Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ By that remark , I take it you mean that I know little or nothing about industrial or trade matters ? ’ |
| 3 | But electoral blocs had little or nothing to do with divergencies of opinions . |
| 4 | The general world outside knew little or nothing of them . |
| 5 | Although these techniques developed by Sibbald et al ( 25 ) using a computer programme to determine the optimum allocation of land to agriculture and forestry make it possible to reach a more objective decision about the allocation of land to agriculture or forestry in an integrated scheme we , as yet , know little or nothing about the impact of agriculture or forest development on rural communities . |
| 6 | There is little or nothing on the coloration of other everyday materials , such as leather and paper , nor is there any mention of non-substrate uses , such as in dye lasers or photovoltaic cells . |
| 7 | In Uruguay the first journal was called Ferrocarril ( ‘ Railway ’ ) , although its content had little or nothing to do with railways . |
| 8 | On the other hand , Chain and Florey were armed with apparatus which means little or nothing to the layman . |
| 9 | It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences . |
| 10 | Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers . |
| 11 | In such cases the animal is living in its past , a past about which the new owner knows little or nothing . |
| 12 | Africa , South America and Australia appear to have contributed little or nothing to the pedigree cat world . |
| 13 | In Malta the Navy knew little or nothing about what was happening — probably because of radio silence in the British Fleet . |
| 14 | This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state . |
| 15 | All of his previous protagonists are shaped by conflicting forces with which they , supposedly , have little or nothing in common . |
| 16 | The minster at Beddingham seems to have lasted from 750 to 880 , but we know little or nothing of it , save its Abbot Plegheard named in a charter of 825 . |
| 17 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 18 | Women on our courses who have both a boy and girl are now finding daughters rebelling and asking why they have to do everything when their brother does little or nothing . |
| 19 | It has been starved of funds , and leading politicians with the power to do something about it have done little or nothing , apparently content as long as the radio reported what they wanted it to report . |
| 20 | I had eaten little or nothing most of the day . |
| 21 | We are also aware that for the majority of women , a visit to a car showroom or Service Department can be a difficult and sometimes downright unpleasant experience due to indifferent attitudes by some Sales/Service staff who are under the misguided impression that because you are female you know little or nothing about the motor car . |
| 22 | ‘ When a woman 's lover says little or nothing between the sheets , she will feel unloved , ’ says Barbara DeAngelis in her book How To Make Love All The Time . |
| 23 | The snag in all this thinking was that most of the people involved knew little or nothing about producing mass-market newspapers . |
| 24 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
| 25 | The day was marred only slightly by the presence of a few of that fraternity who find out about all such events , spend the whole day taking photographs and video and contribute very little or nothing back into the hobby . |
| 26 | There may be subtleties of interaction below the soil surface of which we know little or nothing . |
| 27 | The Muslims will have little or nothing . |
| 28 | Reforms for the Church were proposed , but on the eve of the Reformation , Lateran V ( 1512–17 ) , under the presidency of the popes , achieved little or nothing . |
| 29 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 30 | Third , the author has generally seen little or nothing of the actual restoration work , yet , once it is finished , presumes to assess it with unshakeable authority . |