Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seven surviving Ryder Cup men in the field — four missed the cut — appear to have little chance of a confidence-boosting victory . |
| 2 | Thus the arguments for easier maintenance and greater longevity of plastic windows appear to have little foundation in fact — an argument often ignored by the brewers . |
| 3 | Many criminal actions appear to offer little threat to the capitalist class system . |
| 4 | Although institutions of higher education to some extent reshaped their admissions procedures before and after the Further & Higher Education Act 1992 , they still appear to pay little attention to the effect which their policies have on schools and colleges . |
| 5 | Many bilingual students lack appropriate study skills and appear to take little responsibility for their own learning . |
| 6 | To the non Bridge player , discussions or articles about Bridge appear to make little sense . |
| 7 | For the Government in general and the Employment Secretary in particular seem to have little idea about the problems of working women . |
| 8 | " Too many ill-presented , ill-written and extremely long-winded scripts are seen from candidates who seem to have little idea even of the basics of sentence construction . " |
| 9 | Others in the same country seem to have little notion of what is happening ( e.g. Bajracharya ( 1981 ) from eastern Nepal ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I seem to have little choice as far as you 're concerned . ’ |
| 11 | Some visually handicapped pupils have good central vision and seem to have little difficulty in reading , but poor peripheral vision can give them problems in managing their environment . |
| 12 | Children seem to have little difficulty accepting this convention because it is so like the action replays they will frequently have seen on television . |
| 13 | At ward level , managerial changes often seem to have little impact or significance on clinical practice , and experience suggests many nurses are unaware of or uninterested in the implications of such reforms . |
| 14 | In some cases , trade associations seem to have little sanction over rogue members . |
| 15 | Application of ether or certain vital dyes to the ulcers both have their adherents but seem to have little effect on the natural course of the disease . |
| 16 | Study of Mackmurdo 's character reveals a strong vein of the mountebank and many of his claims seem to have little basis in fact . |
| 17 | Areas such as the chalklands and the Jurassic limestones seem to show little evidence of soil degradation , while the field monuments indicate that they were densely settled . |
| 18 | The Americans continue to have little interest in British acts apart from Right Said Fred — Vanessa Williams is number one in the States with Save the Best for Last — but our old mates the Aussies ca n't get enough of our lads . |