Example sentences of "see little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) was reported to see little hope of repatriating some 95,000 Sierra Leonean refugees trapped in northern Liberia by the latest intensification of the war . |
| 2 | There are those who would tell you that BMW 's reputation for first-class finish has been on thin ice for some time but , until now , we 've seen little evidence to substantiate the claim . |
| 3 | Clark claimed to have seen little damage to military targets but maintained that residential areas and hospitals and other civilian facilities had been severely attacked , resulting in heavy civilian casualties . |
| 4 | Open beach marks at Dyffryn and Talybont have seen little angling activity with just the odd dab and rockling . |
| 5 | Marginally quick-tempered , he sees little sense in having to field a barrage of questions when he might feel that his score tells its own story . |
| 6 | One correspondent , however , sees little evidence today of an agreed understanding of what constitutes monastic music or even that the music of the monastic tradition is above all the vehicle for its prayer . |
| 7 | But Mr Huismans sees little sign yet of a consumer-led recovery in the American economy giving a significant boost to Courtaulds ' operations there . |
| 8 | The firm sees little demand for Unix front-ends yet . |
| 9 | The firm sees little demand for Unix front-ends yet . |
| 10 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 11 | The Bundesbank sees little virtue in surrendering power to a European central bank . |
| 12 | From the point of view of the buyer , general exclusion clauses are obviously less popular , and , in general he sees little need for them to protect his own position . |
| 13 | He sees little difference between acting on stage and screen : ‘ It seems to be the same internal life that you try to discover in a character and the way you go about it is the same . |
| 14 | Indeed he sees little place for ‘ so-called culture ’ surrounding an Olympics . |
| 15 | Zeta has a K-type spectrum , but even with × 20 I can see little colour in it . |
| 16 | However the slow pace of implementation and the problems experienced by local authorities in planning , managing and funding community care means that in practice many family carers will see little change or increased help for a long time . |
| 17 | Yet we can see little sign of the central powerhouse at optical wavelengths , because a dark swathe of obscuring dust lies right across the galaxy ( Figure 3A ) . |
| 18 | On the other hand they could see little merit in a policy based upon a rules approach , since rules are inevitably arbitrary and lacking in any underlying economic logic . |
| 19 | He was so close that she could see little gold flecks in the brown of his eyes . |
| 20 | They were supposed to heighten our perceptions , but really I could see little difference between my ordinary vision of life , which was fantastic enough , and what the pills apparently produced , mainly a nervous sleeplessness shot through with incoherent babblings and bursts of laughter alternating with floods of tears . |
| 21 | Glancing from the image to the face , Mair could see little difference . |
| 22 | As he had seen no change in her , so she could see little difference in him . |
| 23 | Some might see little comparison between the systematic gangsterism of the IRA and the inadequates who , unless appearances deceive , expect to prevent the privatisation of Scottish water by posting letterbombs to the Scottish Office and Anglian Water . |
| 24 | The monks and nuns , virtually pensioned-off gentry , could see little future except death in resisting the royal will and threw in their lot with a change that would guarantee them reasonable security . |
| 25 | Employees who are already earning good money will see little point in spending their vouchers . |
| 26 | In fact , a lot of them could see little point in the movie at all . |
| 27 | The late '60s saw little success , but Edwards never really sought stardom . |
| 28 | Many saw little utility in teaching reading rather than instilling labour discipline more directly . |
| 29 | Chairman James Unruh said the decision had been painful for Unisys , but that the company saw little choice . |
| 30 | In the second half we saw little ball and we had to defend for our lives . |