Example sentences of "had little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were embarrassingly naive about the rules of engagement and readily admitted their drug use even when we had little or no evidence to prove the point ; a most ‘ un-prig ’ like quality ! |
| 2 | The Reverend Archibald Menzies , minister to the stony and muddy village of Dull , was not exactly the pride of his parishioners — he had little chance of being that , since he had been chosen by the laird , not elected by the people . |
| 3 | Further , Lorca , a gifted painter and pianist , had little time for the academic qua academe . |
| 4 | She was only too well aware of the fragility of the undertaking , and had little confidence in his making it . |
| 5 | In the third quarter Bridgend had little difficulty in wiping out an 11-point deficit , Huw Bevan supporting Aled Williams 's break for their second try . |
| 6 | Her comments on interest rates had little impact on financial markets but they appeared to underscore the Government 's commitment to holding up the pound . |
| 7 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 8 | Authorities often had little idea how inspectors were spending their time , the commission reports . |
| 9 | The Swiss referee , Bruno Galler , had little choice but to call the teams off . |
| 10 | Last night Lendl had little difficulty in defeating John McEnroe 6-4 , 6-4 at the conclusion of the round robin phase . |
| 11 | The couple had little in common , and her children died in infancy , one after another , a loss she attributed to the lead works Wright ran on their premises . |
| 12 | With the exception of Hitchcock , whom they worshipped , they had little time for accepted and acclaimed directors , finding more value in the more commercial movies of , for instance , Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh . |
| 13 | In a competitive match-up , the Eagles knocked the New York Giants out of the unbeaten ranks , leaving the Los Angeles Rams , who had little trouble with the Atlanta Falcons , with the League 's only perfect record . |
| 14 | She had been in the post for only seven months when the inquiry started , had little public or professional support , and there was unlikely to be any backlash to her being blamed . |
| 15 | On the eve of Nigel Lawson 's make-or-break speech to the Tory conference in Blackpool , an opinion poll last night suggested that 68 per cent of the voters had little confidence in his management of the economy . |
| 16 | Chancellor Nigel Lawson 's Tory conference speech had little impact . |
| 17 | Oslo : The government 's 1990 budget proposals had little effect , with the index slipping 2.39 to 515.81 in moderate trade . |
| 18 | But even for those who had little or nothing to hide , their sensitivity to the research led , in a minority of cases , to a reluctance to engage in conversation , the resort to silence being something which Westley noted in his research in the United States ( 1970 , p. viii ) . |
| 19 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 20 | Age , education , ideology , even strength of partisanship , had little influence on perceptions of bias on television or in the press . |
| 21 | Reading a rightwing rather than a left-wing paper improved images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though it had little or no influence on images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 22 | We found that television had a large effect on those political perceptions which had little or no attitudinal content . |
| 23 | Right-wing papers improved their readers ' images of Thatcher and the Conservative Party , and damaged their readers ' images of Kinnock and the Labour Party , though they had little or no influence upon their readers ' images of the Alliance and its leaders . |
| 24 | The peasants had little notion of belonging to any wider grouping than their own volost' , like Nikol'skaia , or even sometimes , and depending on the subject , than their own village . |
| 25 | It is true that high-level Bolshevik theorists in Moscow and Petrograd tended to select , filter , and interpret evidence from the localities in the light of their prevailing general beliefs , so that their conclusions had little foundation in hard evidence . |
| 26 | The third reason why Dzerzhinsky was sent off to distant Siberia was purely political , and had little to do with the railways . |
| 27 | More than any Prime Minister , perhaps , since Douglas-Home , she had little interest in the development or clash of ideas . |
| 28 | On the issues of the future , especially on wealth creation and technological change , Labour had little to say . |
| 29 | Although we had little notice of the tour , branches were keen to help and the Association will receive £6,628 representing 50% of the total profits . |
| 30 | The local authorities had little encouragement to economise , and housing costs rose steeply . |