Example sentences of "have little [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 If you do feel hungry , you can eat anything you like — as long as it has little or no fat in it .
5 The Soviet Union has little or no influence , let alone control , over the vast majority of them .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The protein binds to only one strand of the PPT element and has little or no specificity for the double stranded DNA species .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 In the world of adults a 15-year-old usually has little or no reputation .
14 British political science has little or no literature on political leadership .
15 ‘ She has little or no sense of her own importance , ’ she might say .
16 The Bhutto government has little or no access and influence .
17 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 .
18 Unless the winch or car is very under-powered , pulling up steeper on a fast launch has little or no effect on launching speed .
19 Clearly , the number of males a female mates with has little or no effect on the numbers of her offspring .
20 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 .
21 ‘ Treatment other than by X-rays or surgery to the pituitary gland has little or no effect
22 A more careful look at Fig 1 , reveals that , between the ages of about 15 and 18 years the age at first marriage has little or no effect on the age when the first birth occurs .
23 Considering that the majority of the general public has little or no interest in the game , cricket is extremely well served by the BBC both in terms of the quantity and quality of presentation .
24 The next characteristic of a switching-off organization is that there are far too many people and far too many layers so that each employee feels that he has little or no headroom .
25 So he has little or no time to release the glider , or to recover from the dive unless the upset occurs above about 500 feet , and then only if the rope breaks or the glider releases .
26 On the basis of his own findings Moscovitch argued that in the normal brain the right hemisphere has little or no language .
27 Every member I have spoken to believes it is in all our best interests to maintain the profession 's high standards and to remove from the register any auditor who has little or no regard for them .
28 Each one recognises sectional interests within the profession but has little or no regard to the public at large or the potential client .
29 If he considers that the proposed change has little or no impact on functionality , cost , or timescale , the Change Management Procedures can be bypassed and there is no need for any further action .
30 If the Development Manager considers the change proposed has little or no impact on functionality , cost , or timescale when he should allow the incorporation of the change into the design and ensure that it is described in the design documentation .
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