Example sentences of "[vb -s] to have [verb] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this failure appears to have made little difference to the fortunes of the Labour Party . |
| 2 | Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business . |
| 3 | The recent introduction of comprehensive schools appears to have made little difference to the kind of schooling that children from different socio-economic backgrounds receive . |
| 4 | He was detained in Newgate prison in Dublin in 1797 , but he appears to have taken little part in the 1798 rebellion and was not among the state prisoners incarcerated after its suppression . |
| 5 | It does look , after all , as if respectability posed the greatest of all threats to the survival of Nonconformity ; the son and grandson of Baptist believers as he was , cousin to a family of ardent devotees of the Worship Street Chapel , William Charles appears to have paid little more than passing lip-service to the cause . |
| 6 | The humanities , on the other hand , regard a concern with moral issues as central to their meaning ; philosophers , historians , literary critics , consistently make explicit their interest in morality-while the study of philosophy , history or English appears to have had little impact on the lives of the mass of people . |
| 7 | However , it is significant that modern physics appears to have had little impact on their philosophy of physics ; they still construct it as a subject which is capable of revealing absolute truths . |
| 8 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 9 | Yet , publicly at least , the whole enterprise seems to have caused little excitement . |
| 10 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 11 | Edward III , however , seems to have made little effort to safeguard these rights . |
| 12 | Thus the British government acquired a powder-mill of its own in 1759 , though it seems to have made little use of it , and another in 1787 . |
| 13 | Fortunately for the Government , this short debate in the House of Lords seems to have attracted little attention from the press , and it continued to receive general approbation for the exhibition , with the relevance of the competition remaining largely unquestioned . |
| 14 | Skerne is mentioned in the Domesday Book as a small village and seems to have changed little ever since ! |
| 15 | WPC Dick 's salutary essay ( 1985 ) changed little and generated few ripples on the ACPO pond , while one of the most powerfully critical books on policing in recent years ( Jones 1980 ) seems to have had little effect on the structures of the organization , except , perhaps , to help draw its author — then a chief inspector — into the ACPO ranks . |
| 16 | ‘ Your brother seems to have had little use for credit cards . ’ |
| 17 | Strangely , Shepherd seems to have shown little interest in the effects of the electric media ; indeed , his account of the present-day situation assumes an even tighter grip by the ‘ industrial world sense ’ , the system created by literacy and print being generalized as a ‘ symbolic-technological filter ’ which regulates the processes of communication vital to socialisation and the creation of consciousness ’ ( Shepherd 1982 : 149–50 ) . |
| 18 | There is , then , no reason to believe Freemantle when she claims to have had little interest in poetry . |
| 19 | As , chairman of Dundas & wilson who claims to have had little problem in providing other specialist services to clients , small and large , the exercise becomes on of ‘ not cross-selling but cross-advising ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ For a woman who claims to have had little to do with my countrymen , ’ Nicolo said coldly , ‘ you seem very well informed . ’ |