Example sentences of "[vb past] little [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked very different to a nautical chart and made little sense to me , but I gradually deciphered some of the meaning from its weird markings . |
| 2 | Most of the conversation at meal times made little sense to her . |
| 3 | The Doctor 's conversation made little sense to Blake . |
| 4 | County cricket made little concession to spectators . |
| 5 | At the same time Fastolf s attitude to the practicalities of war reflect a hardheadedness which was essentially of this world : the plan which he drew up in 1435 favouring a ‘ tough ’ approach to the war made little concession to romantic ideas of chivalry which would influence a knight 's conduct in war . |
| 6 | InterCity 's dedicated Victoria-Gatwick Express push-pull service launched in 1984 made little difference to domestic services , employing ex-LMR Mark 2f coaches formed into trailer sets with a 1959-type 2-HAP driving trailer converted to a driving van at one end , and a Class 73 locomotive at the other . |
| 7 | For illiterate and landless serfs and peasants the language of their landlord made little difference to their lives . |
| 8 | WOBBLER : Bruce Grobbelaar 's return made little difference to Liverpool 's leaking defence . |
| 9 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 10 | Table 4.2 , which illustrates this , also shows that the state of the local labour market made little difference to the proportion regarding their first jobs as " stop-gap " . |
| 11 | Adjustment for risk factors made little difference to the rates except when the subset of deaths due to immaturity was adjusted for birth weight . |
| 12 | Adjustment for risk factors made little difference to the mortality rates except when birth weight was included in the adjustment for the deaths due to immaturity . |
| 13 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 14 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 15 | Strategically , the Guadalajara débâcle made little difference to either side . |
| 16 | Strocchi et al did not enumerate viable sulphate reducing bacteria in their study , and the addition of 20 mM sulphate to non-methanogenic faecal slurries made little difference to sulphide production , indicating an absence of viable sulphate reducers . |
| 17 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 18 | A purely defensive strategy made little appeal to Pitt and he now eagerly supported a plan devised by Anson to carry the war into enemy waters . |
| 19 | He added that , ‘ Widespread electoral support bore little resemblance to restricted party membership , however , and disappointments were common . |
| 20 | It was , of course , absolutely correct to assert that the government of the United States bore little resemblance to the army . |
| 21 | Within three overs Gooch had his century , his first against Pakistan , 17th in all , ninth in his 27 Tests as England captain , and for once he bore little resemblance to lonely General Gordon , whose last stand is immortalised by George Joy in Leeds Art Gallery . |
| 22 | By contrast , the Saigon club scene , shot in the Fort Benning Officer 's Club , bore little resemblance to reality . |
| 23 | Although Peru in 1990 probably bore little resemblance to the place described circa 1948 in our tomes , we were immediately obsessed with an area sloping down to the Amazon Basin to the east of the Andes . |
| 24 | His recognition that the catch-phrases , myths and sectarian politics of the 1928–32 period bore little resemblance to the real world heightened his metaphysical angst , but in no sense diminished his commitment to the communist cause . |
| 25 | The practitioners of different disciplines within the life sciences exploited the general idea of evolution in different ways , some of which bore little resemblance to Darwin 's own approach . |
| 26 | He bore little resemblance to the photograph in the newspaper , with wide hamster-like cheeks and a narrow chin masked by his spade beard . |
| 27 | The very adventurous course of its politics at that time bore little resemblance to the mortal struggle in religious terms of the period of Antiochus IV . |
| 28 | This notion of breaking a repertoire of language behaviour into a progressive series , moving from simple to complex stages , bore little resemblance to traditional theories of learning since it did not include rote-memorisation as an essential element . |
| 29 | ‘ No , you may not , ’ she said with a calmness that bore little resemblance to the chaos inside her . |
| 30 | Indeed the Irish performance bore little resemblance to the confident efforts of acknowledged Sevens experts and defending champions Fiji , who ran all over and around Malaysia to win the opening game 49–0 , or Australia , who started by scoring 47 points while conceding a lone try to Singapore . |