Example sentences of "little [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , having surveyed the yeomanry at length , Smith too reached the point beyond which he possessed little specific knowledge of the people under discussion , unless he felt that there was little that could usefully be said about those who had ‘ neither voice nor authority in the commonwealth , and no account is made of them but onelie to be ruled , not to rule others ’ . |
| 2 | Although there is little specific mention of the lifeboat service the sea is never any further from the book than it is from the history of the town of Blackpool . |
| 3 | Certainly , there is little strong evidence of an unambiguous growth in permissive child-rearing practice , at least in the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | It thus seems that there has been very little geological reworking of the Mercurian surface since the apparent planet-wide obliteration of most craters at the beginning . |
| 5 | It would still be reasonable to suspect that someone prepared to borrow money at high rates of interest was likely to be particularly vulnerable , even if there is now little surviving residue of the old suspicion or disapproval of interest-bearing credit on ethical grounds . |
| 6 | In fact , we have little solid evidence of the effects of earlier waves of unemployment on old people . |
| 7 | Whatever the merits of these arguments , there can be little doubt that for much of its existence the LDDC has not sought out partnership arrangements with elected local bodies — it has pursued market-led strategies whose impact on local communities has proved far from advantageous ; it has largely ignored local planning procedures ; and there has been little public accountability of its Policies and spending . |
| 8 | It surprised her how little public knowledge of Jonathan 's behaviour affected her . |
| 9 | There was little public knowledge of the extent to which intelligence tests had already become part of the machinery of secondary selection by 1940 , nor how far their use was tied in with that of standardised tests of attainment in English and arithmetic , which were provided , marked and correlated by the same person or organisation . |
| 10 | The BF on the other hand was named after the new Italian experiment in 1923 , even though it had little direct knowledge of the aims and ideas of Mussolini . |
| 11 | Employers in the main seem to see little direct relevance of education to specific job requirements . |
| 12 | England 's external wars were fought principally in France , so most Englishmen had little direct experience of warfare , apart from those in the north , where relations with Scotland were always likely to break out into open hostility . |
| 13 | The physical monitoring started with very little clear idea of how to proceed . |
| 14 | Some , particularly in smaller institutes , do the job well : but others ‘ have little clear notion of where they stand nationally or internationally . ’ |
| 15 | There is little detailed exploration of the contradictions , and none of the ambivalences that might characterize the racism of their subjects ( for contrasting discussions see Cohen , 1988,1991 ) . |
| 16 | Furthermore , there can be little doubt that the sudden and huge growth in private residential care and nursing homes raises new problems , since there can be so little detailed control of the quality of care . |
| 17 | Once or twice he had confided in colleagues , who were sympathetic but had little personal experience of such illnesses which , in any case , were not in their field and Brian had become increasingly reserved , his life revolving round his work , his son and a wife with whom he had difficulty in communicating . |
| 18 | There is little mechanical cultivation of terraces as they are small and access to them is difficult for machinery . |
| 19 | One of the ubiquitous Metro–Cammell built–dmus ( No 101339 ) leaves the fuelling point at Glasgow 's Eastfield TMD on 29 May 1982. a quarter of the decade passed with little visible sign of change . |
| 20 | Oddly there seems to he very little official recognition of this incident , save a soldier and a girl who were casualties in different areas of Leith . |
| 21 | When the victim was an inoffensive law abiding citizen , therefore , or a constables who , by virtue of his training , is unlikely to respond to what the defendant was doing by committing a breach of the peace , there was little real likelihood of a breach of the peace , and no offence was committed , in spite of the defendant 's intolerably bullying behaviour . |
| 22 | There was bluegrass music from the mountains and blues from the deep south and a building of bridges between both cultures which hitherto had very little real experience of each other . |
| 23 | Although learned he had little real experience of statecraft of warfare . |
| 24 | Indeed , even in 1991 there is little real evidence of such planning by governments and industry . |
| 25 | Despite the depressed economy she still finds little real evidence of publishers pruning their lists and , as a consequence , there are ‘ too many major titles to be able to do justice to them all ’ |
| 26 | There was little individual choice of coffin , linings or handles ; all was left to the aesthetic judgement of the undertaker , and the client was rarely asked to express his views . |
| 27 | Generally there has been little quantitative analysis of precisely how individual households adjust their expenditure behaviour in response to VAT changes and the aim of this project is to fill this gap . |
| 28 | There is little serious exploration of the issues raised by the attacks . |
| 29 | The journalists were mainly concerned to please their readers , and although there were good factual accounts in the Independent and the Times Educational Supplement there was little serious discussion of ways in which a curriculum in English affects our ideas of national identity . |
| 30 | I believe that the very speed at which they have been absorbed into the school system indicates an uncritical acceptance of the package because it is new and modern and fashionable and that there has been little serious examination of which aspects are relevant and which are not . |