Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They used to advocate it for withdrawing heroin addicts — naturally they had little success . |
| 2 | So they have little screws to , you know , to go into the bone and little er delicate instruments which are highly developed instruments and manufactured by certain pattern . |
| 3 | Yeah like they got little metal plates |
| 4 | My case was more straightforward and quite honestly they had little choice but to uphold my appeal . |
| 5 | More than 75 million Soviet citizens lived outside their ‘ own ’ republic ( Kazakhstan alone contained more than 100 different nationalities ) , and very often they had little knowledge of the language of the republican majority . |
| 6 | and it being full of , of animals , most of them nasty animals , that would frighten you , like snakes and squirrels , I do n't know why squirrels , and , and like I had a picture in my mind , I ca n't remember whether it was the swimming baths I 'd been to , or whatever , like you know how they , quite often they have little ramps , or maybe they do n't , but the ones I 'd been to had ramps , stairs going up to them or whatever , |
| 7 | They practise their swing , but often they pay little attention to the situation at hand . |
| 8 | This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them . |
| 9 | Sometimes they have little bottles of stuff called Softwash on hotel shelves , which the guests take with them on leaving . |
| 10 | If you have failed to brief them properly then they have little option but to either put it on hold or send it back as it came out and let you sort it out . |
| 11 | By contrast , if energetic , ambitious and talented people from non-elite backgrounds can move through their own efforts into leadership positions in the key economic , political and administrative organizations , then they have little incentive to try to organize a collective effort with other non-elite groups to develop themselves as a counter-elite . |
| 12 | If they are — including public-sector trade unions , local government , local authority schools and housing , and various quangoes — then they attract little sympathy and people have to be liberated from them . |
| 13 | There they had little hope of meeting , wooing or wedding even the most hideous and unsuitable Englishwomen . |
| 14 | These clauses may be construed as ‘ no amendment or termination ’ clauses , for otherwise they have little substance ; all treaty provisions are binding unless terminated . |