Example sentences of "but they have little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late nineteenth-century judicial reforms did streamline court procedure , but they had little effect on the way in which the administration of law and order was popularly perceived . |
| 2 | But they had little cushioning effect . |
| 3 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 4 | They looked for abstract relationships between the different structures , but they had little incentive to ask what kind of circumstance might lead a species to change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 5 | The soldiers grumbled on returning home to find their wives turned yellow by picric acid , but they had little redress . |
| 6 | Thus at present they have a gene that controls limb development , but they have little idea what its role is . |
| 7 | These may be very useful in certain domains , but they have little to do with that actual flowing movement of life which concerns us deeply and intimately . |
| 8 | This means that she can throw out the eggs of her nest mates , but they have little chance to throw out hers . |
| 9 | Crisps and cornflakes are cornerstones of the multinational mass market , and maybe they could be a route to worldwide understanding , but they have little to contribute directly to the second problem — that of the short-term habitat destruction , which is now a worldwide epidemic . |
| 10 | The provisions of the Act are complex , but they have little effect on media freedom . |