Example sentences of "little [coord] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 First , it is evident that the broad public interest criteria which are identified in the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , and the existence of the ‘ gateways ’ in the Restrictive Trades Practices Act 1976 , potentially ( and in practice ) permit issues to be considered that either have little or nothing to do with economic efficiency , or are more properly the concern of other areas of policy .
2 More often , however , the term was reserved for Delaunay and his disciples , Bruce , Frost , Sonia Delaunay and Alice Bailly , and for painters such as Picabia , Kupka and Duchamp who had all been originally classified as Cubists but whose work was becoming more abstract , although it had little or nothing to do with that of Delaunay .
3 You will find , too , that much of the invented music which is wrapped around the perceived nakedness of those song-melodies uses textures and harmonic colours that have little or nothing to do with real medieval polyphony .
4 Their responsibilities often included areas which had little or nothing to do with foreign policy .
5 It was an appealing idea because it at least seemed to offer some sort of progression to the work at a time when there was little or nothing written about coherent development in drama .
6 Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers .
7 Too much work and people lose touch with each other ; too little and they get under one another 's feet .
8 They 're bigger than us , they stand for a bigger establishment than we do , like , we 're just little and they stand for bigger things , and you try to get your own back .
9 Yet I am so little and I live behind hard iron bars , eating synthoats … ’
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