Example sentences of "[conj] make little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strategically that made little sense , for the Wilds were almost empty , yet it was as if the City 's architect had known that this vast , jagged hole — this primitive wilderness at the heart of its hive-like orderliness — would one day prove its weakest point . |
| 2 | As a consequence , the question of where to eat was one that made little impression on her . |
| 3 | There are some waters that lie in valleys where the wind has little if any influence on the water , apart from a scurrying ripple that makes little difference to the temperature layers , dissolved oxygen , or food distribution . |
| 4 | She held it on her finger and sang to it and made little kissing noises with her lips that he tried to imitate . |
| 5 | In England the codes of the Anglo-Saxon kings , although they covered only a fraction of the area covered by custom , and although they contained numerous traditional items , involved some new legislation and made little pretence of not doing so . |
| 6 | It looked very different to a nautical chart and made little sense to me , but I gradually deciphered some of the meaning from its weird markings . |
| 7 | The former Bournemouth player squandered three first-half chances and made little impact after the interval . |
| 8 | Like other wild creatures , he moved with the seasons in search of food and made little impression on the countryside . |
| 9 | It is too concerned with fact and makes little reference to the question . |
| 10 | He sought collaboration from various colleagues , including Marjory Stephenson ( see Chapter 8 ) in the nearby Department of Biochemistry , but made little progress before his departure from Cambridge to fill successively the chairs of pathology at Sheffield in 1932 and Oxford in 1935 . |
| 11 | Members of Iraqi opposition groups in exile met in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , at end-February , but made little progress in overcoming their differences regarding the future of Iraq or plans to topple the regime of President Saddam Hussein . |
| 12 | He had always been pleased when she had called on him in London but made little effort to visit her in Carshalton . |
| 13 | Between 1900 and the late 1970s … we are asked to strike comparisons between such different styles of law enforcement as to make little sense . |