Example sentences of "[prep] so little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she loved his body , the astringent unsweaty cleverness of it , that gave with delight and asked for so little back . |
| 2 | And for so little money ! |
| 3 | In no other area of environmental policy does legislation impose such burdens for so little gain . |
| 4 | Have so many ever died for so little gain ? |
| 5 | Did you ever think it was unfair that you had to work so hard for so little money ? |
| 6 | Which is the purest bull , I know : any second now — so invasively , so grimly , and on the basis of so little acquaintance — Tod 's going to stick his finger up the poor guy 's ass . |
| 7 | Norwegian conservationists are furious that the directorate , which is reluctant to fund studies of wolves , is authorising the hunting of the endangered species on the basis of so little information . |
| 8 | Indeed , as Wolfram points out , such relationships are of so little importance within British kinship that there are no recognized kinship terms for many of these relationships gained through marriage ( Wolfram , 1987 , p. 4 ) . |
| 9 | It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking . |
| 10 | And how interesting was the way in which it took advantage of so little light as to shine enough for me to see it so clearly . |
| 11 | Perhaps the fact that those most frequently bereaved , the very old , have been the subject of so little research in this area , is in itself indicative of ageism amongst the professionals . |
| 12 | The corollary of the theory , of course , is that ads for the cheap , day-to-day , convenience type of product are of so little interest to anybody that they should carry a minimum of information , and that they will even then have great difficulty in achieving any very active response from customers . |
| 13 | With so little fat in the diet I would n't have been surprised to receive reports of dryness , but I had no reason to worry . |
| 14 | More than likely his younger brothers and sisters would welcome a new mother , but he was too nearly a man to take kindly to any woman set with so little warning in his own mother 's place , especially when this new incumbent stood to gain a crown as well as a ring . |
| 15 | Lord Brougham believed of Liverpool that : ‘ No minister ever passed his time with so little ill-will directed against himself , or had so much forbearance shown him upon all occasions . ’ |
| 16 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |
| 17 | God , it hurt to think that their love-making meant so little to him that he could dismiss it with so little difficulty . |
| 18 | She made a little rite of soaking her feet in a corn cure called ‘ Reudel ’ , and as she lowered her feet into the bowl of steaming water there was again that little look , that narrowing of the eyes and pursing of the lips , which said so much with so little disturbance of her features . |
| 19 | Poor women , receiving a gift with so little thought behind it ! |
| 20 | If a third of the adult population viewed reading with so little enthusiasm , was it any wonder that many children were doubtful as to its worth ? |
| 21 | Dunleavy also wishes to distinguish between different levels of the bureaucracy in explaining why , contrary to budget-maximization accounts , privatization has met with so little resistance from senior officials . |
| 22 | But so much gallantry to be squandered with so little hope ! |
| 23 | For one thing it was too babyish — Moses Arkwright would never do anything with so little risk attached to it — and for another , deep in the dark of his mind a small seed of moral uneasiness had begun to germinate . |
| 24 | Just a few paragraphs in and we are plunged into the fog and grime of the capital : in 1817 the American Ambassador was enveloped in a midday fog in Bond Street so thick that he felt tempted to ask how the English became so great with so little daylight . |
| 25 | That it will reach 130mph was no surprise but to do so with so little fuss and noise was impressive . |
| 26 | So many films with so little time torture the eyeballs and numb the brain . |
| 27 | There can not be another 42 with so little use , this boat is in as new condition . |
| 28 | Several other sets of doors were dotted around the floor and , far off to the left , a black maw opened up in the wall , with so little light coming from it that Benny was certain the tunnel beyond turned several times before reaching the outside world . |
| 29 | She felt annoyed with herself , made miserable with so little cause . |
| 30 | There never was a time when so many could get about so quickly , comfortably , and with so little effort as we can now ( except when they were infants in arms ) . |