Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While you co-operate with them , the Iranian government will no doubt overlook your political leanings — and I 've little doubt they 'll be aware of them . |
| 2 | The British sign language we use here has many similarities to the sign language used in Scotland and England and I have little difficulty in talking to deaf people on the mainland . |
| 3 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |
| 4 | Celia disliked Georgina intensely , and she had little doubt of her guilt . |
| 5 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 6 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 7 | Congresses and committees did not scrutinize military funding and expenditure , and they had little opportunity to discuss military actions : the government did not announce the ventures in Chad and Uganda ; nor did they disclose training given to Chaddian , Palestinian and perhaps other freedom-fighters ( Tunisian , for example ) . |
| 8 | This was not a powerful cabal , and they had little expectation of early success . |
| 9 | But taking up their suggestions and using their materials was always optional ; and they had little power to change the general attitude of the public towards the ‘ non-academic ’ . |
| 10 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 11 | Back-bench MPs may be able to promote new policies through ‘ private members ’ Bills ' : These can not have direct financial implications for the government , and they have little chance of becoming law without government support . |
| 12 | His is a forlorn campaign , however , and he has little hope of success . |
| 13 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 14 | I did it willingly because I still loved his company so much , but I had little money . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry , but I have little sympathy for him . |
| 16 | She felt happier about Kathleen now that she knew that she had a champion in Ella , but she had little time to dwell on the O'Neills . |
| 17 | But we have little understanding of why this should be . |
| 18 | But they had little cushioning effect . |
| 19 | The soldiers grumbled on returning home to find their wives turned yellow by picric acid , but they had little redress . |
| 20 | They looked for abstract relationships between the different structures , but they had little incentive to ask what kind of circumstance might lead a species to change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 21 | Late nineteenth-century judicial reforms did streamline court procedure , but they had little effect on the way in which the administration of law and order was popularly perceived . |
| 22 | Thus at present they have a gene that controls limb development , but they have little idea what its role is . |
| 23 | This means that she can throw out the eggs of her nest mates , but they have little chance to throw out hers . |
| 24 | The provisions of the Act are complex , but they have little effect on media freedom . |
| 25 | The Marquis de Chamlay , his most important military adviser in his later years , had the title of Maréchal-Général des Logis ; but he had little experience of active service and was often employed on non-military tasks . |
| 26 | But he had little confidence of backing from a UK government which seemed to have no idea about the fishing industry . |
| 27 | But he had little reason yet to ask for a search warrant and Mr Simpson would go purple in the face and throw every legal book in his considerable library at him if he so much as tried . |
| 28 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 29 | But he has little power to compel , that is , by his person . |
| 30 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |