Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouting at cats or hitting them has little effect . |
| 2 | Serum pepsinogen I shows little response to eating . |
| 3 | Now the authorities say she has little chance of getting them back . |
| 4 | In contrast to the immediate post-war generation of Conservative leaders , Churchill , Eden , Butler , and Macmillan , she has little sense of guilt ( ‘ bourgeois guilt ’ was the phrase she used in New York to the Institute of Economic Studies on 15 September 1975 ) for the unemployment of the 1930s . |
| 5 | She has little patience with any feminist arguments against such pin-ups . |
| 6 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 7 | Particularly , she has little time for a group called Yello , the Swiss electro-band with whom she collaborated on a single last year , much in the way Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys or Gene Pitney and Marc Almond have . |
| 8 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 9 | She has little interest in achieving consensus . |
| 10 | She wears little make-up for work and says : ‘ It goes back to the time when I started in the job . |
| 11 | She takes little exercise , does not even walk much , and prefers to use the car or public transport . |
| 12 | While she enjoys all outdoor sporting activities , she finds little time due to work and IBOA interests . |
| 13 | ( She speaks little English . ) |
| 14 | He is annoyed that she does little cleaning and that the burden of getting Keith and Amy up and breakfasted is always his responsibility . |
| 15 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
| 16 | Although it receives little publicity outside the ICI Group , Chlor-chemicals is one of ICI 's longest standing and most consistently successful businesses . |
| 17 | It offers little discussion of some topics and is not controversial ( contrary to the claim on the back of the book ) . |
| 18 | It has become fashionable to say that this kind of equality is unimportant because it offers little protection against tyranny . |
| 19 | WHEN a member of a Harlem street gang decides to escape his life of crime by using his DJ skills he receives little support , and the growing tension leads to violence . |
| 20 | In fact , the dilemma of any national state in cultural terms is that it is charged with defending cultural patrimony within a world market over which it exercises little control . |
| 21 | It does not need a gearbox , and it needs little maintenance . |
| 22 | Now that opposition to the governor 's plan to create the park is growing , it seems likely that , if the Yanomami Park is not created before UNCED , it stands little chance of ever becoming a reality . |
| 23 | In France they have devised a logical system whereby senior officials of the Bureau d'Enquête d'Accident are formally recognised by the magistrate as officials of his court , thereby relieving the magistrate himself of much responsibility relating to highly technical matters of which he has little comprehension while at the same time enabling the professional investigators immediate access to the wreckage of the aircraft and its records , etc. in their pursuit of the cause of the accident . |
| 24 | Many college curricula , especially in scientific and technological subjects , subject the student to such a barrage of facts and opinions that he has little chance to pause and assess what has taken place so far . |
| 25 | However , William Matteuzzi 's Almaviva is so weak that it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to picture her preferring the young Count to the lecherous old Dr Bartolo ; and although the late Giuseppe Patane conducts the score with obvious affection , he has little flare for dramatic pacing . |
| 26 | He does not go abroad much which is as well since he has little sense of direction and has twice been found many miles from home wandering the streets . |
| 27 | He has little sympathy for the Arab nationalism that destroyed the Jews of Baghdad and the Christian Assyrians , and he quotes at length from Stephen Bloom 's ‘ almost lyrical ’ account of a Romanian childhood where Germans , Slovaks , Russians , Greeks , Turks , Armenians and Jews provided harmonious diversity . |
| 28 | He has little sympathy with those in his party who want more radical action . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the company seems to have lost its way of late — even Mr Sugar is on record as saying he has little idea of where the next 1512 is going to come from . |
| 30 | He has little difficulty in pulling summer sheets and other light rugs straight over his head , even if there are straps under his tummy , so at night he has a rug with leg straps to keep it in place . |