Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By implication , Levitt takes the view that a global market should be viewed as one with particular market segments that may bear little or no relationship to geographical boundaries . |
| 32 | Developing countries , for example , consume many of the same goods as industrialised countries , but may have little or no expenditure on heating , public utilities , medicine , etc . |
| 33 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 34 | Reading a rightwing rather than a left-wing paper improved images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though it had little or no influence on images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 35 | We found that television had a large effect on those political perceptions which had little or no attitudinal content . |
| 36 | Right-wing papers improved their readers ' images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged their readers ' images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though they had little or no influence upon their readers ' images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 37 | Two authorities on this question disagree with each other , the one claiming little or no contact , the other maintaining that some Belorussian intellectuals appealed to the peasant masses throughout the 1920s by proclaiming the Bezburzhuaznost' ( the non-existence of a bourgeoisie ) of the whole nation . |
| 38 | In a report to a plenary meeting of Tsektran in June , he said that trains should stop acting like droshkys , carrying people and goods where they wished for little or no pay . |
| 39 | There was little or no attempt to denationalize the giant state monopolies thereafter . |
| 40 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 41 | Since there was little or no lending to the Government during the year 1967/68 , it follows that that billion and a half of expenditure was financed from one of two sources . |
| 42 | British political science has little or no literature on political leadership . |
| 43 | It argued that of the half million British troops overseas , 200,000 were in areas that did not create a foreign currency liability , and of the rest few were in areas requiring direct dollar expenditure ; ‘ it follows that the contribution to be made to the balance of payments problem by the withdrawal of troops in overseas theatres will be strictly limited , will apply only to those areas when there is at present a currency obligation , and will produce little or no direct dollar saving . ' |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Although the Act ( sec. 25 , 1944 Education Act ) would seem to give parents and pupils the right to practise a religion other than that ( Christianity ) , in general there is little or no provision made in school for any kind of peripatetic Muslim teacher to give lessons in Islam . |
| 46 | • A US Government study reveals that car makers in the US have made little or no gains in fuel economy ratings for 1991 models . |
| 47 | After 25 years of hard use , JA 11 still has little or no creaking nor scuttle shaking on any reasonable surface and it is both light and delightfully precise . |
| 48 | If you do feel hungry , you can eat anything you like — as long as it has little or no fat in it . |
| 49 | It will almost certainly include little or no personal equipment , as there simply is not enough space . |
| 50 | Surgery and manipulation have little or no place in the treatment of most RSIs . |
| 51 | These days BEM systems cost little or no more than conventional controllers so the Exeter Arms ' payback period of two-and-a-half years would be much shorter today . |
| 52 | The intention is to highlight how today we in this country may join through our offerings with those of little or no material wealth in the Third World in the urgent task of making human development possible for even the poorest . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | The Bhutto government has little or no access and influence . |
| 55 | Even though industrial sectors where there was little or no potential for technological innovation were not included in the study , one-quarter of firms had not bought any kind of new technology in the five previous years . |
| 56 | Sir Guy had little or no Publicity ; he wrote books about Cotswold architecture and mixed with the arty-crafty Sapperton Set — the Gimsons , Barnsley and Norman Jewson . |
| 57 | By 1957 , it had become clear that it was easier to direct affairs on the far side of the Arab sea/air barrier from London rather than from Cyprus , which had little or no contact with Aden and Kenya . |
| 58 | ‘ 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 . |
| 59 | As most drift-netting operations are carried out in international waters where little or no international agreements are in force , it is extremely difficult to control this destruction of life on the high seas , or even to get an accurate picture of its magnitude . |
| 60 | A year from now , in all likelihood , the world will look back on a merely disappointing year of little or no growth in Britain and America , of solid progress in Germany and Japan , of catastrophes skirted in the Gulf and the Soviet Union . |