Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technically , it was an epiphytic bromeliad , although not knowing this made very little difference to the plant . |
| 2 | On the principle question in the case , the concensus of the judges was that the authorities against the existance of the defence were irresistable , but perhaps this payed too little regard to the paralell rule for the priviledge of self-defence . |
| 3 | The perceived attitudes of teachers seemed to convince them that the school system was ‘ rigged ’ : some saw very little point in trying . |
| 4 | The fusion of the figure and its surroundings on which the Italians insisted was something that the Cubists had already achieved , and although the Futurists went further and added that the painting must be a synthesis of things seen and things remembered , visible and invisible , this had very little effect on the means employed . |
| 5 | A certain amount of the Stuart expansion had been carried out by chartered companies , and the enemies of James II showed relatively little regard for the rights laid down in these charters . |
| 6 | After this Louis XIV spent relatively little money on his navy ; he had to defend his frontiers against the threat of invasion by land through Belgium , and naval supremacy was always for him a secondary consideration . |
| 7 | To appreciate his achievement , we must bear in mind that in his time Europe in general and Germany in particular had remarkably little awareness of Greece or Greek culture as distinctive entities , and insufficient enthusiasm for things Greek ( as opposed to things Greco-Roman ) to feel such unawareness as a deficiency . |