Example sentences of "no [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet there is no denying that ‘ ethnic ’ identities which had no political or even existential significance until yesterday ( for instance being a ‘ Lombard ’ , which is now the title of the xenophobic leagues in north Italy ) can acquire a genuine hold as badges of group identity overnight . |
| 2 | In fact , this represents the precise opposite of the MSC position — the majority of employers think that young workers are either no different or better ! |
| 3 | Because of these attitudes , there were no established or informally close relationships between officers of the District and the WEA branch . |
| 4 | These had been drawn without any reference to , or sometimes even without the knowledge of , their inhabitants and therefore had no national or even protonational significance for their populations ; except for colonial-educated and westernised native minorities of varying but generally exiguous size . |
| 5 | Your employer has no legal or even moral obligation to house you , although they may advise you on what is available locally in the public and private sector . |
| 6 | One way of doing this is to point out the less organized character of a movement , in which there may be no regular or easily identifiable membership ( no ‘ party card ’ or dues ) , and little in the way of a central office or staff . |
| 7 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 8 | According to Lindsay Neil , manager of the authority 's HIV , Aids and sexual health programme : ‘ Members of these communities are no more or less at risk of HIV infection than others . ’ |
| 9 | Indeed the end of the Lay Folks ' Catechism says no more or less , essentially , than they do : |
| 10 | There were no warmer or more enthusiastic supporters than the BDDA in the reconstitution of the Institute , and there has always been harmonious co-operation between the two . |
| 11 | Thirdly , there is no necessary or even likely reason why subsidizing capital with below-cost land , premises or advice should create more jobs or lead to local regeneration . |
| 12 | Intangible economic benefits : A large proportion of CMEA imports may have no suitable or readily equivalent Western substitute : the CMEA product mix is geared to the requirements of Soviet industry which , as we have noted in Chapter 2 , may differ from those in the West ; and Western equipment may require complementary products or particular production methods which can be introduced into the Soviet environment only at some effort and expense . |
| 13 | It is not intended to imply that there are no significant or even causal relations between institutional and formational relationships ; indeed , as we shall see , these will often and perhaps always be present . |