Example sentences of "little [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the previous decade WEA classes and courses were arranged on an intermittent basis at Hoddesdon , Letchworth , St. Albans , Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City but little had been possible in the organisation of interest or to sustain a social movement in the county . |
| 2 | Over Malta on 7th. little had been seen , although the A.A. claimed two Ju88s shot down . |
| 3 | Little had been accomplished before the emergence of the new Government 's proposals for the treatment of young offenders , spelling the end of approved schools . |
| 4 | They had been together all morning , but little had been said . |
| 5 | Little had been said about the other regional aspect represented by unemployment and economic decline in the Special Areas . |
| 6 | Everything in it was old and shabby ; little had been chosen by Edward himself . |
| 7 | In actual fact little had been written about Cubism by April 1910 , but Boccioni 's work of 1911 shows some indirect Cubist influence , and he was certainly in correspondence with Severini , who , though as yet little touched by the movement , was a friend of both Picasso and Braque . |
| 8 | So little had been released from that tight grip , and there was so little natural affinity between them that , for all the hours they had spent in this room together , they remained strangers to one another . |
| 9 | The LDC category had first been given prominence nine years earlier , by the September 1981 UN Conference on Least Developed Countries in Paris [ see p. 31352 ] , when the UN had drawn up its list of ( then 31 ) LDCs , but little had been achieved in implementing a Substantial New Programme of Action adopted by that meeting . |