Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the expert is seen to be incompetent ( eg. if an accountant does not seem to provide sensible information ) or if his area of expertise is not widely acknowledged ( which is often the case with personnel department staff ) he will have little or no expert power . |
| 2 | It is relatively easy , therefore , to arrange the financial affairs of a non-UK domiciled resident so that little or no UK tax is suffered . |
| 3 | Parliamentary counsel in particular become weary of the criticism of their work by lawyers and non-lawyers , who do not appreciate the pressures under which they work and who not infrequently have little or no drafting experience . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Certain quality developments will have little or no cost saving effect but will improve patient safety — for example , the preferential use , wherever possible , of well tried drugs with a long safety record . |
| 7 | Such problems are usually confined to ponds in which there is little or no water movement , and generally occur at night . |
| 8 | Thus despite the companies ' use of highly toxic chemicals , such as cyanide , there appears to have been little or no state regulation of the environmental impact of mining , until the Navan mines project . |
| 9 | It is essential to work the trapezius muscles , otherwise a stooped , round-shouldered posture will result ; this is a common fault with people who do a lot of chest work but little or no back work . |
| 10 | This usually crops up when fairly young people and school-leavers apply for jobs , because the interviewer has little or no work record by which to judge the calibre of the applicants . |
| 11 | Ulph ( 1987 ) points out that those who earn close to the tax threshold will enjoy little or no income effect from the tax cut so that the substitution effect should dominate , causing them to work more hours . |
| 12 | A tribal chieftain , Haji Ghulam , argues that with little or no government development , and rising unemployment , it is the right of tribals to grow opium and process it . |
| 13 | Newspaper publicity always gave the impression that the school could train anyone from scratch with little or no dance experience so young readers felt that they could just turn up without an appointment and would immediately be seen by this apparently motherly woman called Jennie Tiller . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | An important aspect of the teacher 's job is the size of the class he or she is expected to teach ( on average , this is greater than the pupil/teacher ratio , as calculations of the latter include staff who do little or no classroom teaching ) . |
| 16 | But , as ambient water temperature falls , they will need food that is easily digestible so that , should a sudden cold snap occur , there will be little or no waste matter to decay in their gut . |
| 17 | But now this much vaunted initiative has foundered because there is little or no market interest in redevelopment . |
| 18 | Moreover , whereas America has a substantial history of the employment of professionals trained for their role ( most states lay down a minimum requirement of so many credit hours in education and library science at undergraduate and postgraduate levels ) , by far the majority of secondary school libraries in Britain are run in a few supposedly " free " periods during a week , by classroom teachers with little or no librarianship training . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The world of publishing was a ferocious one , and for Lear — a gullible young man with little or no business acumen , and with an expensive project on his hands , — it was to prove ruinous . |
| 21 | More passive , less constructive activity with little or no end result , will have been the norm , like watching television or having a pint at the local pub . |
| 22 | Stage 1 Generic Sciences modules provide a starting point for those students with little or no science background and will be particularly useful for programmes being developed for adult returners or for those with Standard Grade at Grade 5/6 who wish to continue in science . |
| 23 | The forest routes are in many ways ideal for these activities because ( a ) there is little or no motor traffic , ( b ) the tracks are well maintained , and ( c ) the trees provide shelter . |
| 24 | This measure gives a good index of the tonic level of muscular relaxation In light sleep , in identifying periods of movement which may contribute to outside interference in the EEG and EOG channels , and is crucial in determining the presence of REM ( rapid eye movement ) sleep , when there is little or no EMG activity . |
| 25 | QBE , proposed by Zloof in 1974 is designed for users with little or no programming experience . |
| 26 | Erm the , the other thing I noticed was that there is very little or no eye contact at all with Martin so you , you were never really looking at him when you were asking questions or when he was giving you the answers back , so there was no er visual acknowledgement whenever he was , he was coming back to you . |
| 27 | Little or no methylase activity was detectable with the temperature-sensitive enzyme at either 30° or 42° ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 28 | Although Moscovitch argued that the right hemisphere showed little or no language ability , other workers have since been less dismissive . |
| 29 | If the manager had no commitment , there would be little or no training aspect . |
| 30 | You would then have the right to organise her work and most certainly you would see to it that she had little or no large-animal work . |