Example sentences of "with [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catholic nationalists could be and were arrested with little suspicion , detained , frequently beaten , and all with little or no possibility of redress . |
| 2 | This is standard practice in more tropical countries where there are ‘ dust devils ’ or ‘ willy willies ’ which can produce a 40-knot wind in almost any direction with little or no warning . |
| 3 | For the more expensive models , a downpayment is required at the start of the scheme , but it is still possible to obtain a car with little or no downpayment with the hire charges being met entirely by the mobility allowance . |
| 4 | The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes . |
| 5 | Older people are more likely to experience the circumstances that cause ‘ fuel poverty ’ — low income ; poor quality housing with little or no insulation ; and reliance on expensive and inefficient heating systems . |
| 6 | Pied Piper and Merrymaker outings , locally organised specials , and a profusion of enthusiast-orientated railtours were run with little or no coordination between the regions , with the result that there was remarkable disparity in standards and even the level of fares . |
| 7 | These last jetés would be completely out of place in Lander 's Etudes where a strong ‘ flick ’ outwards of the leading foot propels the dancer straight forwards through the air with little or no time to pause in arabesque on landing because the continuous repetition of this strong movement is intended to cover as much ground in as little time as possible . |
| 8 | Because it is the manufacturers who make the standards , with little or no input from the users or consumers . |
| 9 | The Duchess of Kent attends a Thanksgiving Service to mark the 150th Anniversary of the foundation of the West of England School for Children with Little or No Sight in Exeter Cathedral . |
| 10 | The Duchess of Kent this morning attended a Thanksgiving Service in Exeter Cathedral to mark the 150th Anniversary of the foundation of the West of England School for Children with Little or No Sight , and later opened St David 's House . |
| 11 | Healey always seems a man at the receiving end , full of great ideas but with little or no room for manoeuvre . |
| 12 | Such management has been recruited from a combination of civil servants with little or no commercial experience , individuals with limited commercial experience in , for instance , the co-operative movement , individuals with experience in foreign-owned enterprises but at a low level , or even ex-politicians . |
| 13 | A tribal chieftain , Haji Ghulam , argues that with little or no government development , and rising unemployment , it is the right of tribals to grow opium and process it . |
| 14 | ‘ Crew members are tearing dolphins out of the net and dumping them on the deck with little or no attention to whether they are alive or dead . |
| 15 | The perennial question for television executives is : how on earth does one make arts programmes interesting to an audience with little or no enthusiasm for the arts ? |
| 16 | Bruce , defending the expansion of university extra-mural work since the war , saw the future role of the WEA primarily as a student-body rather than as one with a teaching responsibility , ‘ an organisation of all adult students ’ with little or no emphasis on the working-class element : ‘ in the general interest , it would seem best … for the WEA to concentrate its attention upon the stimulation and organisation of demand … all but the most elementary pioneer work could become the responsibility of Extra-Mural Departments or local authorities ’ with the WEA left as ‘ the mouthpiece of lively , conscious student demand ’ . |
| 17 | Cumbria and North Wales , both grass areas with little or no cropping , preferred the autumn when the winter feed was already secured and there was no harvest to worry about . |
| 18 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 19 | We also follow specially prepared bike routes , with little or no traffic . |
| 20 | Mozart wrote several symphonies during the Italian visits , some displaying Italian influences such as first movements with little or no development sections , or linked first and second movements . |
| 21 | Appearance , texture and smell : Unadjusted a detergent would be a thin , translucent , colourless liquid with little or no smell or a white powder generally unattractive . |
| 22 | Despite their sharing the title ‘ detergent ’ with their manual counterparts they are completely different products with little or no similarities in formulation . |
| 23 | Referee Ron Challis watched helpless as the players pushed the ball around with little or no challenge to the man in possession . ’ |
| 24 | No matter how you feed your horse , somebody else ( usually a self confessed expert with little or no qualifications ) has always got a better way . |
| 25 | If you are able to balance straights yourself or have asked a nutritionist to do it for you all well and good , but for the horse owner with little or no experience in feeding , compound feeds are the answer . |
| 26 | We should be prepared to countenance the possibility that there will be children who leave school with little or no literary knowledge ; but there should be no children who leave without competence in their own native tongue . |
| 27 | If going to bed , eating and hairwashing always happen in the same way , she accepts them with little or no fuss . |
| 28 | Many of the deliberations of the LDDC have been taken with little or no public scrutiny . |
| 29 | In the other schools the head or the senior management team still decided on how to divide up the money with little or no consultation . |
| 30 | He also pleaded interference with his duty to those by whom he was employed in a private practice of considerable extent , but his time at the College had been clearly specified — two hours for consultation by subscribers with sick horses on three days a week , with little or no call upon him for attendance at uncertain hours . ’ |