Example sentences of "[adj] or [pron] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 All this activity did little or nothing to reduce the level of local taxation .
2 By early 1973 it was clear that they would do little or nothing to protect the exchange rate from the impact of domestic policies , and indeed increasingly resented the attempts of European and Japanese central banks to prevent the dollar rate from finding its own level .
3 Either that or we write a couple of variations on the end of this and we say the general access conforms to this but in their case , the other one is pre-booked , the extras and they have a booking schedule .
4 It 's either that or you 'd no job , and
5 Where a behavioural response has , in the past , been followed by environmental events which are pleasurable or which reduce the degree of discomfort experienced , then the same behaviour will be likely to occur in the future .
6 No farmer can therefore afford to carry workers who are disgruntled or who have no identification with the aims of the enterprise .
7 Animals , like humans , were either endogamous or exogamous , they preferred the familiar or they preferred the novel .
8 ‘ I do n't think anyone let it in , I 'd guess the door was open or it had a key . ’
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