Example sentences of "make [adj] or no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Preston still referred to it privately as the God slot , as he had indicated to Kate it made little or no reference to the Almighty . |
| 2 | Pointing , at best , some sixty degrees off the wind , and drifting downwind at an alarming rate , we made little or no progress during the next three days . |
| 3 | This made little or no sense to them . |
| 4 | When her food arrived , she appeared to eat without appetite , made little or no response to any attempts at conversation and left the table without taking dessert or coffee . |
| 5 | The middle school which both her older boys attended was a long walk from her home and made little or no attempt to involve parents . |
| 6 | In a Financial Times poll of senior businessmen , 70% said the budget made little or no difference to their companies or their view of government policy . |
| 7 | In the 1960s and 1970s a substantial body of evidence emerged which claimed that schools made little or no difference to pupils ' outcomes . |
| 8 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 9 | In the first place the number of States that work diligently on their accident investigation responsibilities is regrettably rather small , and although their delegates may approach a divisional meeting with the same view of the agenda items their ideas can be , and all too frequently are , frustrated by States which make little or no contribution in this field of activity . |
| 10 | You will have noted from the Brintons extract on page 106 that some English texts make little or no use of conjunctions . |
| 11 | If this is a universal understanding of the grief process , how does the church assist the bereaved in the first stage of their loss , bearing in mind that many people who make little or no claim to Christian faith still look to the church to provide a fitting funeral rite ? |
| 12 | After ten years in a department working , for example , on housing , the fact that one man 's undergraduate degree was in philosophy and another 's in sociology will make little or no difference ; what will matter is the capacity and experience they have developed at the task . |
| 13 | If sulphur dioxide is giving rise to the principal health threat during a smog , then banning the use of petrol-powered vehicles ( which principally emit hydrocarbons , oxides of nitrogen and carbon monoxide as well as contributing to the formation of ozone ) will make little or no difference to sulphur dioxide levels compared with banning diesel-engine vehicles which do emit some sulphur dioxide . |
| 14 | Mr Rayner also attacked Cleveland County Council 's plans for a light rail transit system and said Middlesbrough Borough Council had made little or no provision for cyclists . |
| 15 | There are young autistic adults living independent lives and usefully employed , and others who have made little or no contact with the world they have entered . |
| 16 | The schools where staff had made little or no input into financial decisions were both experiencing cutbacks equivalent to a cut of 5 per cent to 10 per cent of teaching staff . |
| 17 | They say the introduction of the new national curriculum has made little or no difference . |
| 18 | Few heads had allocated any of their extra capitation to the development of productive links with parents and the community , while nearly all of them considered that such PNP resources as the Authority 's advisory and support staff , the INSET programme and even the refurbishment of their own schools had made little or no impact on home-school links , however effective they may have been in furthering the programme 's other objectives . |
| 19 | Charming she thought , feeling acutely humiliated , especially as it drove home the fact that she 'd made little or no impact upon this man . |
| 20 | However , almost exclusively , early systems have made little or no attempt to use any such knowledge beyond that of the word level ( e.g. Earnest [ 1962 ] , Eden [ 1964 ] , Sayre [ 1973 ] , Tappert [ 1984 ] ) . |
| 21 | It makes little or no difference to bed-wetting and denying the drink will seem like a punishment . |