Example sentences of "have [det] [conj] no " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people most affected by them — office workers and passers-by — have little or no influence on their design , and are dependent on the benevolence of the developer and on planning laws . |
| 2 | Surgery and manipulation have little or no place in the treatment of most RSIs . |
| 3 | Many varieties , especially those bred from China roses , have little or no scent , whereas others are renowned for their fragrance . |
| 4 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 5 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 6 | Apart from Perrot , whose Giselle has survived , we have little or no idea what these choreographers were like . |
| 7 | Some of the machair lochs have little or no sediment because of intensive wind fetch and wave erosion . |
| 8 | Cellars are notorious for damp , and for wet and dry rot , because often they have little or no ventilation . |
| 9 | Many , probably most , submitted schemes have little or no conservation implications but the attitude of the Committee to agricultural development schemes may be a factor explaining why extremely few schemes have been objected to by the NPA . |
| 10 | The ladinos teach mostly in Spanish and have little or no grasp of the languages or culture of their pupils . |
| 11 | For instance , some events will persist briefly , have immediate consequences , minor transgenerational effects and have little or no potential for non-human mortality ( an air crash is an example ) . |
| 12 | Counter-trade is used by countries that suffer from acute foreign currency shortages and have little or no credit facilities to finance normal trade flows . |
| 13 | At this point , where we have little or no capacity left to discriminate , we become almost unable to feel anything , whether good or bad . |
| 14 | The type of orientation described above is often given when students have little or no motivation actually to use the library . |
| 15 | Although very often his actions have little or no practical effect , they certainly succeed in raising public support . |
| 16 | Such transmitted signals have little or no effect on lights , motors and electrical equipment but they arc easily detected by an electronic circuit . |
| 17 | There are even strange cases where primary syllabus panels have little or no direct link with examiners and where conflict exists between what the syllabus recommends and what the examinations examine . |
| 18 | Unlike the indigenous tribes , they often have little or no agricultural know-how and simply slash and burn the forest as they go . |
| 19 | Loss of the loved one can raise the same intensity of emotion : a sense of betrayal , hatred of the betrayer , extreme jealousy of a rival-feelings over which a person may believe they have little or no control . |
| 20 | This attitude is understandable , and slimming experts who drearily continue to tell us to ‘ be satisfied just to lose weight slowly : half a pound a week is enough ’ have little or no understanding of human psychology . |
| 21 | Cutaways are a great help when you are trying to build a sequence of events over which you have little or no control . |
| 22 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 23 | However , most of the time we have little or no idea what action results from articles in the Journal , or whether members would prefer other ways of getting involved . |
| 24 | For far too long now the motor retail business has been viewed as a male dominated world where women have little or no place . |
| 25 | Ironically , the recreational users and providers invariably argue that their pursuits have little or no environmental impact , and yet they are reluctant to share or publicise ‘ their sites ’ and resources — why ? |
| 26 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 27 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 28 | Parents use a variety of techniques , from reasoning and explaining to threatening and slapping , when a child is having a tantrum , all of which have little or no effect . |
| 29 | Women are especially vulnerable to HIV in societies where they have little or no control over their sex lives . |
| 30 | Nevertheless it is necessary to use some specialised terminology in order to define pupils who have little or no sight , so that their needs can be realistically exposed and appropriately met . |