Example sentences of "[vb base] little [conj] no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You will have noted from the Brintons extract on page 106 that some English texts make little or no use of conjunctions . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Fishermen of tropical seas who regularly catch sea snakes display little or no fear of them , handling them with impunity and either killing them or throwing them back in the water . |
| 5 | In a substantial proportion of cases dischargers normally display little or no objection to the standards imposed by the agency , as a result of preparatory work in negotiations conducted by the field officer together with , in more important cases , his area supervisor . |
| 6 | There is overwhelming evidence from the PEP survey to show that local concentrations of the racial minority groups are associated with poor housing , poor jobs and low incomes , and among Asians with large and often extended families with a high ratio of dependants to wage earners and consisting of people who speak little or no English . |
| 7 | People who speak little or no English may not understand the need for speed , and it may take time to get the information translated . |
| 8 | Anderson initially gives his academic status — " I am the J. S. Mill Professor of Ethics at the University of Cambridge " — invoking both his personal position and the prestige of his academic establishment , but the pomposity of such a reversal of the modesty maxim is absurd when his interlocutors speak little or no English . |
| 9 | THE BRITISH wives of American servicemen stationed in the United Kingdom must pay the poll tax even though they receive little or no benefit from public services , the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday . |
| 10 | A report produced jointly by the British Medical Association and the Health Visitors Association in 1989 warned that bed and breakfast accommodation constituted a serious risk to health , and many homeless families receive little or no health care . |
| 11 | Indeed , those employers that undertake training programmes stand the risk of having their workers with their newly acquired skills being poached by employers who undertake little or no training . |
| 12 | Those who undertake little or no training would pay the highest levy . |
| 13 | Conversely if the samples stored at the higher temperatures show little or no change , it may be possible to reduce the frequency of , or even omit , certain of the scheduled examinations at lower temperatures . |
| 14 | In addition , some polygynous species , like Burchell 's zebra ( Equus burchelli ) , show little or no size dimorphism while others , like the spotted hyena ( Crocuta crocuta ) and the Weddell seal ( Leptonychotes weddelli ) , even show reversed dimorphism ( Klingel , 1972 ; Kruuk , 1972 ; Stirling , 1969 ) . |
| 15 | Increased regulation to protect the interests of consumers was also made ( politically ) necessary by the privatization of state-owned monopolies such as the gas , electricity and water industries which , even after privatization , face little or no competition . |
| 16 | Those who read little or no SF associated relatively fewer items with SF . |
| 17 | Given that some exhibitions such as the recent ‘ Art of Death ’ attract little or no sponsorship , profits from crowd-pullers like the Japan show last year ( which attracted 180,000 visitors and made money ) are needed to be ploughed back into the funds . |
| 18 | Add little or no salt or sugar to food . |
| 19 | These sites , in their simplest form , betray little or no development away from the main frontages and there appears to have been no obvious urban focus within the plan . |
| 20 | The majority of illiterates , especially women in rural areas , know little or no Portuguese . |
| 21 | Well , with a membership of 32,000 and an unemployment level of 70% it follows that there are many members who get little or no work within the profession . |
| 22 | They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area — quite deliberately . |
| 23 | The child 's developing cognitive capacities mean that events which at one age produce little or no anxiety may , at another , be extremely distressing . |
| 24 | Residents in both kinds of estate are by and large socially self-sufficient and feel little or no necessity to create close relations with their Shetlander neighbours . |
| 25 | Most colleges it seems contained people made unhappy by sexual harassment , who find little or no support from the people charged to provide that support . |
| 26 | An intense field of humming guitars and amplified noise , Kill Laura 's songs similarly bear little or no resemblance to the rest of contemporary music , which is fine by me . |
| 27 | Although there are procedures for putting ‘ interrogatories ’ to another party at the pre-trial stage , they are little used in practice and bear little or no resemblance to the United States practice of ‘ oral depositions ’ before trial . |
| 28 | Eve Bendall ( 1976 ) in ‘ Teaching for reality ’ states that ‘ … the major part of written answers to nursing questions bear little or no relationship to the nursing performance of the writer in 80% of trainees ’ , and she goes on to say ‘ … we are producing trained nursing staff who are ( through no fault of their own ) woefully lacking in many of the skills they need . ’ |
| 29 | This latter fund simply collects together all the appropriations of expenditure made by Parliament and is financed broadly by taxation and borrowing in proportions which bear little or no relationship to the underlying ‘ capital ’ and ‘ revenue ’ spending . |
| 30 | This seems to support the view that link verbs play little or no role in pushing the communication forward and therefore have no rhematic status . |