Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But does this apparent wide-scale support for examinations disguise another motive , that has little or nothing to do with either the practicality or desirability of examining children 's work in these subjects ? |
| 32 | A description of 1678 is so close to the kind of situation which Mayhew would give of London in the mid-nineteenth century , that it must be taken as applying just as much to the eighteenth : a poor woman that goes three days a week to wash or scoure abroad , or one that is employed in nurse-keeping three or four months in a year , or a poor market-woman who attends three or four mornings in a week with her basket , and all the rest of the time these folks have little or nothing to do . |
| 33 | Their responsibilities often included areas which had little or nothing to do with foreign policy . |
| 34 | You will find , too , that much of the invented music which is wrapped around the perceived nakedness of those song-melodies uses textures and harmonic colours that have little or nothing to do with real medieval polyphony . |
| 35 | Just as the young Federman arrives in America and will embark on a new series of experiences , so Double Or Nothing speculates about the possible shapes it might take . |
| 36 | The form of the autumn statement makes that debate more difficult , and in 13 years the Government have done little or nothing to improve it . |
| 37 | those , those read it thought yes , this is , this is , I 've got nothing to object to , nothing to er to write and complain about , or nothing to take issue with , so anyway I , I find that encouraging . |
| 38 | Double Or Nothing mimes out its own liminal qualities , exemplifying Federman 's general assertion that , since reading completes a text , ‘ writing can be considered as a PRE-TEXT … |
| 39 | There 's a gap in the wall , and it goes right onto the platform — there ai n't no fence or nothing stopping me getting out . |
| 40 | A rather closer look at the diary of military events easily conveys the impression of times of intense activity , followed by periods when little or nothing seemed to occur . |
| 41 | Following the first leg little or nothing separates the two teams . |
| 42 | There are millions of people who admit to being members of the two Christian churches and their various sects , but who do little or nothing to give substance to that admission . |
| 43 | Such a dating , however , runs contrary to the other accounts of Molla Fenari 's trip to Egypt and has little or nothing to support it . |
| 44 | There was nothing he had to do to earn it , or nothing to threaten his security , except a too-rapid recovery , which he daily prayed against and which a good God would surely not allow — at least until summer came in and clothed a scarred earth with kindliness . |
| 45 | Much school education has done little or nothing to try to correct these misunderstandings . |
| 46 | All this activity did little or nothing to reduce the level of local taxation . |
| 47 | By its very nature , the organic content in a fertile soil constitutes a reservoir , a bank balance that will stand withdrawals for some time with little or nothing going in , which explains why fertility can often be maintained for a while by replacing lost nutrients with straight chemicals . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | It is possible that those who work in education , even at senior management level , lack the confidence to press for this sort of recognition ; a diffidence which has its origin in the perceived ‘ otherness ’ referred to above , combined with the erroneous view that education has little or nothing to offer a commercial board-room . |
| 50 | Despite its general popularity amongst teachers in schools where the Solihull booklet had been used , the evidence from the survey is that little or nothing changed in consequence . |
| 51 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 52 | But even for those who had little or nothing to hide , their sensitivity to the research led , in a minority of cases , to a reluctance to engage in conversation , the resort to silence being something which Westley noted in his research in the United States ( 1970 , p. viii ) . |
| 53 | Little or nothing escapes his eye and that makes any book he writes doubly valuable to the serious students of railway history . |
| 54 | For him nothing is , or nothing exists , except Truth , and where Truth is there also is true knowledge , ( cit ) , and where true knowledge is , there also is bliss , ( ānanda ) . |
| 55 | It did little or nothing to remove de facto segregation in certain institutions , and apparently made no impact on imbalances in the distribution of wealth in South Africa . |
| 56 | Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers . |
| 57 | Well fuck when I come back up he near had the fucking front door broke trying to get it open so that they 'd come in the front and I see the kitchen door 's closed and I just walked in and I said well John the dishes or nothing 's done if you wan na go and have a look because he would n't do them . |
| 58 | No , there 's no planning or nothing 's diarized . |
| 59 | CsA has the sequence c- ( ) , where Me indicates N -methylation and MeBmt is ( 4R ) -4-[ ( E ) -2-butenyl ] -4 , N- dimethylthreonine . |
| 60 | It was easy to sink into a sort of limbo , where nothing seemed any longer to be as important as it had been . |