Example sentences of "[noun sg] have had little " in BNC.
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| 1 | On active citizenship Labour has had little to say , although Labour spokespersons haves given support to the general idea of civic responsibility and the encouragement of a sense of community , which can be traced back to the nineteenth century traditions of civic virtue and community solidarity which are strong in the Labour party . |
| 2 | One other feature of Richards 's work has had little impact in this country , but a much greater impact , as we shall see , in the United States : the demand that criticism be founded on theory . |
| 3 | Certainly the MoD thinking on this issue has had little effect in delaying delivery of the four frigates . |
| 4 | Even by the modest standards of the Supreme Court , American obscenity law has had little measurable effect since 1973 . |
| 5 | If this seems too severe , there is no denying that the development of the industrial co-operative sector has had little reason over the years to feel grateful to the Consumer Movement . |
| 6 | He understood that the boy had had little formal education until Edouard took him under his wing . |
| 7 | It appears that the Gulf War has had little effect on exports to this area , although it should be added that much of the conflict post dated the period covered by the survey . |
| 8 | A Coopers & Lybrand report to the Government on the possibilities of privatisation was delivered in summer 1988 , but since then the group has had little indication of what its fate might be . |
| 9 | Those developments in stylistics which have taken place recently such as the appropriation of discourse analysis , politeness theory and other aspects of pragmatics have had little impact on this book , although they could readily be subsumed under the heading " literary language " . |
| 10 | Most of them , however , 53 per cent , made other comments , generally to the effect that the person had had little to do with other residents : ‘ Her mind had gone so she was not able to socialise. , |
| 11 | In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow . |
| 12 | Wilks ( 1983 ) argues that linguistic theory has had little direct influence on parsing techniques . |
| 13 | The consumer has had little or no choice in the matter : without organic food widely available it has not been possible to choose to avoid creating nitrate pollution by avoiding conventionally grown crops ( in any case , organic farming can still create some nitrate pollution , see also below ) . |
| 14 | His as-yet unpublished review concludes that conservation has had little impact on overall energy policy . |
| 15 | In these conditions , the government has had little option but to accept the kinds of changes which the international financial agencies want . |
| 16 | The production of knitwear and of craft work in general has continued to increase in the Western Isles , although knitwear has had little success in Lewis and Harris . |
| 17 | ‘ The sales increase evident from the New Year has had little effect on margins and the key to the future is purchaser confidence . ’ |
| 18 | This occupation has had little influence on its size . |
| 19 | The history of welded sculpture in this century has had little influence on my work . |
| 20 | Edinburgh graduates in economic and social history have had little difficulty in entering a wide range of challenging and rewarding careers in such areas as financial , industrial and public management and administration , the media , and a range of research activities . |
| 21 | Usually , those who have espoused it as a goal have had little interest in the idea of equalizing all the pupils of a school or an educational system , or indeed all the people in a particular country . |
| 22 | Moreover , even when negotiations were opened , the principle of reciprocal bargaining introduced by the United States as a result of its own domestic legislation from the 1930s , meant that the LDC 's had little to bargain with . |
| 23 | Even if the person or family have had little contact with a religious organisation a minister may be willing to visit while the person is dying . |