Example sentences of "[vb past] have little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His account of the ‘ shattered , dirty , inconvenient , miserable hovels ’ that he entered has little relation to the picturesque idyll . |
| 2 | He 'd had little luck with the embassy . |
| 3 | Her sister would blame Claudia for tracking her down ; she would n't believe she 'd had little choice in the matter . |
| 4 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 5 | As Barwise and Ehrenberg ( 1988 ) argue , people came to have little involvement in their TV . |
| 6 | While media seemed to have little influence on driving behaviour , both groups of drivers felt that it showed cars in an unrealistic light — only seven percent thought otherwise . |
| 7 | This was an important mission , yet they had sent him a minor police official who seemed to have little standing or influence . |
| 8 | Amber , however , seemed to have little consideration for Lucien or what was considered sacred . |
| 9 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 10 | ‘ These young jet lads seemed to have little respect even for their parents . |
| 11 | His mother , preoccupied with paying the bills , seemed to have little time and energy for her children — particularly Graham who , as the only boy , was a bitter reminder of her husband . |
| 12 | The phenomenal rise in venereal diseases and the performance of abortions ‘ for social reasons ’ were two of the unintended consequences of sexual hedonism which nevertheless seemed to have little effect on sexual behaviour . |
| 13 | When in the 1880s , anxiety about the question grew more acute , and when exhortation to society members not to instruct " female learners " or to allow their daughters to take up the trade seemed to have little effect , more organized attempts were made to confront the problem . |
| 14 | Equally , the degree of unionisation of the workforce seemed to have little impact on the personnel practices of manufacturing establishments in their use either of fixed-term contract workers or agency workers . |
| 15 | A salt watchman was paid a salary of £15 per annum , while a tidesman was paid £20 , so on the face of it Main seemed to have little cause for complaint . |
| 16 | This picked up language used in earlier Hague Conventions ; given the establishment of the Central Authority system , this provision seemed to have little point , as the Rapporteur himself admitted . |
| 17 | Ireland had crashed to a 145-90 defeat at the hands of the English losing out on all six rinks , and looked to have little chance when they took on the Scots , who had beaten defending champions Wales 130-100 in their opener . |
| 18 | And er they felt had little prestige and that the French peop The French Canadian speakers had little prestige in their own language . |
| 19 | The two women questioned had little knowledge and no inclination to learn about nablabs . |
| 20 | A minor clergyman from the province of Tver " appeared to have little chance of influencing the government , but Belliustin was in touch with Mikhail Pogodin , the longstanding apologist for Nicholas I who had discovered a capacity for criticizing the regime in the course of the Crimean War . |
| 21 | In view of the high incidence of these arrangements in Leeds , and their adoption and dissemination during a period when the massive resourcing of PNP appeared to have little impact on reading test scores , it might be worth carefully pondering HMI 's finding , referred to towards the end of the previous chapter , that |
| 22 | Repeated calls for restraint had been made by the ANC and Inkatha local and national leaderships , urging observance of the Jan. 29 joint peace appeal [ see pp. 37951-52 ] , but such appeals appeared to have little effect . |
| 23 | Britain appeared to have little interest in the area , Russia was preoccupied with her domestic problems , and in any case the Tsar had never forgiven Austria for her lack of support during the Crimean War . |
| 24 | appeared to have little interest in the sort of discussion groups generally seen as furthering mutual support and understanding … |
| 25 | So far Kine had had little success persuading the BBC 's higher management to take his Department more seriously , so when Doctor Who came along he saw a golden opportunity . |
| 26 | The bill also dissolved , from December 1992 , the High Commission for the Fight against the Mafia ( which since the early 1980s had had little success ) in order to make way for the new Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate ( DIA ) . |
| 27 | It had been less than two days since he had met the Doctor , and he had had little rest . |
| 28 | He had had little sleep from the commencement of the strike and was dog-tired . |
| 29 | She had travelled overnight from Germany , by boat and train , and had had little sleep . |
| 30 | He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out . |