Example sentences of "[verb] made little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The international forum established after the Rhodes Summit in December 1988 has made little headway on the issue of border controls , and the police are critical of the British government 's delay in making its own position clear . |
| 2 | Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway . |
| 3 | Those familiar with philosophical writing on causation , or touching on causation , will have noticed that our analysis so far of it has taken the terms necessary connection " , " nomic connection " , and " lawlike connection " as synonymous , but has made little reference to laws . |
| 4 | First , the Act has made little progress in terms of reversing the trend in the United States towards earlier retirement . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , there are areas where France 's research policy has made little progress . |
| 6 | The Chancellor has preserved his flexibility to adjust duties between different categories of drinks , but has made little use of that flexibility in the face of overwhelming evidence that market conditions have changed fundamentally in favour of wines . |
| 7 | A final line of analysis insists that the government has made little difference , particularly on unemployment . |
| 8 | Within the industry , the war has made little difference to most people 's expectations : the reduction , they say , is going to happen . |
| 9 | The addition of nutrients has made little difference to the rate of succession at sites in Sheffield . |
| 10 | The recent heavy rain has made little difference because many of our rivers rely on ground water . |
| 11 | There are some twenty-two indigenous Indian languages spoken in these communities , and the government has made little effort to support education in these mother tongues . |
| 12 | Although Mercury has made little impact in local telephone services , it has begun to make an impact on BT 's operations in long-distance and overseas links . |
| 13 | The recent fashion for dubiously coherent theoretical approaches has made little impact , beyond occasional outbursts of rant and cant which no one takes seriously . |
| 14 | Although it impressed both Cicero ( 106–43 BC ) and Virgil ( 70–19 BC ; ) , the Epicureanism on which it was based made little impression on the Romans , except for its hedonistic aspect . |
| 15 | She considered this encouraged regular habits and represented a kindness to her tenants , but the policy could have made little sense to the working class woman managing on a tight and often irregular housekeeping allowance . |
| 16 | Inclusion of any of these studies would have made little difference to our conclusions about mortality reduction . |
| 17 | Quite possibly , it would have made little difference . |
| 18 | If he allowed them to know he understood German , it would have made little difference . |
| 19 | The day before , Norway had declined Germany 's offer of a non-aggression pact , which no doubt weakened her position some months later , though even had she signed one , it would probably have made little difference . |
| 20 | It would have made little difference , however . |
| 21 | However , this failure appears to have made little difference to the fortunes of the Labour Party . |
| 22 | The recent introduction of comprehensive schools appears to have made little difference to the kind of schooling that children from different socio-economic backgrounds receive . |
| 23 | The authorities appear to have made little effort to identify the perpetrators of any of these attacks . |
| 24 | Edward III , however , seems to have made little effort to safeguard these rights . |
| 25 | Thus the British government acquired a powder-mill of its own in 1759 , though it seems to have made little use of it , and another in 1787 . |
| 26 | Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business . |
| 27 | reasons why I 've made little use of it . |
| 28 | Under the privatisation proposal it was offering almost £14million for the rest of PPFE , which had made little progress since the Hong Kong flotation . |
| 29 | By 1907 ITF activity was regarded by the shipowners as sufficiently serious to justify the setting up of an International Shipping Federation " to combat the growing forces of socialism and aggressive trade unionism " , but in reality it had made little progress in establishing international standards and the British market for seamen was still being substantially undercut by lower rates of pay of foreign labour . |
| 30 | A Constitution Drafting Committee , which had been established soon after the formation of the LPDR in late 1975 [ see pp. 27541-43 ] , had made little progress during the LPDR 's first decade . |