Example sentences of "[noun pl] that have little " in BNC.

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1 The labour movement has made hardly any use of its own scholars and intellectuals , and gives them little support , so that many drift through higher education into roles that have little relationship with their origins and aspirations .
2 In the eyes of some observers , Rio Tinto has become a force in Cornish mining for reasons that have little to do with the profitability of the mines .
3 Although all mineral working activities come under the control of the Town and Country Planning Acts , certain operations , including most mineral prospecting activities that have little effect on the environment , do not require specific planning permission .
4 While the colonies looked to Englishmen like a widely diverse collection of territories with widely differing religious and economic foundations that had little in common , the other colonizing powers of Europe probably noticed their similarities rather than their differences .
5 Finally , certain other elements that have little to do with housing per se , such as proper levelling of site and drainage , are very important for mud settlements .
6 However , there are some cloudy phrases that have little or no value .
7 Students have their courses to follow , courses which are often set in disciplinary frameworks that have little or nothing , on the surface , to do with society .
8 Nevertheless it does show considerable misjudgement to make films that had little to do with popular taste at a time when it was so difficult for British filmmakers to find an audience .
9 You will find , too , that much of the invented music which is wrapped around the perceived nakedness of those song-melodies uses textures and harmonic colours that have little or nothing to do with real medieval polyphony .
10 The same sense is induced in white collar workers such as book-keepers , who are manipulating symbols that have little connection with tangible realities .
11 Rather than contemplate the real world , Mr Pick prefers to bustle off in pursuit of symbols that have little to do with war itself , like the Channel tunnel , or the Nazi Holocaust , or time-and-motion studies in industry .
12 Some of these changes will be related to neural processes that have little psychological relevance .
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