Example sentences of "it have little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has little sympathy with intruders .
2 But it has little choice .
3 Such beauty may make a strong impact , but , if it has little relationship with the inner nature , it is precarious .
4 Worse , they feel it has little relevance to everyday business decisions , where right and wrong are by no means always clear-cut .
5 It has little relevance in other countries , though a few ( e.g. Denmark and Norway ) have recorded a formal objection , and it appears to have been used in one case for communication from a U.S. attorney to a French huissier .
6 As presently envisaged , it has little relevance to medical practice in hospitals .
7 Mr Wallace expects to get support for his view that the Scottish Constitutional Convention should go into cold storage , not just because it has little relevance but also to expose Labour as uninterested in cross-party co-operation .
8 Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge .
9 But if an incident has occurred involving violence or which leads to a soured atmosphere at work , management may consider that it has little option but to take action .
10 Thus as a formal method of scrutiny it has little value .
11 It has little impact on local history studies , for gradually the system of numbering the days of the month as a continuous series was , with one outstanding exception , accepted .
12 It has little effect at low currents but severely reduces voltage at high currents .
13 However , as a model , it has little detail and is not a suitable tool for analytical work .
14 It has little flavour and is used mainly to colour foods .
15 Liberals may appreciate that conclusion , but it has little basis in empirical fact .
16 I mean it 's you know , it 's just to people in the film industry and obviously it has little interest reading it
17 Because it has little executive power itself , the union faces a long hard road to have the motion adopted .
18 By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy .
19 The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout .
20 Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating .
21 It had little relevance .
22 THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success .
23 Frustratingly , however , the IPG was unable to view these publications in advance and so it had little idea as to how useful they would be .
24 In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership .
25 At the same time the Bakufu was held responsible by the powers for attacks on foreigners by anti-foreign elements , over which it had little control .
26 But it did not manage the schools and outside London and several other cities , such as Bristol , it had little strength .
27 All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably .
28 In the 1950s , the government of Colonel Oscar Osorio ( 1950–6 ) passed a law prohibiting prostitution in El Salvador , although it had little effect beyond filling the prisons for a short time .
29 She screamed , but it had little effect , just added to the confusion that reigned in the room .
30 We had continuous news from the front , but unless it involved someone we knew , it had little effect on us .
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