by little or no marriage between the children of two brothers . |
| 17 | Greek mental-health legislation is out of date and gives little or no protection to patients . |
| 18 | However , if you find yourself in Socks ' predicament , with little or no influence over your major stressors , here 's my five-point psychological damage-limitation plan : |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 21 | Reading a rightwing rather than a left-wing paper improved images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though it had little or no influence on images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 22 | If a superiority of one half-field derives from some fixed advantage of the contralateral cerebral hemisphere for the stimulus material in question then comparatively minor procedural differences ( e.g. Hiscock and Bergstrom , 1982 ) should have little or no influence on the outcome of an experiment . |
| 23 | Right-wing papers improved their readers ' images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged their readers ' images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though they had little or no influence upon their readers ' images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 24 | To the thin-skinned Ceauşescus , the broadcasts of Radio Free Europe and the BBC were intolerable , but they recognized that the émigré broadcasters had little or no influence in the West . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area — quite deliberately . |
| 27 | Developing countries , for example , consume many of the same goods as industrialised countries , but may have little or no expenditure on heating , public utilities , medicine , etc . |
| 28 | Conversely , if the product is in decline little or no expenditure on advertising will be permitted . |
| 29 | This course has proved of great value to students with little or no knowledge of the ancient languages , especially those whose interests are mainly in English or other European literatures , or in art history . |
| 30 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |