Example sentences of "be so little [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 World Bank officials have no pat answers for why there has been so little trickle-down in Thailand .
2 Because there has been so little change in British industrial and fiscal policies in a changing world , the emerging nations are overtaking us , gaining access to our markets at home and abroad .
3 Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date .
4 Part of the reason there has been so little bloodshed is that nobody yet is certain who killed Mr Gandhi or why .
5 WHY HAS THERE BEEN SO LITTLE COMMUNITY BENEFIT ?
6 As she says : ‘ There seems to be so little appreciation of the potentially devastating emotional effect of finding yourself a victim ’
7 He spent most of his time with his godmother , which left Theda free to do some long-neglected tasks for herself , for her meagre wardrobe of old — and some cast-off — clothing required frequent mending , and , there being so little service , she must wash her linen herself .
8 The other reason we claim so often to be arguing about a matter of principle is that there is so little substance in many arguments that a reference to principle is necessary in order to sustain the argument .
9 At the river mouths are stones and huge boulders brought down when the rivers are in flood , although most of the year there is so little water in the rivers that it is hard to imagine .
10 Could you please advise me on this matter as there is so little literature available on skin allergies and pigmentation .
11 One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea .
12 This is because there is so little fat included in the diet and the exercises reach deep into the body , toning your muscles and improving your shape .
13 RAM TV : Why is so little reggae played on TV and radio ?
14 In a way what is most striking , however , is that there is so little evidence from post-classical times : Levy 's Ergänzungsindex provides a fascinating illustration of just how many sources completely lack references to trusts .
15 It is seldom practised with roses now — there is so little advantage over what can be achieved by budding — and is really of superfluous interest to be included here .
16 The reason why there is so little progress is horribly tangled up in the overall failure of Italy 's public life , a failure which is arousing mounting concern among her EC partners .
17 It 's because people know so little about themselves that their knowledge of nature is so little use to them .
18 It has to be as , apart from briefly translating ideas for a new character on to paper , he finds ‘ there is so little time .
19 Because there is so little drag on crossing two stitches every four rows this is one time when you will not need to take down a stitch to either side of the cable .
20 I think this is generally because there is so little loft on the clubface and they fear that they will not get the ball into the air .
21 Really , I 'm surprised that there is so little blood with these operations . ’
22 Her the narrow lanes are most pleasant for cycling , horseriding or even driving out in a pony trap for there is so little traffic and so much nature to be observed .
23 It 's all because there 's so little hope in England that you have to turn to Paris , or somewhere abroad .
24 I feel sorry for novelists when they have to mention women 's eyes : there 's so little choice , and whatever colouring is decided upon inevitably carries banal implications .
25 There 's so little space , though , that no weapon can be swung effectively ( damage is halved , and two-handed weapons are useless save for pommel-smashing ) , and no more than two characters can get in an effective blow each round .
26 I could relate to that ; I mean , there 's so little leg room in most of them .
27 ‘ The thing is , there 's so little time in between tournaments and already I spend so little time in Bruhl and in Boca Raton , and it would n't make a lot of sense .
28 There 's so little mind .
29 Now , in some situations , the magistrate might say there 's so little value in the evidence here that I wo n't hear it all , I 'll just exclude it .
30 Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs .
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