Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A particular problem is that little or no quantitative regard has been paid until recently to the effects of quality variation in environmental data . |
| 2 | The cut may be made with little or no apparent awareness , the patient suddenly discovering that she has cut herself and at the same time experiencing a sense of relief . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , this prompted little or no useful information . |
| 4 | So far , the personnel mentioned in relation to ward teaching are those with little or no specific preparation for it . |
| 5 | In childhood children run wild , are subject to little or no educative influence and are generally indulged . |
| 6 | Staff should be made aware that some of the most sinister fetal heart rate decelerations ( late ) are often shallow and difficult to detect ; some of the most obvious with greatest amplitude ( variable ) may be of little or no pathological importance . |
| 7 | This brief ritual has little or no religious significance . |
| 8 | The researches of Keith Wrightson and David Levine have revealed that Terling was socially and culturally divided between , on the one hand , a godly elite of ‘ the better sort ’ — yeomen , substantial husbandmen , and craftsmen — who attempted to bring about a reformation of manners through their control of local offices ; and on the other , an illiterate ‘ multitude ’ with little or no religious commitment . |
| 9 | A much less demanding condition is one in which the saboteur is attempting to damage a plant about which he has little or no technical knowledge . |
| 10 | Similar to the Inland Recorded Delivery service , but for items of little or no monetary value , with compensation for loss or damage of £24. £1.90 plus postage . |
| 11 | Recorded Delivery is for ordinary letters or documents which have little or no monetary value . |
| 12 | In North Worcestershire also industrial growth made little or no visible impact on the structure of wealth , possibly because a man 's position in the rural hierarchy determined his choice of trade , In Yardley tile making had evolved as a major activity early in the fifteenth century ; along with tanning , which may still have been the principal industry in nearby Birmingham , it was practised by farmer-craftsmen , who mostly had well under £20 in goods , the £3 — £9 range forming a good two-thirds of the list : Thomas Walton , whose £11 was the highest assessment , made tiles and practised cooperage in winter . |
| 13 | Self-indexed files will need little or no prior formatting of the direct access device on which they are to be stored . |
| 14 | Most of the incidents " caused little or no environmental harm " . |
| 15 | Ironically , the recreational users and providers invariably argue that their pursuits have little or no environmental impact , and yet they are reluctant to share or publicise ‘ their sites ’ and resources — why ? |
| 16 | ‘ There was also little or no environmental impact . ’ |
| 17 | As a result there would have been little or no evolutionary pressure on cats to develop an anti-stranger reaction where kittens are concerned . |
| 18 | Unlike the indigenous tribes , they often have little or no agricultural know-how and simply slash and burn the forest as they go . |
| 19 | Up to then there had been little or no solid research in this field and the facts as to sexual elements in British society were still arcane . |
| 20 | At some point in training , then , the loss of effectiveness of the inhibitory association occasioned by a change of context will counteract the reduced effectiveness of the excitatory association more or less exactly and the outcome will be little or no net change in the observed CR . |
| 21 | Masulis studied the effect of changes in corporate structure effected by debt equity swaps and vice versa in which there was little or no net cash inflows or outflows from the firm . |
| 22 | The fact is that class conflict provided little or no revolutionary potential in Britain and that apathy was far more potent a force among the British working class than action . |
| 23 | Type I foci , which was regarded as not significant , consisted of condensed cells with little or no cellular overlap . |
| 24 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 25 | In most people the right side of the brain has little or no verbal capacity but is slightly more important than the left for spatial ability . |
| 26 | As there was little or no advance warning , those people who had paid for entertainment until 2am understandably felt short-changed . |
| 27 | However energy output fell in January , and the last three months together continue to suggest both manufacturing and energy output is flat , indicating little or no general progress out of the recession . |
| 28 | And of those cases , the majority involved matters of statutory interpretation with little or no political impact . |
| 29 | It will almost certainly include little or no personal equipment , as there simply is not enough space . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , as members of relatively poor peasant families , and so technically landless , most of these people can have owned little or no personal property in their own right . |