Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] too little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the displays also show the results of paying too little attention to human factors ! |
| 2 | But other aid groups have accused the UN agencies of doing too little , too late . |
| 3 | ( Arnoult 's ( 1953 , experiment 2 ) , failure to find an effect was probably a consequence of giving too little preliminary training . ) |
| 4 | Hosiers were accused of making too little allowance for normal waste , so that they could fine knitters whose returned work was lighter than the yarn which had been given out . |
| 5 | They fell into the trap of relying too little on equity finance and too much on credit |
| 6 | In contrast with earlier enquiries — especially Beckford — they were criticized for paying too little attention to parents and for having ‘ a strong focus on the needs of the child in isolation from the family ’ ( DOH , 1988 , para. 4. 57 ) . |
| 7 | But the centres which were the linchpin of the movement were criticized both for erring too much on the side of prevention — tackling such issues as racism , poverty and education in the communities served , and for doing too little prevention , this arising from the affiliation of most of them to general and mental hospitals . |
| 8 | There were limits , however , to how far he was ready to stimulate German demand to help other countries and he was critical of the Americans , British and others for doing too little to tackle inflation . |
| 9 | The only " reason " given by Anderson — " I changed my mind " ( p. 87 ) — clearly violates the maxim of quantity in providing too little information , and his excuse , that he " did n't realize it mattered " , violates the maxim of quality because , being a Cambridge don who has been to a number of overseas conferences , he will be well aware of the procedures involved . |
| 10 | The rich no longer deserve to be rich , or the poor to be poor : there is no merit in having enough money : there is little pleasure in having too little money . |
| 11 | So , of course you might be running into trouble by doing too much , by being over-zealous and when you do things , or you may also be inviting criticism and inviting the , the great fickle hand of of bureaucratic power down upon you by doing too little too late , and that 's often the , that 's often the criticism which people in your profession and several other professions get accused of . |