Example sentences of "[ex0] is little or " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In most opinion reports from the last months of the war , there is little or no mention of the Führer and the attitudes of the population towards him . |
| 3 | There is little or no hint of the compassion and humanity which lay beneath the cool exterior . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He drew up a work schedule dedicated ‘ to providing holes which would be reachable with two good shots , when the ground is soft and there is little or no run , rather than cater as regards length for the summer conditions ’ . |
| 6 | Sadly , despite a lot of research , there is little or no clear cut evidence of an objective kind which can supply an answer to all of these questions . |
| 7 | Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers . |
| 8 | There is no known proof of true hereditary surnames in the period before the Conquest , and although a number of Domesday tenants of English origins have names additional to their first — such as Alnod of Kent , a byname given to a man with land in Oxfordshire — there is little or no evidence to show that these were other than personal to the individuals . |
| 9 | There is little or no formal requirement and few incentives . |
| 10 | There is little or no heating for staff |
| 11 | Thus , for example as Revill has pointed out , in programmed instruction students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with other students , or with the teacher . |
| 12 | But students work as isolated individuals ; there is little or no interaction with the rest of the group or with the lecturer . |
| 13 | When the sections are stained we can see wide , light-coloured bands representing the summer period of growth , and darker lines representing the winter when there is little or no growth . |
| 14 | If there is little or no improvement on the Step 2 diet , then it may be because there is a general yeast sensitivity , due to candidiasis ( see p 184 ) . |
| 15 | But now this much vaunted initiative has foundered because there is little or no market interest in redevelopment . |
| 16 | There is little or no discussion of principle . |
| 17 | If there is little or no local Christian presence , then a team from outside needs to be brought in . |
| 18 | The fact that there is little or no evidence that a gift is operating does not necessarily mean , however , that it is not present . |
| 19 | The authoritarian philosophy , according to the authors , sees the press as something to be controlled because it is a potential nuisance ; there is little or no conception of the press as a possibly positive contributor to human progress and development . |
| 20 | In others there is little or no disagreement . |
| 21 | There is little or no sense of diachrony or process in the work of Barthes or Lévi-Strauss . |
| 22 | Similar problems in isolated characters or words are not so easy to read , because there is little or no surrounding context ( Mitchell , 1982 ) . |
| 23 | An interesting feature of all these ducks ( for which I have no explanation to offer ) is that unlike most species of European ducks there is little or no difference between the sexes . |
| 24 | Although there is little or no evidence to support the contention that those who deviate from shared sexual morality are likely to be ‘ deviant ’ in other ways as well , it was argued in Chapter two that it is precisely this quality that Mrs Whitehouse felt she had detected in young ‘ revolutionaries ’ such as Richard Neville . |
| 25 | Because of this there is little or no possibility that somebody somewhere else will recognize the merits of the actions you are taking , or the opportunity that you have uncovered , and of their own free will line up and help you . |
| 26 | Some succumb to the pressure and claim they have obtained evidence where in fact there is little or none . |
| 27 | Second , there is little or no cooperation with other US museums . |
| 28 | IMB could simply ignore the worries , on the grounds that there is little or no scientific evidence to support the complaints . |
| 29 | To survive , remain active and breed in areas where there is little or no rain and no open water at all , a creature must have both a watertight skin and a watertight egg . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , though it is a reasonable assumption that the biblical writers used sources , there is little or no objective evidence that this is so . |