Example sentences of "[pron] give little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I give little coverage to the associated subject of the setting up of the model .
2 Large as they were , the merged firms would still be small in relation to European or world markets , and would face relatively elastic demand curves which gave little scope for raising price above marginal cost .
3 Economists blamed the shortages on prices which gave little incentive to production .
4 It seems that in Japan microlights are restricted to flying no more than 1.5 kilometres from point of take-off which gives little chance of developing mature navigational skills .
5 The US Administration has unveiled plans for new energy legislation which gives little consideration to environmental priorities .
6 In 1925 he published My Reminiscences , a short autobiographical account of his sporting career , which gives little information about his personal life .
7 Her father was kindness itself , but he was the sort of man who gave little credit to anyone who had fallen from grace .
8 For example , among those carers living with a dementia sufferer , there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much , because they went out to work , or because they themselves were frail ; and at the other extreme were people who ‘ did everything ’ for a sufferer , and rarely left the house without him or her .
9 And you were the kind lady who gave little Afgie the leprechaun , ’ she added with a warm smile .
10 She gave little moans of pleasure and Harry felt the quick , fierce response of his body .
11 They give little thought to , what they have to do in a day and how long each task may take .
12 They give little attention not only to how it is understood and experienced but also to the relations between bureaucracies and elected politicians .
13 However , they give little information about the obstetric features of their cases , which might be quite important since matching is essential with such small numbers — for example , were the babies predominantly born during preterm labour or were they delivered electively for some obstetric complication ?
14 Little help for either view may be found in the accounts of the life of Fahreddin Acemi in the early sources , however , for particularly in regard to the critical period after the death of Molla Fenari they give little information .
15 For example , Ambrose , Harper and Pemberton 's ( 1983 ) small study of men after divorce found that just over half their sample relied on parents and/or siblings for support , but they give little detail about the type of support offered and it may well have been practical as much as emotional .
16 He gave little thought to it then , reasoning that she was not in such grave earnest that she would actually attempt to turn her indignant dream into action .
17 He gave little appearance of being unusually happy .
18 Some anthropologists would counter these examples by arguing that there actually are class-like phenomena in such states ( Terray , 1975 ) , by pointing out the difference in access to the means of production between elders and juniors and men and women , but even if this argument is accepted it gives little support to the general theory in that such ‘ class ’ differences also occur in clearly stateless societies .
19 Another way of putting it is that even though the academic community is founded on a culture of critical discourse ( see Chapter 7 ) , normally it gives little thought to the criteria by which its critical judgements come into play .
20 More specifically , it gives little attention to processes other than those related to class ( including ‘ lost ’ class ) experience and the demands of capital accumulation .
21 But when you consider this in the context of its well-weighted precision and speed , it gives little cause for complaint .
22 It gives little guidance as to the individual weightings to be attached to explanatory variables for evaluating between them , or the precise ways in which they interact , and lacks predictive power ( Gill , 1969 ) .
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