Example sentences of "[noun] had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great changes in intellectual thinking had little effect upon European culture as a whole . |
| 2 | The civil servants of enlightened despotism had little conception of systematically using institutional power against the aristocracy ; bureaucrats thought of themselves as government servants , not as combatants in a class struggle . |
| 3 | Gittell ( 1980 ) , in a research study of school-related citizen organizations in three American cities , finds that both lower- and middle-class parent organizations had little effect on educational decision-making , their declared goal . |
| 4 | The seafaring Omanis of the Batinah coast had little contact with the interior , but travelled far and wide in search of trade , even building a maritime empire in the area between Portuguese and British domination of the trade routes . |
| 5 | I also realised at that time that the future had little meaning for me . |
| 6 | With entire responsibility for teaching and discipline , Hill had little time for original work ; but his edition ( 1816 ) of Artis Logicae Compendium by Henry Aldrich [ q.v. ] proved an acceptable university textbook , reaching a sixth edition in 1850 . |
| 7 | Owen believes , for example , that lepidopteran populations fluctuate so widely due to entirely natural causes that the use of pesticides had little effect on them — although it does affect ground predators . |
| 8 | Before 1914 , when European socialist parties had little prospect of power , the contradiction between their ambition to establish democratic control over economic life , and their sympathy for a liberal internationalism rooted in the principles of the free market , remained largely unacknowledged . |
| 9 | There was nothing wrong in that , except that Eleanor had little idea about the conditions awaiting her on the construction site in Alaska . |
| 10 | The turbine had little success as it emptied the mill pond too quickly and thus became inefficient , a common problem with the early turbines . |
| 11 | And er they felt had little prestige and that the French peop The French Canadian speakers had little prestige in their own language . |
| 12 | Clements had little interest in evolution . |
| 13 | Clearly Mrs Downes had little idea what she 'd thought . |
| 14 | Durkheim had little difficulty in employing this material to demonstrate how beliefs in the mystical powers of animals and other ‘ totemic ’ forces reflected the structure of Aboriginal hordes and their component divisions . |
| 15 | Although the Channel Tunnel Company set up during the 1880s survived the abandonment of the project , the pro-tunnel lobby had little success over the next 40 years despite a rash of Bills in Parliament and an inquiry by the Committee of Imperial defence in 1913 . |
| 16 | In the third quarter Bridgend had little difficulty in wiping out an 11-point deficit , Huw Bevan supporting Aled Williams 's break for their second try . |
| 17 | The other members of the Committee had little effect on the course of the examinations . |
| 18 | Having the right in the more serious cases to appeal over the head of the chief constable to the Watch Committee had little effect . |
| 19 | One analyst of these matters has noted that ‘ Stalin had little reason to expect that control of Communist countries would differ markedly from control of Communist parties . ’ |
| 20 | Whether or not in our time parents may be said to be justified by the sad statistics of the permissive society , it is certain that in the nineteenth century , parents had little option because of the sad statistics of mortality among children . |
| 21 | The teenage mothers like their parents had little ambition and worse prospects for anything except further childbearing ( Cartwright 1978 ) . |
| 22 | Top-up funds from parents had little impact , however , in secondary schools where capitation levels ranged from £1.30 to £2.73 a pupil — money which usually had also to cover stationery and printing costs . |
| 23 | Even here the Communists had little success , their activity remaining on the third level of faction fighting and street corner abuse of the rest of the labour movement . |
| 24 | They took her out , across the wide Neva river to the north-east of the city , to a long street of factories and high concrete walls where tourists and visitors had little reason to go . |
| 25 | A would-be separator from the commune in these areas had little prospect of acquiring sufficient land and commanding adequate capital to establish a viable independent farmstead . |
| 26 | With the Everqueen lost , the Elves had little heart to fight on . |
| 27 | Consequently , the original policy of allowing tariff-free imports into the zone had little coherence with other national policies . |
| 28 | Vanguard had little organization in East Belfast and the Official Unionists gave very little assistance . |
| 29 | Madame Weill had little choice . |
| 30 | Last night Lendl had little difficulty in defeating John McEnroe 6-4 , 6-4 at the conclusion of the round robin phase . |