Example sentences of "[adv] had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This apparently had little impact on the extent of these intra- and extra-mural zones , though it may have encouraged the enhanced development of the central area in the third and fourth centuries . |
| 2 | The regime perhaps had little choice but to win support by making grants of land which might otherwise have gone to augment royal resources , and Mortimer and Isabella rapidly ran through the very substantial treasure inherited from Edward II . |
| 3 | ‘ T was regrettable , of course , though you obviously had little choice but to abandon modesty when the need was so imperative . |
| 4 | All that mattered to these people was to kill ; how they did so had little significance . |
| 5 | The poorer women especially had little choice but to follow their husbands and sweethearts into battle . |
| 6 | The council thus had little choice but to accept Gloucester 's claim to be protector . |
| 7 | The council thus had little choice but to accept Gloucester 's claim to be protector . |
| 8 | She thus had little use for cinema which gave great weight to symbolism , and unfavourably contrasted symbolist poetry to the work of poets like Ezra Pound whose world operated , not through meaning , but through the ‘ direct impact of words ’ . |
| 9 | Money and intelligence pretty soon had little connection . |
| 10 | He genuinely had little concern with making money for its own sake , but he could not fail to be infected by Marjorie 's martyred attitude to their shortage of cash , and he resented being reminded of it by Kegan 's sleekness . |
| 11 | Jacobitism became attractive to a variety of different groups in the 1690s , including commonwealth Whigs , although at this time it still had little support in society at large . |
| 12 | Formerly , large enterprises usually had little difficulty in getting their requirements met , whilst small users struggled to get their often very specific needs fulfilled . |
| 13 | Despite his many languages , he also had little sense of cultures other than his own . |
| 14 | The task of household budgeting was an extremely difficult one and evoked harsh words from husbands if it was mismanaged , even though most husbands probably had little notion of how to manage on the sums they gave their wives . |
| 15 | He probably had little understanding of the intensity of feeling about their rights and dignity which the communal life of the ancient monasteries engendered , and which Anselm shared . |
| 16 | For more than 40 years , since the passage of the 1944 Education Act , central government had no formal role in determining the curriculum of schools ; it probably had little role in practice for several years before . |
| 17 | But disenchantment set in because the outdated Merlin ( used for the Avro Tudor and Canadair Four ) clearly had little future , and the more rewarding prospect of a senior job on the new Dart engine ( destined for the Vickers Viscount ) kept being thwarted by delays to the project . |
| 18 | Dr Neil wanted to tell her to be careful , that she really had little idea of how hard and cruel the world was outside the privileged fastness in which she had previously lived , but he contented himself with saying instead , ‘ Have a good time , McAllister . |
| 19 | Apart from predictable duties , like that of sitting through a performance of The Family Reunion ( a play for which he now had little affection ) , he was asked to crown the Swedish snow queen at the winter festival : he told Robert Giroux that he had hoped this might be combined with the Nobel ceremony itself , so that he could wear ice-skates with his tails . |
| 20 | Returning towards the island he saw five Ju88s heading out to sea and although he now had little ammunition left , attacked and thought that he had managed to damage one . |
| 21 | The Nazis now had little need of the Volkstag , and it met only rarely . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , they often had little experience in civil administration and although the system may have seemed effective in suppressing Lombard leadership , ultimately it acted against Frederick 's interests due to its inherent inefficiency and unpopularity . |
| 23 | Supreme Court judges often had little experience in Sri Lanka , and were unfamiliar with local customs and culture . |
| 24 | Authorities often had little idea how inspectors were spending their time , the commission reports . |
| 25 | Military and naval attachés usually regarded their appointments merely as interludes in their service careers and often had little sympathy with the outlook and preoccupations of professional diplomats . |
| 26 | Dr Jean Robertson , a GP for 26 years , originally had little time for the notion of psychic healing until an experience at the funeral of her nineteen year-old daughter , who died of cancer four years ago . |
| 27 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 28 | Mrs Allen initially had little understanding of the importance of diet in wound healing . |
| 29 | She behaved as though she was rather bored with this one , as though she knew him very well and yet had little use for the knowledge . |
| 30 | Ivy-covered or not , universities had once protected themselves as if by walls from the outside gaze ; effortlessly so , on the whole , since for centuries the world beyond had little curiosity about them , they cost the taxpayer nothing , and their inmates were proverbially remote and ineffectual . |