Example sentences of "be [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be little or no hope of finding those particular items , but there are many others to be collected , some as yet unrecorded . |
| 2 | However , in practice , if your claim is successful we would expect to recover all or most of your legal costs in addition to the compensation and so there would be little or no shortfall . |
| 3 | There may , however , be little or no change in the practices followed by individual schools . |
| 4 | They are free to rotate and the brakes work , so if for any reason a wheels-up arrival is made there should be little or no damage to the airframe . |
| 5 | Finally , below a few hundred feet , if no definite field has been chosen there can be little or no choice , and an accident is almost certain to happen . |
| 6 | But , as ambient water temperature falls , they will need food that is easily digestible so that , should a sudden cold snap occur , there will be little or no waste matter to decay in their gut . |
| 7 | But there can be little or no dispute about the appalling state of agriculture as a result of forced collectivisation and the fact that millions of farm animals were slaughtered by the peasants rather than allow them to be collectivised , nor can the starvation and deaths be disputed . |
| 8 | Hence , there may be little or no incentive for a low paid worker to strive for a higher income , whether by gaining promotion or by working overtime , if the welfare benefits previously received disappear rapidly as income rises . |
| 9 | Regarding the question of pole pieces , there should be little or no difference in performance between pickups ( of identical specification ) fitted with Allen head screws , compared to those fitted with slot head screws . |
| 10 | It was also assumed that if people had more of their gross income to spend as they chose then they would purchase goods and services that they wanted rather than the state spending money on goods and services for which there may be little or no demand . |
| 11 | If the manager had no commitment , there would be little or no training aspect . |
| 12 | In the grouped update areas there will be little or no effect , as the hit rate is already high . |
| 13 | Instead of having all these different mortgage companies , Abbey National and that , the government have er , have er , a whatsname to do it , they 're would n't be half and a quarter . |
| 14 | In some circumstances , the course of the trial will be such that a witness whose affidavit has been received will after all be required to attend for cross-examination ; this applies no less to witnesses abroad as to those within the jurisdiction . |
| 15 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 16 | The object must be such that the subject 's senses are acute enough to pick it out . |
| 17 | This will wire the windings in series , but there phasing will be such that the output of one winding will cancel out the output from the other . |
| 18 | The structure of courses should be such that the majority would require a form of integrated study such as that described in the Grouped Course Scheme within existing TEC policy . |
| 19 | It will then be the responsibility of the Department of Social Security to take out a maintainance order against the father , although the form of the order should be such that the order continues to operate when the mother leaves welfare . |
| 20 | Second , the circumstances of the illegal venture must be such that the court can not determine the standard of care to be observed . |
| 21 | In some research and development contracts the degree of technical uncertainty may be such that the requirement can not reasonably be specified in terms of an end result . |
| 22 | The phasor potential difference across the capacitance C lags 90° behind the phasor potential difference VR across the resistance R , assuming negligible loading of the output taken between terminals P and O , while All of these aspects are maintained in the phasor diagram of figure 8.12(b) and its geometry is seen to be such that the point P moves over a circle , centre O , as the resistance R is varied . |
| 23 | There are areas of the knitting where only the main bed is knitting , so the yarn and tension need to be such that the fabric has sufficient body . |
| 24 | In a similar way the layout of the type and the distribution of print and space should be such that the reader reads easily but is not made aware of the amount of ‘ leading ’ ( the white between the lines of type ) or the spacing of the words . |
| 25 | A job franchise in the haulage industry would typically be such that the franchise would invest in a lorry and anticipate an income closely allied to driving hours undertaken . |
| 26 | If not the damages will be such that the plaintiff can make reasonable recompense to the relative or friend for " the proper and reasonable " cost of their services . |
| 27 | For a tax to be regarded as progressive , its rate structure must be such that the tax takes a rising proportion of total income as income increases ; a proportional tax takes a constant proportion , whilst a regressive tax takes a declining proportion . |
| 28 | In ( e ) the current variation during one period of the source may be such that the path on the oscilloscope screen ( the ‘ phase space trajectory ’ ) may lie anywhere within a certain region . |
| 29 | How effective the ‘ make do and mend ’ changes which it now seems will be all that the USTA will be able to carry out , prove to be , must be a matter of serious doubt . |
| 30 | In any other times , it can be less than a week . |