Example sentences of "little [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not mix with the crowd at the Rotonde and had little sympathy with the wild scenes of the moderns . |
| 2 | His busyness in seeking profitable office suggests little sympathy for the austere ideals of ‘ Thorough ’ : a privy councillor throughout the decade , he had no scruples in gathering a clutch of reversions for his young sons Thomas and Henry ( later first Earl of St Albans , q.v. ) , which inhibited the king 's freedom of appointment in legal , financial , and administrative offices . |
| 3 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 4 | Sukarno and his associates could expect little sympathy from the returning Allies ; surely then the Dutch would be restored ? |
| 5 | The Local Government Board , which had historically borne most of the responsibility for the treatment of poverty , had played very little part in the new measures of the Liberal government , except on occasion to disrupt them . |
| 6 | ‘ I have little faith in the unsubstantiated assertions of psychologists , ’ Briant said dryly . |
| 7 | The Jacobites used a simple cipher in private correspondence — a reference to Frederick being attached to Patricia , for example , meant that Mar was still loyal to James — but this presented little difficulty to the British code-breakers , as one Jacobite warned another : |
| 8 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
| 9 | Amplitude histograms ( g ) taken from epochs before ( dashed line ; 100 trials ) and after ( solid line ; 80 trials ) the tetanus show an increase in peak separation , but very little change in the relative heights of peaks . |
| 10 | Specialists organised themselves earlier — the American College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians were formed in 1913 and 19l5 respectively , while the Academy of General practice did not appear until 1947 — and , despite the recommendations of the Mills Commission and the Willard Committee in 1963 and 1964 for more broadly trained physicians , there was little response from the medical schools ( Stephen 1979 , p.266 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ We were new to the business when we opened up , and we quickly realised that there was little advantage in the higher discounts from publishers when their long delivery times were taken into account . |
| 12 | Wilson had little fear of the representative bodies in which employers were involved , rightly believing that " a society composed of shipowners and sailors will not work well " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This change appears to have little effect on the remaining coefficients from ( 2.2 ) , confirming the importance of both relative returns and aggregate financial activity in determining the level of foreign portfolio investment in the UK . |
| 15 | There was little spring in the ancient planks and Miss Barnsdale towered beside the box horse , ready to yank at the arms of any child who did n't manage to leap over the rough leather back first time . |
| 16 | Wilson wrote back on 28th November , saying that the Treasury Lords considered that the accommodation laid down in the competition had little relevance to the current proposals . |
| 17 | Popular music has received very little assistance from the various Arts Councils whose job is to disburse monies from the state and local authorities . |
| 18 | As far as cost is concerned , there is little difference between the two sources , since the cost of postage is offset by the extra cost of the container plants from a garden centre . |
| 19 | There are four old Blues in each crew , while Cambridge , with their most talented material in recent years , have six post-graduates , including their cox , to Oxford 's four , though there is little difference in the average ages . |
| 20 | There is little difference in the custodial rates for the two offences or in the length of sentences . ’ |
| 21 | There was little difference in the respective proportions of subjects with non-progressive disorders ( 10% v 9% ; NS ) ( table IV ) . |
| 22 | To put it crudely , the global capitalist system has very little need of the subordinate classes in this sphere . |
| 23 | The Kuwait intervention , though important to the Defence policy-makers , was of little consequence to the political departments , whose mandarins were immersed during the first half of 1961 in two major debates : how to handle the Anglo-American special relationship after Kennedy had taken over as US President in January ; and whether or not to put less emphasis on Anglo-American and Commonwealth links by applying belatedly to join the EEC . |
| 24 | However , with various groups suggesting police complicity in township violence , many blacks will find little security in a larger police force . |
| 25 | Blumler also suggested that parliamentary television was markedly bipartisan , paying relatively little attention to the Liberal Democrats and Members of other smaller parties , but analysis of the actuality contributions of various participants shows that they received more than their proportionate strength in the House ; Liberal Democrats were given 4.3% of total actuality contributions and took part on 7.8% of contribution occasions . |
| 26 | Many feminists also saw the struggle for the vote in moral terms , but while they were prepared to use maternalist arguments in support of their campaign , they paid little attention to the individual needs of mothers . |
| 27 | Gorbachev 's early speeches gave relatively little attention to the longer-term objectives he had in mind for Soviet society . |
| 28 | The planners put most effort into acquiring micro-environmental information ( competitive : industries , companies , products and services , markets ) , with relatively little attention to the macro-environmental influences ( economic/financial , political , social/ cultural , technological ) . |
| 29 | Throughout Portuguese Timor the church was still preaching the faith , and although priests were questioned there was little brutality in the early days of this occupation . |
| 30 | There is little contact between the two districts . |