Example sentences of "little [coord] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The best mothers , wives and managers of households ’ , he wrote , ‘ know little or nothing of sexual indulgence . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ By that remark , I take it you mean that I know little or nothing about industrial or trade matters ? ’ |
| 3 | There is little or nothing in recent history that would give Britons cause to distrust their compatriots . |
| 4 | This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state . |
| 5 | All of his previous protagonists are shaped by conflicting forces with which they , supposedly , have little or nothing in common . |
| 6 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 7 | Disturbingly brutal and unashamedly cold , ‘ Naive ’ is the blown out of proportion result of a thousand petty squabbles between a whole welter of influences who have little or nothing in common . |
| 8 | This , however , is not helpful , for ‘ chose in action ’ is a notoriously vague term used to describe a mass of interests which have little or nothing in common except that they confer no right to possession of a physical thing , and which range from purely personal rights under a contract to patents , copyrights and trade marks . |
| 9 | Disturbingly brutal and unashamedly cold , ‘ Naive ’ is the blown out of proportion result of a thousand petty squabbles between a whole welter of influences who have little or nothing in common . |
| 10 | Masturbation , in fact , goes with either having a great deal of sex or very little or none at all . |
| 11 | Neither of these patterns of politics was really pulled into view by pluralism , because that perspective could not cope with too much raucous political activity — still less with too little or none at all . |
| 12 | But Charles knew very little and nothing at all about management , business and finance . |
| 13 | The conventions say little or nothing about actual combat , and were seen as supplementary to the 1907 Hague Regulations , which remained in force . |
| 14 | They saw little or nothing of each other . |
| 15 | Instead of maintaining the general domain of a text topic and preserving partial results to form hypotheses about new words and meanings , most natural language programs preserve little or nothing from one sentence to the next . |
| 16 | Gasping for breath , Gentle registered little or none of this , but pushed himself up from the wall to re-launch his attack . |