Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] little [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it receives little publicity outside the ICI Group , Chlor-chemicals is one of ICI 's longest standing and most consistently successful businesses . |
| 2 | In the 1950s , the government of Colonel Oscar Osorio ( 1950–6 ) passed a law prohibiting prostitution in El Salvador , although it had little effect beyond filling the prisons for a short time . |
| 3 | The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies . |
| 4 | In it he said that the Scottish financial sector did nothing to help the country 's economy , that it benefited only a selected minority , and that it put little back into Scotland . |
| 5 | His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness . |
| 6 | Such a gene could pay for itself if it motivated little girls to in fact compete with their brothers for what their brothers might otherwise er get uncontested . |
| 7 | Such beauty may make a strong impact , but , if it has little relationship with the inner nature , it is precarious . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 10 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 11 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 12 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 13 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 14 | That prospect may be less depressing than a future dominated by the BJP , but it leaves little room for optimism . |
| 15 | Liberals may appreciate that conclusion , but it has little basis in empirical fact . |
| 16 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 17 | It was described as Italianate , but it bore little relationship to the contemporary light Italianate villas of the United States and of English country houses . |
| 18 | The index to the calendar is useful for those who are working on local and genealogical history , but it provides little help to those who are interested in topics of wider historical significance . |
| 19 | It has become fashionable to say that this kind of equality is unimportant because it offers little protection against tyranny . |
| 20 | The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout . |
| 21 | Because it places little emphasis on sheer physical strength , kung fu is a discipline open to young and old alike . |
| 22 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |