Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus if at this moment someone said something to me about " that ugly little statue on your fireplace " and accompanied this with an appropriate gesture , I should have little difficulty in identifying the object to which he is referring , but identification may not be so easy if a reference is made to an object that is not accessible to immediate perception , or of which I have no knowledge whatever . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll have little chance of forgetting all about Knockglen considering I 'll be coming home every night , ’ said Benny glumly . |
| 3 | I suppose some people who are in receipt of social benefits might say their benefits are very , very small , come nowhere near covering the true cost to them and their families are having to foot the bill for a lot of what 's done , and sometimes , when maybe their allowances are cut by a little bit , they might think ‘ erm well perhaps if the Oxfordshire County Councillors had cut a little bit of their attendance allowances maybe I could have little bit more ’ . |
| 4 | oh the timetable which I as well will , will erm , would be about two months , the first step has to be taken by the defendant because we do n't know yet whether they are prepared to oppose the structure , and if so , what sort of structure they would be prepared to oppose , erm , if and when , er a formal offer of structure came through , I would have little doubt that we could instruct accountants and get a response within a matter of weeks , sometimes one has to if they 're doing an commercial structure within a week or so because the offer is only open for ten days |
| 5 | And this is of course , as if I agree with the view that you expressed yesterday in a general context , although it was made specifically then in relation to one village , any recommendation I make in relation to that village , if it is based on the general principle , must apply by analogy also to Skelton , and I would have little choice but to recommend to the councils that they may wish or indeed they should , reconsider this question of washing-over or insetting elsewhere . |
| 6 | These days , of course , now that I am a grown woman , I would have little problem with saying I was feeling ill and suggesting we take a break for a few minutes . |
| 7 | Say the following sentences up to time and you may have little difficulty in including the missing words shown by the dots . |
| 8 | During your undergraduate studies you should have little difficulty in tracing the information that you need , since most will be contained in well-known textbooks . |
| 9 | She recalled her resolve to be friendly , therefore she laughed as she said , ‘ You 'll have little trouble from me in that respect . |
| 10 | She need have little fear of her group getting lost in categorisation . |
| 11 | She need have little fear of her group getting lost in categorisation . |
| 12 | And she would have little illusion about being able to save anything from the low wages she would receive from any of the available jobs . |
| 13 | If you were a hermit or even a monk , you would have little trouble indeed in implementing it . |
| 14 | Unless she sees a local advertisement , she will have little knowledge of job opportunity and if she has moved into the district from elsewhere , she may have difficulty in assessing the employment prospects . |
| 15 | unc Once you have learnt this method you will have little difficulty solving the following equation . |
| 16 | If you can learn how to handle the lecture you will have little difficulty when you come to meet seminars . |
| 17 | If you already operate a conventional publications production system then you will have little problem in converting those existing skills onto the new technology . |
| 18 | Sometimes , alas , you will have little control over the matter . |
| 19 | Clearly , should this occur , you will have little option but to wash the dog again . |
| 20 | You 've noticed that Healthmaster does not have erm , just smoker , non-smoker rates , because if we actually just simply mention dwelled on that perhaps we should 've little bit longer . |
| 21 | The Gormenghast passage [ 19 ] represents a fairly extreme position on the scale of opacity , and when we turn , in the following chapters , to a more detailed study of stylistic values , we shall have little occasion to insist on the distinction we have made between the study of style in terms of foregrounding , and that in terms of stylistic variants . |
| 22 | If the arrivals of comets in the inner Solar System were totally haphazard we would have little reason to believe such ideas . |
| 23 | How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ? |
| 24 | However , most new shareholders have only a small stake in the companies in which they have invested , and in reality they may have little influence upon the way that the companies are run ( see , for example , the claims of John Scott pp. 57–62 ) . |
| 25 | Governors have an increasing responsibility for schools they serve , very much like a board of directors of a public company but , unlike company directors , they may have little specialist knowledge or previous experience of management . |
| 26 | If staff find themselves having to implement policy which they have no part in making , they may have little commitment to it and may in the longer term become alienated . |
| 27 | They must have little self-respect . |
| 28 | Before God , they must have little work to do . ’ |
| 29 | Intel needs to do some stroking among this class of customer even though Intel defenders claim the P5 schematics designers are using in the absence of silicon are so exact they should have little trouble getting up and running and out the door once the chips are delivered . |
| 30 | When Jonathan Malcolm and his girlfriend met they could have little idea of the trouble which lay in store . |