Example sentences of "[noun prp] had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With entire responsibility for teaching and discipline , Hill had little time for original work ; but his edition ( 1816 ) of Artis Logicae Compendium by Henry Aldrich [ q.v. ] proved an acceptable university textbook , reaching a sixth edition in 1850 . |
| 2 | There was nothing wrong in that , except that Eleanor had little idea about the conditions awaiting her on the construction site in Alaska . |
| 3 | Clements had little interest in evolution . |
| 4 | Clearly Mrs Downes had little idea what she 'd thought . |
| 5 | Durkheim had little difficulty in employing this material to demonstrate how beliefs in the mystical powers of animals and other ‘ totemic ’ forces reflected the structure of Aboriginal hordes and their component divisions . |
| 6 | In the third quarter Bridgend had little difficulty in wiping out an 11-point deficit , Huw Bevan supporting Aled Williams 's break for their second try . |
| 7 | One analyst of these matters has noted that ‘ Stalin had little reason to expect that control of Communist countries would differ markedly from control of Communist parties . ’ |
| 8 | Madame Weill had little choice . |
| 9 | Last night Lendl had little difficulty in defeating John McEnroe 6-4 , 6-4 at the conclusion of the round robin phase . |
| 10 | Once informed of this , Ershad had little option but to announce his forthcoming resignation , which he did late on Dec. 4 , saying that he would resign as soon as the opposition had nominated an interim president who would replace him and supervise elections . |
| 11 | Simon had little reason to be grateful or even appreciative of Jesus because he did not have a sense of wrong . |
| 12 | The protest in Tianjin was perhaps yet another indication of things to come over two years later when respect for the Party had declined still further and Deng Xiaoping had little support left among young intellectuals . |
| 13 | Wilson had little choice but to take legal action to recover his union 's funds and property from both Southampton and Glasgow , though without success . |
| 14 | For Tom Mann , who became the ITF 's first president , the organisation came to have an additional aim with which Wilson had little sympathy — that of advancing the cause of international socialism . |
| 15 | Wilson had little fear of the representative bodies in which employers were involved , rightly believing that " a society composed of shipowners and sailors will not work well " . |
| 16 | The rabbits in front went fast and Hazel had little time to sniff about as he followed . |
| 17 | Coleridge had little sympathy with their overheated prose , and his own response to this charged and mysterious place probably had more in common with that of a later visitor , Samuel Palmer , who in the nineteenth century saw Culbone through visionary eyes . |
| 18 | Bacon had little interest in English neo-romanticism and Minton would have been unable to accept Bacon 's nihilism , his insistence that man is a futile being who has to play out the game dependent not on reason but chance . |
| 19 | Proving the effects of stress and who 's to blame can be difficult , though Mike Gerson had little problem in Mr Grainger 's case . |
| 20 | Kate was quite unable to offer any more resistance , in fact was so busy mentally castigating herself for the happy daydreams she had had while dancing with Ace that Dara had little need of her determination to take control of the rest of the evening . |
| 21 | For the present Posidonius had little choice : he had to rely on his illustrious friend Pompey . |
| 22 | In fact , and at least at present , Ludens had little reason to complain since he remained , with Marcus , the closest person , not exactly the beloved disciple , but the most valuable agent . |
| 23 | Marsh had little interest in geological changes or in evolution . |
| 24 | Perhaps there was another route he would choose — after meeting the scribe again , Huy had little doubt who the rich client at the City of Dreams had been , and knew why his profile , fleetingly glimpsed , had seemed familiar . |
| 25 | Failing to find support from within the Danzig party or from Berlin , Rauschning had little option but to resign from both his post as Senate President and from membership of the Party . |
| 26 | Fisher had little answer to the experience and ring craft of the 25 year old from Drimnagh . |
| 27 | Fisher had little answer to the good left jabs of the Olympic gold medallist as Fisher , a knockout specialist , tried hard to find the one big punch which never came . |
| 28 | They might , conceivably , even speed up his demise by informing upon him , for the CIA had little use for a failed agent whose cover was blown . |
| 29 | Forcing a litigant to settle with a judge who had usurped jurisdiction , in order to avoid still higher costs in a superior court , was not likely to have enhanced the popularity of the regality court of Glasgow , and , quite apart from the fact that he was himself injured by Sproull 's actions , Montrose had little choice but to remove the bailie-depute at the first opportunity . |
| 30 | They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men . |