Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mother or , more often , the father who is separated for long periods or repeated shorter periods from the home ( through professional requirements , for example , or by prison sentence ) stands in danger of becoming an " inconsiderable " member of the family — one who is of the family group but who , in the child 's eyes , plays little or no part in its procedures , decisions and activities . |
| 2 | Doeringer distinguishes between three major divisions : a pragmatic approach in which theory plays little or no role although , as Eldridge ( 1975 , p. 7 ) has reminded us ‘ the pragmatists in emphasising the need for realistic solutions often carry a good deal of conceptual and theoretical baggage around with them ’ ; secondly , a Marxist approach , stressing class relations and conflict irreconcilability ; and , following Dunlop 's ( 1958 ) seminal work , the highly influential ‘ systems ’ model focusing on the rules of industrial relations and their determinants . |
| 3 | This question is made somewhat difficult to answer because one of the effects of the emphasis on the facts and merits of the particular case in Fleet Street Casuals is that the issue of standing now often receives little or no attention from the courts and is sometimes the subject of concessions by the respondent . |
| 4 | The Warsaw pact offers little or no help to Hungary in disputes with other East Europeans . |
| 5 | Therefore V c falls until it reaches the lower logic 0 threshold ( V- ) , upon which the output once more goes high and the cycle repeats . |
| 6 | Adeane understands this and the man elected Leader will be summoned . |
| 7 | If something goes wrong while a user is accessing LIFESPAN , the current displayed page is temporarily replaced by a ‘ Transaction Failure ’ page which describes the fault and tells the user what action to take ( usually to log off or consult the LIFESPAN Manager ) . |
| 8 | The time has wandered on to 11.15 pm and the only person that the august gathering has heard is the MC , but it is now time to introduce the first speaker , who needs little or no introduction . |
| 9 | After all , brewers are not paying tax on beer that contains little or no alcohol , so it should be half the price of normal beer . |
| 10 | With the passing of a potential meal , the fish lunges forward with its mouth wide , either swallowing in one go or clinging to a larger item which , once grasped , stands little or no chance . |
| 11 | The only clients for whom he has little or no sympathy are psychopaths ( ‘ a real bugbear ’ ) : he believes they waste volunteers ' time and can not be helped . |
| 12 | The bare infinitive in exclamations evokes therefore an incidence of the infinitive 's event to its support which can only be represented as potential since the speaker feels it has little or no chance of being real , of finding a place in real time . |
| 13 | Married couples , where one of the spouses has little or no income , should transfer income from deposits and investments into the account of the non-working spouse to use up his or her allowance — that is , a slice of tax free income . |
| 14 | If you do feel hungry , you can eat anything you like — as long as it has little or no fat in it . |
| 15 | The Soviet Union has little or no influence , let alone control , over the vast majority of them . |
| 16 | Already the estoppel doctrine has little or no relevance to transactions on The Stock Exchange under the TALISMAN system ; The Exchange and the member firms will ensure that the parties get what they have bargained for . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Competition of the specific complex formed on SSB by both the double stranded WT and complementary SSA in both cases is the result of the complementary strand binding to the SSB oligonucleotide forming a double stranded oligonucleotide for which the protein has little or no affinity . |
| 19 | These results also demonstrate that the protein complex has little or no affinity for the double stranded PPT element ( WT ) as assayed by gel retardation . |
| 20 | The protein binds to only one strand of the PPT element and has little or no specificity for the double stranded DNA species . |
| 21 | Earlier this season Jim McCorry 's men accounted for Fermanagh in the league by the minimum margin , but that has little or no bearing on today 's match . |
| 22 | The fact that adjectives have to be placed in front of nouns in English , for instance , means that their occurrence in this position has little or no significance because it is not the result of choice . |
| 23 | In the world of adults a 15-year-old usually has little or no reputation . |
| 24 | British political science has little or no literature on political leadership . |
| 25 | ‘ She has little or no sense of her own importance , ’ she might say . |
| 26 | The Bhutto government has little or no access and influence . |
| 27 | But this would be a faulty inference since the following is quite possible : X has no goodness , Y has little or no goodness , but X + Y has very great goodness . |
| 28 | Unless the winch or car is very under-powered , pulling up steeper on a fast launch has little or no effect on launching speed . |
| 29 | Clearly , the number of males a female mates with has little or no effect on the numbers of her offspring . |
| 30 | Although treatment of secondary hyperprolactinaemia with a dopamine agonist may reduce plasma prolactin concentrations , it has little or no effect on the growth of a macroadenoma . |