Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] little [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry , but I have little sympathy for him . |
| 3 | A work ethos was established that was individualistic , acquisitive and incentive-oriented , but which had little sense of solidarity or mutuality that might supersede this narrowly-conceived achievement ethic . |
| 4 | But she saw little hope in that notion . |
| 5 | But she took little heed of her surroundings ; all her attention was focused on the man himself . |
| 6 | They drank wine , consulted the menu , ordered , but she took little notice of what she was eating , trying to calm the turmoil within her . |
| 7 | One common local belief about Belfast English is that upper-middle-class people tend to front-raise /a/ ( as in bat ) towards the conservative RP value : [ ae ] ( but we found little sign of this in any part of our research ) . |
| 8 | Such an explanation of discontent may perhaps apply to educated middle-class housewives , but we find little evidence of status frustrations among working-class wives . |
| 9 | But we have little understanding of why this should be . |
| 10 | In the 1970s scheme after scheme was launched , but there seemed little sense of direction or coherence . |
| 11 | I was cold , tired and hungry , but there seemed little point in going to bed until the storm had gone through . |
| 12 | But there appears little prospect of this superstar falling victim to such hype . |
| 13 | The talks will resume today but there seems little hope of settlement . |
| 14 | Some authorities have suggested a change in diet for such cats , but there seems little logic in this unless the new diet helps to reduce boredom . |
| 15 | Enya is extraordinarily beautiful , but there seems little point in asking her about love affairs anymore . |
| 16 | Proposals such as these aroused considerable debate in the 1930s ( particularly on the question of whether , for every job vacated by an older worker , a new one would be created for a younger person ) , but they made little headway with the National Government . |
| 17 | Late nineteenth-century judicial reforms did streamline court procedure , but they had little effect on the way in which the administration of law and order was popularly perceived . |
| 18 | For example , Ambrose , Harper and Pemberton 's ( 1983 ) small study of men after divorce found that just over half their sample relied on parents and/or siblings for support , but they give little detail about the type of support offered and it may well have been practical as much as emotional . |
| 19 | The provisions of the Act are complex , but they have little effect on media freedom . |
| 20 | Actives to be sure , serve God with their toil and outward activity , but they spend little time in inner quiet . |
| 21 | The Marquis de Chamlay , his most important military adviser in his later years , had the title of Maréchal-Général des Logis ; but he had little experience of active service and was often employed on non-military tasks . |
| 22 | But he had little confidence of backing from a UK government which seemed to have no idea about the fishing industry . |
| 23 | True , there was Crown prince Tupouto'a waiting in the wings , but he spent little time in Tonga and had a reputation as a playboy — a Farouk-like figure given to white suits and expensive lady friends . |
| 24 | He was obliged to attend some party functions and to receive the chief guests along with the hostess , but he received little pleasure from such occasions and rarely attended them outside London . |
| 25 | In public life , Holford served as Conservative MP for East Gloucestershire from 1854 to 1872 and was a JP , but he took little interest in politics . |
| 26 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 27 | He accepts that law is ‘ relatively autonomous ’ of the economy , but he finds little use for the ‘ base/superstructure metaphor ’ , rejecting what he sees as Althusser 's rigid division of social formations into different ‘ instances ’ or ‘ levels ’ . |
| 28 | They did not like his presence but he found little difficulty in scaring them off , or evading them if they tried to mob him , and the food in these places was plentiful . |
| 29 | But he found little guidance in Scripture as to how a subject or bishop should behave when his sovereign was determined to undo the Reformation . |
| 30 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |