Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The ladinos teach mostly in Spanish and have little or no grasp of the languages or culture of their pupils . |
| 5 | Mainly middle-class , they often have little or no concept of the lives of working-class women , who are still the real victims of male oppression . |
| 6 | By not considering this as a possibility , the pilot gives himself little or no hope of a safe landing , especially if the alternative is a very low 360° turn and he is already flying rather slowly . |
| 7 | A cheque for £400 had been received from the Radcliffe Trustees , Mr Park had collected £389 of the £521 from ratepayers , but on 18 December 1896 , it was reported that a further debit of £21 6s 6d had been received from the Locomotive Department , increasing the total to £2,935 10s 7d , and none of the ratepayers who owed the uncollected £132 were property owners , so there was little or no hope of collecting it ; that was written off . |
| 8 | There may be little or no hope of finding those particular items , but there are many others to be collected , some as yet unrecorded . |
| 9 | Many proposed projects provided little or no guarantee of generating convertible currencies , and this made banks cautious in their approach to such projects . |
| 10 | The reason was that you had little or no awareness of what a bad situation you were in . |
| 11 | They expected workers to have little or no idea of their needs and to be out of sympathy with their interests or attitudes . |
| 12 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 13 | This can often result in very presentable end-products but , when questioned , the children may have little or no idea of what they have learned in the process . |
| 14 | Though applicants for registration may have little or no idea of charity law , the Charity Commissioners are bound by the existing law , and the process of registration can be complicated , lengthy and the results seemingly arcane , not to say incomprehensible , in the terms of the language required by the Charity Commissioners . |
| 15 | The layman who reads this document is left with little or no idea of what he is undertaking . |
| 16 | Teams traipsing off the field under little or no threat of rain when the medium pacers are on is the bitterest pill a spectator has to swallow ; closely followed by the frequent inability to restart the game promptly . |
| 17 | Many food-intolerant patients , with little or no sign of chemical sensitivity , are also unable to drink , which supports the idea that enzyme defects are important in food intolerance as well ( see p 232 ) . |
| 18 | The fingerboard is rosewood , after the fashion of '50s Les Paul Standards , and the pearl inlays have been expertly applied with little or no sign of filler around the edges to mar the effect . |
| 19 | They found that ‘ there was little or no accumulation of long-stay patients ’ during the period . |
| 20 | There is little or no discussion of principle . |
| 21 | There may have been little or no discussion of these issues , even among the higher clerics and ecclesiastical advisers , but Innocent was too polished a performer not to realize the public relations advantages of pronouncement in a general council . |
| 22 | Catholic nationalists could be and were arrested with little suspicion , detained , frequently beaten , and all with little or no possibility of redress . |
| 23 | Finally , as some of them are geographically isolated , there is little or no possibility of merging with other institutions . |
| 24 | There is little or no tradition of democratic government in these new states and the influence of Western liberal democratic traditions is not always likely to be great . |
| 25 | IBM 's PROF system for office workers is supposed to be for those with little or no experience of computers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As will be demonstrated , these systems have been designed to be operated by users with little or no experience of computing . |
| 29 | It is recommended that those who have little or no experience of investigation techniques should complete 81218 Community Welfare 1 . |
| 30 | It is recommended that those who have little or no experience of investigation techniques and/or group work skills should complete 81212 Local Investigations 1 prior to commencing 81220 Roles and Behaviour . |