Example sentences of "[verb] little for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His flashy marketing campaigns have done little for the success of Midland 's new products . |
| 2 | Until recently he believed that ‘ the magnificent State of Britain' had done little for the Science upon which her wealth , power and very existence depended ; except to provide security and freedom in a country its citizens could be proud of , and this had indeed been enough . |
| 3 | If a flagrant oversight like this could occur it says little for the prospects of men of lowly status being correctly recorded . |
| 4 | But 3p off a litre of petrol will do little for the men at Ford who need their jobs . |
| 5 | That will do little for the Vance-Owen plan 's chances of success and little , therefore , for the vigour of the principles of international conduct . |
| 6 | The Single European Act , fully in force from 1992 , will be a bonus for business but will do little for the rest of us . |
| 7 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 8 | This remarkable volte face did little for the president 's public reputation , was the cause of much scathing comment in the media and , not surprisingly , a poll revealed that 86 per cent of Americans , ‘ had no confidence in the ability of the President to manage the economy ’ . |
| 9 | On a hot day the engine-out rate of climb did little for the blood pressure . |
| 10 | His ministry did little for the more difficult problem of the ‘ residuum ’ . |
| 11 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 12 | As everyone was by then in a state of complete exhaustion they did little for the next two or three days except sleep . |
| 13 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 14 | Your mag promotes and encourages all this ; reading an analysis of Joe Satriani 's playing , for example , probably does little for the confidence of most readers ( I myself found it quite stretching at first ! ) . |
| 15 | And to hide the microphone under a table or behind a curtain , while guaranteeing the naturalness of the content , does little for the acoustic quality — and of course raises an issue that President Nixon memorably pioneered . |
| 16 | It does little for the already low standing of politicians in the public esteem for Major to say effectively that they did not have plans to raise taxes then and they only did it because it was necessary . |