Example sentences of "they [vb base] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them demand little more than a ‘ view with a loo ’ — a place to park , a cup of tea and adequate toilet facilities . |
| 2 | Girls have got on through sleeping with a director , although usually they gain little more than temporary advantage . |
| 3 | Instead of government-rigged prices , they want little more than a reaffirmation of existing anti-dumping rules . |
| 4 | ‘ They show little interest in playing integrated cricket for teams in other leagues outside their own tournaments . |
| 5 | However , they show little evidence of what their problems actually are , and the phrase at the top does little to help ideas , describing only the slavery in sweated labour . |
| 6 | THE BRITISH wives of American servicemen stationed in the United Kingdom must pay the poll tax even though they receive little or no benefit from public services , the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday . |
| 7 | Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that in the Baltic states today the problems of lack of food and hunger are just as serious as , if not more serious than , those in the big cities of the former Soviet Union , but that they receive little attention ? |
| 8 | Indeed , they demonstrate little interest in or carry any vim into their academic work ; certainly nothing to compare with the avid desire for technique and expertise many take to the sports field . |
| 9 | For example , Ambrose , Harper and Pemberton 's ( 1983 ) small study of men after divorce found that just over half their sample relied on parents and/or siblings for support , but they give little detail about the type of support offered and it may well have been practical as much as emotional . |
| 10 | They give little thought to , what they have to do in a day and how long each task may take . |
| 11 | However , they give little information about the obstetric features of their cases , which might be quite important since matching is essential with such small numbers — for example , were the babies predominantly born during preterm labour or were they delivered electively for some obstetric complication ? |
| 12 | Little help for either view may be found in the accounts of the life of Fahreddin Acemi in the early sources , however , for particularly in regard to the critical period after the death of Molla Fenari they give little information . |
| 13 | They give little attention not only to how it is understood and experienced but also to the relations between bureaucracies and elected politicians . |
| 14 | They know little about what they are being asked to invest in , but they do believe that the Government 's determination to make the privatisation succeed will ensure that the water authorities are presented as a steal . |
| 15 | Most people fail to change because they know little about how to alter their behaviour . |
| 16 | They confess they know little about sex . |
| 17 | They tend to be time-wasting , inefficient , bureaucratic and mare platforms for inept five-second " experts to voice their opinions on subject " about which they know little . |
| 18 | To take an example , the observation that shareholders are on the whole behaving passively is consistent with the view that they know little about the firm and consequently leave everything to the manager . |
| 19 | Despite the firm figures in the community care plan ( see table ) , and social services managers ' confidence that they know the level of need in the city , he thinks they know little . |
| 20 | Members frequently make the comment that they know little or nothing about the structure of the IBOA , the decision-making process — in short how the IBOA operates . |
| 21 | Many clinicians are aware of this disadvantage even if they know little else about the technique and this contributes to clinical scepticism about its potential value as a diagnostic test . |
| 22 | They get little or no publicity for their efforts in this area — quite deliberately . |
| 23 | They practise their swing , but often they pay little attention to the situation at hand . |
| 24 | ( World-system theories are less relevant here because , as was pointed out in Chapter 1 , they pay little attention to the internal structure of national economies . ) |
| 25 | They gather little or no data of their own , but instead tend toward ad hominem charges against the scholarly consensus . |
| 26 | They do little or no teaching , so they are always available . |
| 27 | At best they furnish little more than an outline guide to the interpretation of the numerical data , a hint of the kind of hypothesis that needs to be tested . |
| 28 | But workers say few employees will volunteer for redundancy when they 've little chance of finding another job . |
| 29 | The workers say they 've little chance of getting another job . |
| 30 | They require little or no pruning or other attention , being remarkably resistant to disease , and are among the hardiest of all roses , thriving in conditions that would frighten the life out of most others . |