Example sentences of "makes little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A contrasting perspective , however , which makes little allowance for the effects of collective bargaining arrangements , is the study of democracy in British and US unions by Edelstein and Warner ( 1975 ) , and that for Mexico by Thompson and Roxborough ( 1982 ) . |
| 2 | It sinks , makes little mess and puts volume on your fish . |
| 3 | It is too concerned with fact and makes little reference to the question . |
| 4 | As Mr Imai 's analysis makes clear , the term keiretsu is used to refer to so many different kinds of industrial groups in Japan that generalising about all of them , and especially complaining about them as a group , makes little sense . |
| 5 | But , in the days of computer simulations , it surely makes little sense to crank the whole military-industrial complex up to producing a great fleet of YF-22s . |
| 6 | It makes little sense , for example , to require that children have a command of formal vocabulary before they are competent in technical vocabulary or vice versa . |
| 7 | It makes little sense to describe everyone over the age of 60 or 65 as ‘ the elderly population ’ , or ‘ old people ’ . |
| 8 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 9 | If Parliament wishes to create a specialist body to adjudicate in a given field , it makes little sense to have the decisions of that body reviewed by courts which have no such expertise . |
| 10 | His basic criticism of the system is that it makes little sense on the level of integrity because it makes only superficial sense of human desire and action and , therefore , only poor sense of human happiness . |
| 11 | There were , of course , flaws in Velikovsky 's reasoning : his imagined catastrophes were fanciful and , while it is all very well to derive clues from oral legends , it makes little sense to prefer these to properly researched results . |
| 12 | If so , it makes little sense to speak of ‘ authenticity ’ , though feminists might wish to celebrate women 's talk as an aspect of their resistance to oppression , a demonstration of skill and creativity with the limited materials at hand . |
| 13 | The test runs were also performed on a different machine so it makes little sense to compare timings . |
| 14 | Thus it makes little sense to refer to ‘ immigrant ’ communities ; what we now have are minority black British communities , that have already made a very substantial contribution to the growth and prosperity of the British economy . |
| 15 | More recently the Manpower Services Commission has strengthened links , as recognition grows that the division between ‘ education ’ and ‘ training ’ makes little sense in terms of meeting the needs of 16 to 19 year olds with disabilities and learning difficulties . |
| 16 | There is a sense in which standing is a preliminary question , separate from that of the substance and merits of the applicant 's case : standing rules determine entitlement to raise and argue the issue of illegality , and it makes little sense to say that entitlement to argue the merits of the case depends on whether one has a good case on the merits . |
| 17 | Thinking requires prior knowledge and learning — it makes little sense to reinvent the wheel — but too much emphasis on learning what has been the case can inhibit the growth of thinking about how to do things in unusual and interesting ways . |
| 18 | Such was Maitland 's theory , probably encouraged by the subsequent citation of the statute in later antipapal legislation ; but the statute of Carlisle makes little sense as a measure against a pope as obliging as Clement V , nor did the statute itself directly affect the papacy at all . |
| 19 | The best that I can say for a personality explanation is that it prevents executives from thinking about changing their behaviour , because it understandably makes little sense for them to undergo some kind of therapy . |
| 20 | For , it is argued , it makes little sense to worry about the possibility of repetitiveness and reduplication with regard to the world " in itself " if we can establish the historical uniqueness of particulars in relation to ourselves . |
| 21 | While it makes little sense to talk of criticism of the physical world , it makes every sense to talk of criticism turned on to the theories and concepts which science has produced to explain the external world , for they could certainly be other than they are.8 Unfortunately , we sometimes give the impression in science and technological education that the current models , terms and theories of science are given and have merely to be assimilated by students . |
| 22 | If such statutory clauses were ever intended to reflect the common law ( and this is not clear ) , the dichotomy drawn within them between the two heads of review makes little sense in light of the expansion of non-statutory review . |
| 23 | A person may belong to several different families during his life , and it makes little sense to regard him as changing identity on leaving or entering a nuclear family . |
| 24 | For instance , for a binary outcome variable , such as recurrence of disease or death , it makes little sense to display group means and CIs of explanatory variables such as age or dose . |
| 25 | The housing accommodation is mainly for those just above the care net of the local authority ; as a result the interior accommodation makes little concession to Georgian character , while previous neglect by the health board left little to restore . |
| 26 | Few of their recommendations help reduce the uplands conflict and their document makes little contribution to the uplands debate . |
| 27 | Joseph Gandy , who claims in 1805 that his designs originate ‘ in the humane desire of increasing the comforts and improving the condition of the Labouring Poor ’ , makes little provision for them . |
| 28 | Britain at present makes little use of Indian software expertise . |
| 29 | For example , Lawrence makes little use of pronouns , conjunctions , and auxiliaries ; and whereas the preposition of occurs twenty-nine times ( out of 397 words in all ) in the Conrad passage , it occurs only seven times ( out of 377 words ) in this one . |
| 30 | Such prodigality makes little appeal to professional scientists , whose instincts are to seek for a tight and economic understanding of the world . |