Example sentences of "[coord] had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I managed to get in hundreds of leaflets , through a few loyal workers in the Department , but these were either destroyed or had little effect ; or more likely , were not adequately distributed out of fear . |
| 2 | He was always loyal and when we had a house maid who adored Basil and had little affection for his sisters and she used to stand up for him as hardly done by , he would have none of it , to my remembered satisfaction . |
| 3 | He was meticulous in his use of words and had little patience with careless speech or syntax . |
| 4 | He did not mix with the crowd at the Rotonde and had little sympathy with the wild scenes of the moderns . |
| 5 | He stood by his convictions and had little difficulty in keeping public confidence . |
| 6 | She 'd done some TV before , but she 'd just left school , and had little knowledge of the working world and MEN . |
| 7 | UNTIL RECENTLY , each of the great religions of the world developed independently and had little contact with one another . |
| 8 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 9 | Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top . |
| 10 | It was property-led , market- and business-related , aimed at small firms and had little emphasis on employment . |
| 11 | The CC C P Par army was a quarter the size of the K M T and had little money and no tanks , therefore it needed mobilization of the peasants in the villages , they needed the peasants to volunteer to join the P L A and to protect their own property so they thought that this would be an incentive for them . |
| 12 | Both saw English literature as the expression of a nation , and had little truck with foreign theorising . |
| 13 | Churchill wanted action of a dramatic kind and had little use for MI6 . |
| 14 | Lisa had a good degree from some northern university and had little trouble finding herself a job in a proper publishing house — 'Biding my time , ’ she said laughing . |
| 15 | They were also staffed largely by doctors and had little input from other professional members of the team . |
| 16 | He hated Tories in general and had little respect for most of the Tory leadership , although some he did respect , primarily Harold Macmillan . |
| 17 | They had their dignity to consider and Mr Tait , the factor , did n't know any better , and had little dignity , but Liam should have sung . |
| 18 | She was only too well aware of the fragility of the undertaking , and had little confidence in his making it . |
| 19 | There was often a feeling , however , that the CORA legal advisers were scarcely on top of the material under discussion and had little energy for the battle . |
| 20 | However in these years the total area of land devoted to such cash Crops by smallholders was minuscule in relation to the total area in production , and had little impact on the bush/fallow system as it had been traditionally practised . |
| 21 | The radicals , such as Harold Macmillan in the Conservative party , the Independent Labour Party group and maverick individuals like Mosley and Ernest Bevin in the Labour movement , were effectively isolated and had little impact on policy . |
| 22 | He hated cases that required painstaking enquiries over months and months and had little prospect of solution . |
| 23 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |
| 24 | The risk , with such a broad approach , is that one might end up making generalisations that were too broad and had little power to predict with any accuracy the intonation that a speaker would use in a particular context . |
| 25 | Widows ' and orphans ' pensions were not greeted with enthusiasm outside women 's organizations , who supported them but had little influence . |
| 26 | The current was starting to tip the canoe over and I began to panic as the boat was filling up rapidly and I tried my best to bail it out with my hands but had little success . |
| 27 | Culley felt the anger , but had little idea what he might do about it . |
| 28 | A university steeped in classical , historical , and literary traditions was not unfriendly to science but had little awareness of the growing cost of high level scientific research , and even , perhaps , in some quarters reservations about its importance . |
| 29 | A Tokyo conference in November 1943 of leaders from nominally independent Southeast Asian countries was supposed to strengthen solidarity and cooperation , but had little impact either in Japan or in Southeast Asia itself . |
| 30 | An accomplished pianist , she also had great histrionic gifts , but had little time to pursue these interests in later years . |