Example sentences of "had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the third quarter Bridgend had little difficulty in wiping out an 11-point deficit , Huw Bevan supporting Aled Williams 's break for their second try . |
| 2 | Last night Lendl had little difficulty in defeating John McEnroe 6-4 , 6-4 at the conclusion of the round robin phase . |
| 3 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 4 | He stood by his convictions and had little difficulty in keeping public confidence . |
| 5 | Most critics had little difficulty in associating the faults of the movies with aspects of the American personality . |
| 6 | From the start , feminists had little difficulty uncovering the sexist assumptions lying at the roots of most of the established trees of knowledge . |
| 7 | Those aware of his unpopularity and unilateralism had little difficulty in comprehending the motives of his assassins . |
| 8 | The former had little difficulty in removing Harold Evans from the editorship of The Times despite the elaborate system of guarantees that surrounded the editor 's post . |
| 9 | Durkheim had little difficulty in employing this material to demonstrate how beliefs in the mystical powers of animals and other ‘ totemic ’ forces reflected the structure of Aboriginal hordes and their component divisions . |
| 10 | Billmaier indicated SunSoft had little difficulty with six of the eight points , non-controversial items such as support of open systems , industry standards interoperability and maintaining ABI compatibility between Solaris and Destiny . |
| 11 | Formerly , large enterprises usually had little difficulty in getting their requirements met , whilst small users struggled to get their often very specific needs fulfilled . |
| 12 | They had little difficulty in finding abundant evidence for this hypothesis . |
| 13 | Sir Patrick Hastings , who was briefed for the defence of Mosley and the others , had little difficulty in demolishing the prosecution case . |
| 14 | Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it . |
| 15 | At the end of the last Ice Age , some eleven thousand years ago , glaciers stretched across the middle of Europe and African birds had little difficulty in visiting their southern edges where , during the summer , there were rich flushes of insects and other foods but only a small resident population cropping them . |
| 16 | In some areas , such as vision , what happens to the food they eat , explanations of day and night , shadows and plant growth , many children had well-established views which they had little difficulty in expressing . |
| 17 | He had little difficulty in persuading Mrs Pargeter to run into Mondano with him and cash some traveller 's cheques . |
| 18 | They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men . |
| 19 | And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets . |
| 20 | His voice sounded so matter-of-fact that she had little difficulty in ignoring the more flattering words . |
| 21 | She was reasonably attractive , and outgoing , and normally she had little difficulty in establishing cordial relationships in both her working and social life . |
| 22 | On 30 November Edmund died , Cnut had little difficulty persuading the English to ignore the claims of his relatives , and the country was re-united under his rule . |
| 23 | Although the farmer expected his wife to cope , in many cases she had little preparation for the job . |
| 24 | She 'd done some TV before , but she 'd just left school , and had little knowledge of the working world and MEN . |
| 25 | Our visitor had little knowledge of the passions or indeed the psychology of small boys , for he casually admitted after a day or two that he had inscribed the Master 's name on the bat himself ! |
| 26 | He had little knowledge of Hurricanes and none of air fighting . |
| 27 | No matter that I had little knowledge of regional variety . |
| 28 | Because it was the first purpose-built circuit , the designer had little knowledge of such matter and based his design on that of a horse race track . |
| 29 | More than 75 million Soviet citizens lived outside their ‘ own ’ republic ( Kazakhstan alone contained more than 100 different nationalities ) , and very often they had little knowledge of the language of the republican majority . |
| 30 | The two women questioned had little knowledge and no inclination to learn about nablabs . |