Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent report from the EOC found that ‘ overall the Youth Training Programme does little or nothing to widen girls ’ horizons or to provide ways out of the low-paid and dead-end jobs which are a feature of many women 's lives in Northern Ireland today ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But electoral blocs had little or nothing to do with divergencies of opinions . |
| 4 | In Uruguay the first journal was called Ferrocarril ( ‘ Railway ’ ) , although its content had little or nothing to do with railways . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But more often than not these decisions are made for reasons which have little or nothing to do with creativity . |
| 7 | In the liberal view the attraction exerted over them by extremist doctrines had little or nothing to do with the social composition of the radicals . |
| 8 | First , it is evident that the broad public interest criteria which are identified in the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , and the existence of the ‘ gateways ’ in the Restrictive Trades Practices Act 1976 , potentially ( and in practice ) permit issues to be considered that either have little or nothing to do with economic efficiency , or are more properly the concern of other areas of policy . |
| 9 | Any full study of ‘ unfair competition ’ would have to take account of the legislation protecting intangible business property like trade marks and patents , and of the statutory controls over restrictive trading agreements and monopolies , which have little or nothing to do with anything resembling the law of tort . |
| 10 | Consensus could not be guaranteed where particular groups had had little or nothing to do with a particular policy . |
| 11 | More often , however , the term was reserved for Delaunay and his disciples , Bruce , Frost , Sonia Delaunay and Alice Bailly , and for painters such as Picabia , Kupka and Duchamp who had all been originally classified as Cubists but whose work was becoming more abstract , although it had little or nothing to do with that of Delaunay . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Their responsibilities often included areas which had little or nothing to do with foreign policy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was an appealing idea because it at least seemed to offer some sort of progression to the work at a time when there was little or nothing written about coherent development in drama . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Much school education has done little or nothing to try to correct these misunderstandings . |
| 19 | All this activity did little or nothing to reduce the level of local taxation . |
| 20 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I do not favour either approach above the other but am using each where I feel it is most illuminating . |
| 26 | ‘ Is n't that where we start ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Is n't that where they found his clothes ? |
| 28 | ‘ Is that where he hangs out , then ? ’ |
| 29 | Is that where it came from ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Is that where you heard the bad words you used just now ? ’ |