Example sentences of "little [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 2 | They know little about what they are being asked to invest in , but they do believe that the Government 's determination to make the privatisation succeed will ensure that the water authorities are presented as a steal . |
| 3 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the streamed situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in erm sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 4 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the stream situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 5 | Can I ask you Professor Lock to say a little about what you consider the housing implications of such a policy might be ? |
| 6 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 7 | I have to assume therefore that the rest is equally bad and that little of what we read in guidebooks as climbing history should be taken seriously . |
| 8 | While I am all for buying British , very little of what we buy here today is entirely British . |
| 9 | And it soon became apparent that very little of what we did in the department would pass any objective assessment of a clearly understood and resourced process to satisfy agreed customer requirements . |
| 10 | But the security and long-term attractions of many of the investor/developers , as opposed to the property traders which hold on to little of what they develop , makes many of the downgradings a nonsense . |
| 11 | Yet the vast majority of children will use little of what they learn . |
| 12 | ‘ I understand only a little of what you say . |
| 13 | ‘ I know little of what you women were speaking of , ’ he said , ‘ but I feel I should counsel you against seeking this man Jeopardy yourself . ’ |
| 14 | Go on — excite your palate with a little of what you fancy : the soft , the sharp , the acid tang of novelty . |
| 15 | You can get plenty of what you do n't want and a little of what you do want . |
| 16 | I read and read , but increasingly , as I grew older , understood very little of what I read . |
| 17 | But over and above that , most Americans in the late eighteenth century believed that , in so far as government had any impact on their lives , it would be local government , it would be the government of their state and not the remote government in Washington which most people in the eighteenth century had never visited or knew anything about erm or li knew little of what it did . |
| 18 | While little of what he has to say relates directly to rhetoric , the account of the similarities across cultures shows what structural components are required for such a broadcast to be taken seriously ; to attempt alternatives is to undermine the force of the predictions . |
| 19 | Henry II spent a large part of a long career campaigning in France ; but his wars added very little to what he had gained by marriage . |
| 20 | It was not even that he conformed so little to what I had imagined . |