Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I also realised at that time that the future had little meaning for me . |
| 5 | The turbine had little success as it emptied the mill pond too quickly and thus became inefficient , a common problem with the early turbines . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The other members of the Committee had little effect on the course of the examinations . |
| 8 | Having the right in the more serious cases to appeal over the head of the chief constable to the Watch Committee had little effect . |
| 9 | Consequently , the original policy of allowing tariff-free imports into the zone had little coherence with other national policies . |
| 10 | Vanguard had little organization in East Belfast and the Official Unionists gave very little assistance . |
| 11 | This question had little significance and was relevant only to the part-time farmers as most family farmers said they did not take holidays . |
| 12 | It was often a lower middle-class phenomenon , and was always fiercest in central and eastern Europe where the great mass of the population had little commitment to capitalist society or to the liberal values it generated . |
| 13 | It is true also that warfare had little influence on the arts , the most obvious indicator of the ‘ climate of opinion ’ , during the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
| 15 | The laity had little interest in protecting church liberties and franchises , and the clergy were mainly set in motion by the archbishop 's concern for the harmony of the realm . |
| 16 | When we looked at the additional explanatory power brought to these models by information about the worker 's family responsibilities we found that parenthood had little effect on men 's labour force participation or pay . |
| 17 | The official price of gold was increased to $ 38 an ounce , but this move had little significance since the dollar was no longer officially convertible into gold . |
| 18 | An ordinary individual buying a product from a supplier who had a monopoly in the product had little choice but to accept the terms imposed on him or manage without it . |
| 19 | Their small numbers and low profile , combined with a ‘ hippie ’ ethos of ‘ peace and love ’ to which crimes involving the burglary of people 's homes and violence against the person are anathema , meant that this group had little impact on the community as a whole . |
| 20 | Aristocratic paternalism and Die-hardism had little place in Baldwin 's Conservative party . |
| 21 | Their country was overpopulated ; the leadership had little care for life . |
| 22 | Thus a great event like the French Revolution had little resonance in Spanish opinion and the efforts at revolutionary propaganda had little success . |
| 23 | Admittedly there were signs in the late 1980s that this pattern was breaking down , if only because both superpowers were becoming too weak economically to maintain their former roles , and because the model of a world divided by the October Revolution had little relation to the realities of the late 20th century . |
| 24 | Thus a great event like the French Revolution had little resonance in Spanish opinion and the efforts at revolutionary propaganda had little success . |
| 25 | Would this mean that children with special educational needs , whose chronological age had little relevance to their scholastic progress , would be publicly judged against certain criteria applied nationally to the whole ability range ? |
| 26 | As ash trees are not ‘ forest trees ’ in its plantations , the Commission had little interest in them . |
| 27 | Those aware of his unpopularity and unilateralism had little difficulty in comprehending the motives of his assassins . |
| 28 | It was the 11th time his four-party coalition had survived such a vote in eight months but the news had little impact on markets which had already discounted a win . |
| 29 | More important , the cost of legal action to seek redress had become so prohibitive that the consumer had little chance of taking legal action against suppliers . |
| 30 | Whitehall set to work on the implications of the Charter for postwar economic policy , but senior Ministers had no time to spare and the series of politicians who assumed responsibility for post-war planning had little weight in Cabinet . |