Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who had little locomotor activity are hospitalised more often , have surgery more often and die sooner . |
| 2 | The defendant 's servant , who had little skill as a chauffeur , started the engine of the car and without any fault on his part the petrol in the carburettor caught fire . |
| 3 | Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it . |
| 4 | The majority were individuals doing their national service , who had little enthusiasm for that , let alone for a task of this type in this perishingly cold country . |
| 5 | None the less , civilized people should not be called upon to suffer such cheek from the younger generation , who had little spending power and did nothing to justify their existence . |
| 6 | But to the father who had little sense of his divine power , he replied , ‘ If it is possible ! … |
| 7 | Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end . |
| 8 | The Webbs , who had little sympathy with Liberal cosmopolitanism , were happy to come to terms with the imperialist agenda in order to promote their own brand of statist socialism . |
| 9 | In a competitive match-up , the Eagles knocked the New York Giants out of the unbeaten ranks , leaving the Los Angeles Rams , who had little trouble with the Atlanta Falcons , with the League 's only perfect record . |
| 10 | He was probably very frustrated too as his bride , who had little time to be with him , was struggling to keep two homes running . |
| 11 | Fowler , who had little time for him , was mildly surprised at his erudition . |
| 12 | Grunte , who had little time for the Third World , said that as far as he was concerned , most of it seemed to have moved to Birmingham . |
| 13 | This was undertaken by one of the more experienced older women who had little understanding of possible complications . |
| 14 | Over a thousand students left their dormitories and protested outside the campus administrative building by putting up posters and calling for the resignation of key officials who had little understanding or sympathy with their plight . |
| 15 | Odo 's biography was written by a monk who had little interest in the miraculous and much in practical virtues . |
| 16 | This from a man who had little interest in the event when he went up to Magdalene College last autumn to study transport and marketing — and the Boat Race is a triumph of both these days . |
| 17 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 18 | They met with little armed resistance ( which must have been a relief to Louis , who had little confidence in his own military skill ) , and gained considerable incidental profit : the king 's person was seen in an area unvisited since the reign of Louis IV ; the counts of Nevers , Chalon , and Mâcon were brought to heel ; Burgundian lords appealed for the king 's mediation in their quarrels ( he also sought theirs ) ; the count of Forez , hitherto only a vassal of the Emperor , declared his most important castles to be held as fief of the crown of France , the first step in the integration of Forez into the French realm . |