Example sentences of "[verb] little [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever may seem the case to a man chasing a bus , running involves little work for most vertebrates . |
| 2 | However , this work apparently attracted little attention for several years . |
| 3 | The Labour Party , with considerable justification , saw itself as the " united front of the working class " and found little reason for joint activity with sectarian minorities on the Left . |
| 4 | Having no steady work means Texas has little money for such luxuries , anyway . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 7 | Although Kant has little respect for most previous moral philosophies , he has immense respect for the untutored moral insight ( if not practice ) of the ordinary man . |
| 8 | Stratification systems which provide little opportunity for social mobility may be described as ‘ closed ’ ; those with a relatively high rate of social mobility as ‘ open ’ . |
| 9 | However , such land is intended to be used by hikers and campers , many of whom show little respect for rare reptiles , in particular harmless water snakes , and even pangolins and pythons . |
| 10 | ‘ They have built little boxes for many years , but some volume builders use outside architects so the finger must be pointed at architects as well , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Above all it succeeds in escaping from criticisms of political economy approaches for being determinist and allowing little scope for political intervention , yet it continues to stress the importance of changes in the priorities and organization of capitalism . |
| 12 | While there is ample evidence of different goals being important at different stages of a person 's life , organizations make little allowance for these shifts . |
| 13 | Such an advanced social and administrative development is certainly apparent in seventh century Kentish law-codes ; but it is odd that these make little provision for economic transactions . |
| 14 | It seems that Napoleon III briefly entertained the idea of being crowned by the pope , as his uncle had been , but Pius IX showed little enthusiasm for this scheme . |
| 15 | Even when the incumbent on the throne showed little inclination for active policy-making , those who acted for the Tsar owed their power solely to proximity to the throne . |
| 16 | Gywnoro Jones claims the Conservatives have had little concern for these people . |
| 17 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 18 | An England grown fat on imperial tribute , its manufacturing industry relocated in the East , and its proletariat reduced to servicing the conspicuous consumption of idle rentiers , would provide little basis for democratic resistance to the power of the financial oligarchy . |
| 19 | Education has , as a consequence , become a highly charged subject , with the opposition arguing for greater state expenditure and closer attention to the needs of the majority of the population , while the government has shown little concern for improving state facilities and has repressed dissenting academic opinion . |
| 20 | Table 27 indicated little enthusiasm for any alternative forms of training other than the use of video and the provision of 3 or 4 day blocks . |
| 21 | Yet Congress seems to be getting little thanks for this from the voters . |
| 22 | I note that the report to which the hon. Gentleman refers says : ’ Labour , if elected , would have little scope for increased spending in the early years unless it were willing to increase taxes by more than it has indicated . ’ |
| 23 | An improvement in technology leading to increased efficiency in food production would have helped , but as yet there seems little evidence for this , unless intensification of field systems to open common fields is a manifestation of this . |
| 24 | Contemporary with Watt was Gaspard Monge , who in 1795 published his Géométrie descriptive ; although this book was not directly influential in Britain for some time ( British engineers having little sympathy for abstract mathematics ) , it formed the basis for modern engineering drawing . |
| 25 | Both Simon and Nigel had felt very uncomfortable , and the old bunch had been ‘ cliquey ’ , having little time for these less-affluent and state-educated newcomers . |
| 26 | Such situations allow little opportunity for innovative behaviour and may cause a great strain on the staff ; good planning and skilful leadership are required if innovative projects are not going to suffer too much . |
| 27 | Opinion polls in the North also find little enthusiasm for Irish unity at the moment . |
| 28 | The hereditary nature of social gradation offered little opportunity for social mobility . |
| 29 | Other dealers felt little sympathy for this director . |
| 30 | The majority saw little future for college-based sandwich courses , let alone the assessment of the industrial part . |