Example sentences of "[vb infin] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who can never dare to move close because of the inevitable withdrawal afterwards may experience little sexual desire . |
| 2 | Of 1.6 million properties on the new valuation list , ‘ 928,000 would lose , 590,000 would gain , and 108,000 would experience little change ’ ( The Independent 21. 12.89:2 ) . |
| 3 | To be fair , the government of Hong Kong has such pressing social problems on its hands that it can spare little time either for passing or , equally important , enforcing conservation laws . |
| 4 | Many estate agents were whistling to keep up their confidence this week , claiming that people were already used to the idea of higher mortgage rates and that the latest increase would make little difference . |
| 5 | For an individual country , acting alone , huge efforts will make little difference . |
| 6 | Roberts finished with 10 for 123 , and then watched his colleagues make little attempt at first to get the runs . |
| 7 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 8 | Large sums of money were being spent on the expansion of arts degree courses whose students would make little contribution to Britain 's economic welfare . |
| 9 | It may also make little sense for the social services to sever the birth links of say a ten or eleven year old , when the law gives that child the right on reaching the age of eighteen to seek out the birth parents and relatives . |
| 10 | In any case the French army had , by 1851 , become accustomed to changes of regime , so that many may have thought one more would make little difference . |
| 11 | Karnataka 's aluminium smelter may make little sense to an energy planner , but it makes a lot of sense to the politically powerful elite that reap the profits , small though they may be , from the production of aluminium . |
| 12 | An extensive survey of obsolescence studies by Line and Sandison , however , concludes that the librarian can make little practical use of the concept of obsolescence . |
| 13 | It seems likely that they will make little impact , one reason being that they appear to be more concerned with targeting existing jobs rather than creating genuinely new ones . |
| 14 | Corbett sensed he would make little princess if de Craon continued in this vein ; he walked over to where a small , wooden crucifix was nailed to the mast and put his hand on it . |
| 15 | It would make little difference what time of day it was . |
| 16 | Likewise , the Christian mind will make little progress in any direction unless its presuppositions are completely and consistently renewed by being brought into line with the whole of God 's truth . |
| 17 | In most areas , the votes of mentally handicapped people may make little difference but in very marginal constituencies , such as Brecon and Radnor , where there are approximately 250 people with a severe mental handicap and where the majority was only 56 at the last election , the voting patterns of even small populations could have a crucial effect . |
| 18 | His research into the possible use of guerrillas led him to champion preparations for all types of irregular operations , although he could make little headway against the traditional thinking of those directing military operations . |
| 19 | In recent years , despondently , they have concluded ‘ that questions about what the sampo was can never be satisfactorily answered and that even if they could , an answer would probably make little contribution to the understanding of the poems ’ . |
| 20 | This would make little difference except on the occasions when , by ill luck , one or more such items of infalling material happened to be big . |
| 21 | Mr Donovan 's mere financial gain will probably make little difference to him and it is debatable whether his name ‘ has been cleared once and for all ’ as it did not need clearing in the first place . |
| 22 | In practice one suspects that it would make little sense to the participants in any of these cases to ask who is really being supported : . |
| 23 | Such articles and books will make little sense , for instance , to an untutored reader : this , in fact , is the major justification for organising learning in specific institutions where such readers can learn how to make sense of ‘ the words on the page ’ . |
| 24 | Moscow was abandoned , but Napoleon could make little use of its capture — especially since nine-tenths of the old capital was burned to the ground . |
| 25 | Peasants might share their longing to see the abolition of taxes and noble landownership , but they could make little of the more visionary socialist elements of the young radicals ' propaganda , or indeed of their attacks on the revered Tsar . |
| 26 | This argument can make little appeal to anyone not caught up in the artifices of philosophy . |
| 27 | As a result during the rest of the summer he could make little headway against the officials whom Henry left in charge of Aquitaine when he once again turned his attention to the north . |
| 28 | The combination of prophetic denunciation and broad generalization did not appeal to his contemporaries ; as one of his colleagues in the Chandos Group ( where Eliot had been discussing the matters contained in his book ) wrote later , " It is understandable that The Idea of a Christian Society should make little appeal to the large majority of the intelligentsia . |
| 29 | Of the Unionist press , only the Daily Telegraph supported the coalition , and it could make little head against such a tide . |
| 30 | The ladies could make little sense of them in terms of their norms of dress . |