Example sentences of "they have little " in BNC.
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| 1 | He becomes crucially aware that they have little need of any critical analysis , for as Benyon ( ibid. 23 ) goes on to point out , |
| 2 | ‘ We hope very strongly that the attitude of China 's authorities will be adequate to change the significant percentage of people who seem to say they have little confidence . ’ |
| 3 | But the constraints on their existence implied by operating from open waste land or shacks have created a situation where they have little security , and the owners of such enterprises are discouraged from reinvesting a high proportion of their profits back into the business . |
| 4 | Unlike habitation sites , they have little domestic refuse and , unlike cemetery sites , they do not normally contain burials . |
| 5 | Golf course get the thumbs down — the study says they have little to do with farm tourism — and further farm museums , rare breed centres and farm attractions which need a large number of visitors to service a high capital investment should not be encouraged . |
| 6 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 7 | The banks will bargain hard although they have little choice but to accept a restructuring . |
| 8 | Bradford Northern , one of the uncertain six , will try to ruin Wigan 's championship party this afternoon but , after their 71–10 thrashing by the champions in the Silk Cut Cup semi-final two weeks ago , they have little hope of playing any other role than that of sacrificial lambs . |
| 9 | Though they have little knowledge of the strength of the Irish Students England are confident they will be able to take another step towards their overall target and should it develop into an open game on the well-drained Blundellsands pitch they can expect few problems . |
| 10 | While sexually mature males may remain in their natal troops they have little access to females , unless they are of especially high dominance . |
| 11 | They are expensive and share many of the disadvantages of hypochlorites although they are more acceptable as they have little smell or taste . |
| 12 | Cellars are notorious for damp , and for wet and dry rot , because often they have little or no ventilation . |
| 13 | Thus at present they have a gene that controls limb development , but they have little idea what its role is . |
| 14 | These may be very useful in certain domains , but they have little to do with that actual flowing movement of life which concerns us deeply and intimately . |
| 15 | It is hard , after a lifetime of sharing disappointments and problems with a parent , to find that they are no longer capable of sustaining conversation , that their memory is failing or that they have little interest in things outside their own immediate situation . |
| 16 | Loss of the loved one can raise the same intensity of emotion : a sense of betrayal , hatred of the betrayer , extreme jealousy of a rival-feelings over which a person may believe they have little or no control . |
| 17 | Largely preoccupied by a sense of not being able to win , they have little sense of commitment to themselves , let alone to a person of the opposite sex . |
| 18 | They have little interest in potatoes but have a great regard for brassicas of all descriptions : cabbages , kale , sprouts , cauliflowers , and the like . |
| 19 | They have little in common beyond having a membership consisting of some of the states of Europe ( different in each case ) and will be considered separately . |
| 20 | Blatant sexist readings are on the decline , and where they still exist they have little effect because of the successful appropriation by women of their own discourse . |
| 21 | What happens very often here is that participants are inspired by the social and professional intensity of the event but find that they have little to carry home with them except a heady sense of general enlightenment which is often quickly dispersed on its contact with reality . |
| 22 | Non-executive directors can only make a limited contribution to a company given that they have little knowledge of its day-to-day working . ’ |
| 23 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 24 | Although people 's institutional knowledge of the comparative costliness of different types of credit is fairly accurate ( in terms , say , of knowing that banks are a cheaper source of loans than HP firms ) , they have little idea of the actual cost of credit , and of how this varies from type to type or firm to firm . |
| 25 | After this they have little in common . |
| 26 | They share one common characteristic : they have little power to challenge the authorities . |
| 27 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 28 | They have little or no sexual contact and only rarely do they express their feelings for each other . |
| 29 | This means that she can throw out the eggs of her nest mates , but they have little chance to throw out hers . |
| 30 | Women are especially vulnerable to HIV in societies where they have little or no control over their sex lives . |