Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serum pepsinogen I shows little response to eating . |
| 2 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 3 | So , in the short term I see little hope for the newcomer or success for the organic smallholder . |
| 4 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 5 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 6 | In the second half we saw little ball and we had to defend for our lives . |
| 7 | Indeed , in his immediate aim of regaining Normandy in order to retain England he had little choice : his survival depended on it . |
| 8 | As a man of honour he had little alternative but to accompany his friend to America . |
| 9 | Although the farmer expected his wife to cope , in many cases she had little preparation for the job . |
| 10 | From the corner of my eye I saw little Gino make his way over to the restaurant 's background music system . |
| 11 | Though at this point I paid little notice to them as he did not emphasise them . |
| 12 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 13 | While sexually mature males may remain in their natal troops they have little access to females , unless they are of especially high dominance . |
| 14 | Though in truth they had little need ; the last time we fought , they vanquished us easily … ’ |
| 15 | At Cambridge he showed little aptitude for study and tended to be diverted by horse-racing and other forms of gambling . |
| 16 | Once free of these troubles he wasted little time in turning his attention to England . |
| 17 | With examination questions you have little choice . |
| 18 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 19 | In individual cases catching criminals depended on the usually less than willing readiness of the village constables to act ; since they were chosen by vote annually from middling tradesmen and farmers they had little hope of dealing with many common incidents unless the rest of the community felt sufficiently outraged to support them . |
| 20 | When his friends the Barberini were obliged for political reasons to leave Rome in 1644 and settled in Paris he lost little time in entertaining them and the French Court with Italian operas . |
| 21 | In any event he had little time to give careful immediate consideration to the letter ; he merely wrote a short reply pressing Balfour to reconsider his position . |
| 22 | That David 's strange behaviour had something to do with Jennifer she had little doubt , so whatever would a meeting between them bring forth ? |
| 23 | In Magdalen 's communal life I took little part . |
| 24 | The great grey is one of the largest of the forest owls of Scandinavia , larger even than the snowy owl of the Arctic tundra , and one species we had little hope of finding unaided . |
| 25 | In a sense they had little alternative on account of Israel 's refusal to accept the return of the refugees and the refugees ' own outright refusal of resettlement . |
| 26 | But without several key players they had little chance against winners Leicestershire . |
| 27 | According to Mrs Jones they had little option in the circumstances but to allow her decision a ‘ chance to fail ’ . |
| 28 | Thus as a formal method of scrutiny it has little value . |
| 29 | As Trade and Industry Secretary he had little trade and little industry to look after , continued the rebuker . |
| 30 | 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 . |