Example sentences of "[coord] have little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I managed to get in hundreds of leaflets , through a few loyal workers in the Department , but these were either destroyed or had little effect ; or more likely , were not adequately distributed out of fear . |
| 2 | Many small towns in rural areas have been chosen as the sites of branch plants because they have ready supplies of labour which ( drawing on low female activity rates ) is flexible , is relatively cheap , and has little tradition of trade unionism . |
| 3 | Mr Alan Howarth , who joined the DES only in the July reshuffle and has little experience of and no responsibility for higher education , will be Mr Jackson 's back-up . |
| 4 | There is an immediate contrast with the literary criticism and theory of the early twentieth century , in that most recent work begins and ends in the academy , and has little contact with current literary practice . |
| 5 | He 's since written a 4-volume history of wartime intelligence and has little doubt about Bletchley 's significance . |
| 6 | In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ? |
| 7 | The result is that , by and large , the fiscal has to take the case as the police have presented it ; he does not seize the opportunity to come into direct contact with the investigation and has little chance of finding out what the police have ignored . |
| 8 | Pendrich has also qualified for the sprint freestyle , but currently lies in eleventh place and has little chance of replacing Sheppard as the new champion . |
| 9 | Like many women who have crashed through the glass ceiling — or , perhaps , ignored it — she is strongly opposed to positive discrimination in favour of women and has little time for the argument that women do n't succeed because they are women . |
| 10 | The designation is a form of landscape protection only and has little value in nature conservation terms . |
| 11 | Today Bob is visiting Clinton Tanner , a tetraplegic who is confined to a wheelchair and has little use of his hands following an accident when he dived into a swimming pool . |
| 12 | But while Mystified Man is youngish and has little confidence , he wants more involvement with his baby . |
| 13 | In cells that are oscillating , the magnitude of this influx component through second messenger-operated channels is often rather small and has little effect on the intracellular level of calcium during the interval between spikes , mainly because it is rapidly sequestered by the internal stores . |
| 14 | The maintenance of the right of silence in police station interviews — the Commission 's own research showed that this right is little used and has little effect on the decision of the police whether or not to prosecute or on the outcome of the proceedings . |
| 15 | These foxes seem to have no instinct to hunt and have little fear of man . |
| 16 | Both Aden Arabie and Les Chiens de garde were judged to be essentially lightweight literary texts , lacking in substantive Marxist analysis , excessively centred on a purely verbal , abstract revolt , and having little relevance to the contemporary class struggle . |
| 17 | He was always loyal and when we had a house maid who adored Basil and had little affection for his sisters and she used to stand up for him as hardly done by , he would have none of it , to my remembered satisfaction . |
| 18 | He was meticulous in his use of words and had little patience with careless speech or syntax . |
| 19 | He did not mix with the crowd at the Rotonde and had little sympathy with the wild scenes of the moderns . |
| 20 | He stood by his convictions and had little difficulty in keeping public confidence . |
| 21 | She 'd done some TV before , but she 'd just left school , and had little knowledge of the working world and MEN . |
| 22 | UNTIL RECENTLY , each of the great religions of the world developed independently and had little contact with one another . |
| 23 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 24 | Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top . |
| 25 | It was property-led , market- and business-related , aimed at small firms and had little emphasis on employment . |
| 26 | The CC C P Par army was a quarter the size of the K M T and had little money and no tanks , therefore it needed mobilization of the peasants in the villages , they needed the peasants to volunteer to join the P L A and to protect their own property so they thought that this would be an incentive for them . |
| 27 | Both saw English literature as the expression of a nation , and had little truck with foreign theorising . |
| 28 | Churchill wanted action of a dramatic kind and had little use for MI6 . |
| 29 | Lisa had a good degree from some northern university and had little trouble finding herself a job in a proper publishing house — 'Biding my time , ’ she said laughing . |
| 30 | They were also staffed largely by doctors and had little input from other professional members of the team . |