Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last night 's storm has done little to clear the atmosphere , ’ Mr Carson said . |
| 2 | In the Camelford case , the muddled official response has done little to engender confidence in the abilities of the DoE , DHSS or their local networks to deal effectively with any similar incident in future . |
| 3 | If capitalist industrialisation has done little to improve the position of women , is there any evidence to suggest that they have fared better with alternative paths of development ? |
| 4 | In the five years since this judgment , Parliament has shown little interest , although the Labour Party has endorsed a proposal that those in the distribution business should be under a legal obligation to supply any publication requested by their customers — a reform which would require abolition of the rule that distributors can be held responsible for particular defamations of which they have no knowledge but which are nonetheless contained in libel-prone publications . |
| 5 | They say the introduction of the new national curriculum has made little or no difference . |
| 6 | If the decision was only as to the construction of a statutory provision that would explain why the case has received little attention in later cases … |
| 7 | Yet ironically , Kahn has received little recognition outside narrow architectural circles while many of his pupils have had considerable popular success . |
| 8 | On active citizenship Labour has had little to say , although Labour spokespersons haves given support to the general idea of civic responsibility and the encouragement of a sense of community , which can be traced back to the nineteenth century traditions of civic virtue and community solidarity which are strong in the Labour party . |
| 9 | The Bank of England ( 1990 ) argues that the venture capital industry has done little to reduce the funding gap and indeed that it may be getting larger . |
| 10 | Moreover , it is far from clear that the LDDC has managed to obtain anything like the best financial deals in its negotiations with developers : land appears to have been sold at substantially less than might have been achieved , and as the freeholder the LDDC has retained little control of , nor gained any benefit from , subsequent development . |
| 11 | However , the decline in profitability since then , when concentration has changed little and output has grown strongly , contradicts any suggestions of low competitiveness . |
| 12 | The insidious growth of the wages gap between agriculture and industry , which the AWB has done little to narrow , leads to the consideration once more of alternative means of raising wages on the land . |
| 13 | If a cohort of patients with diabetes shows poor control this study has found little evidence that it should be attributed to factors specific to non-diabetic patients . |
| 14 | In comparison to speech , automatic handwriting recognition has received little attention . |
| 15 | While protectionism as a transnational political force appears to have little likelihood of success in the forseeable future , the threat of it is ever present as a reminder that the orderly progress of global trade in the interests of the TNCs has to be maintained and those who transgress will be punished . |
| 16 | So for those who argue that the rave scene has produced little else but badly dressed pre-pubescents , look no further than Nicolette . |
| 17 | Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway . |
| 18 | Andrew Lees , campaigns director of Friends of the Earth UK , warned : " The North has done little to signal , let alone address , the issue of over-consumption . |
| 19 | One other feature of Richards 's work has had little impact in this country , but a much greater impact , as we shall see , in the United States : the demand that criticism be founded on theory . |
| 20 | In practice , the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act has caused little difficulty for freedom of expression . |
| 21 | First , the Act has made little progress in terms of reversing the trend in the United States towards earlier retirement . |
| 22 | Their provision has , in any case , varied considerably between different parts of the country , and , because of the precise way in which it has been implemented , the Act has done little to increase the opportunities for rural recreation among the more deprived sections of the urban population . |
| 23 | Certainly the MoD thinking on this issue has had little effect in delaying delivery of the four frigates . |
| 24 | Even by the modest standards of the Supreme Court , American obscenity law has had little measurable effect since 1973 . |
| 25 | It is not surprising , then , that this particular set of objections to the implementation of the Delors Plan has received little attention even in the countries likely to be most affected . |
| 26 | If this seems too severe , there is no denying that the development of the industrial co-operative sector has had little reason over the years to feel grateful to the Consumer Movement . |
| 27 | The added documentation which bureaux might need to comply with such a requirement in this country could be costly , and the requirement seems to carry little practical value : if a credit granter suddenly gets information relating to an inquiry made some months earlier , which is almost certainly no longer active , it wo n't do the consumer any good . |
| 28 | Even accepting that executive directors are now required to give their full-time attention to company affairs , the law appears to have little role to play in ensuring that the board engage in proper long-term planning or respond vigorously to changes in the business environment . |
| 29 | Within the industry , the war has made little difference to most people 's expectations : the reduction , they say , is going to happen . |
| 30 | It appears that the Gulf War has had little effect on exports to this area , although it should be added that much of the conflict post dated the period covered by the survey . |