Example sentences of "had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the time I had little knowledge of dogs . |
| 32 | Sadly the performance record of OTC stocks had little reassurance to offer him . |
| 33 | Erm we had little pork sausage rolls pork pies cut up erm this is what |
| 34 | The grandparents , whom Williams referred to as ‘ mum ’ and ‘ the old man ’ , were , according to him , uneducated and barely literate ; they had little comprehension of the values , demands and functions of education and , as a consequence , were unable to make any contribution to the child 's involvement at school . |
| 35 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 36 | He had little schooling , and went to work at the age of twelve , apprenticed to an uncle in a chemist and druggist business in Chesterfield . |
| 37 | He genuinely had little concern with making money for its own sake , but he could not fail to be infected by Marjorie 's martyred attitude to their shortage of cash , and he resented being reminded of it by Kegan 's sleekness . |
| 38 | She had been in the post for only seven months when the inquiry started , had little public or professional support , and there was unlikely to be any backlash to her being blamed . |
| 39 | He had little doubt that if anything went wrong Buckmaster would let him drop over the cliff . |
| 40 | Sir Denys had little doubt that the coming months seem set to be as difficult as 1991 was for most countries , ‘ It would not be prudent at this stage to attempt to predict when recovery might begin ’ , he said , ‘ But when it comes , it is very likely to be gradual ’ . |
| 41 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 42 | Celia disliked Georgina intensely , and she had little doubt of her guilt . |
| 43 | From what was said , and the callers ' apparent familiarity with his work in Cyprus , Coleman had little doubt that they were confidential informants of the Drug Enforcement Administration . |
| 44 | They had little doubt as to the contents of the sacks and their prompt action in jumping the men was vindicated when the sacks were found to contain large quantities of spirits and cigarettes . |
| 45 | Perhaps there was another route he would choose — after meeting the scribe again , Huy had little doubt who the rich client at the City of Dreams had been , and knew why his profile , fleetingly glimpsed , had seemed familiar . |
| 46 | ‘ As a nurse , I could not understand why she did not directly approach the hospitals concerned , for at that time I had little doubt that she would have received informed , prompt , honest replies . ’ |
| 47 | That questions and recriminations would creep in later she had little doubt , but for the moment she simply wanted to shut out the rest of the world , to step back into that circle of magic they had created , first in the pool , then in the factory car park when they had somehow made the rest of the world go away . |
| 48 | That David 's strange behaviour had something to do with Jennifer she had little doubt , so whatever would a meeting between them bring forth ? |
| 49 | She had little doubt that she had allowed her heart to rule her head , and , much as she had enjoyed what had happened between her and David , could she ultimately trust a man who had treated her sister the way he had ? |
| 50 | He had little doubt that there was any danger of that happening and the MPs knew their bluff was called . |
| 51 | He had little conviction that he could fulfil this role properly , his own experience of being fathered having been so grossly inadequate . |
| 52 | But they had little cushioning effect . |
| 53 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 54 | We had little scope for passion . ’ |
| 55 | In the Commons debate a sponsor of Radical Alternatives to Prison , Robert Kilroy-Silk , said that penal reformers ( he mentioned the Howard League , NACRO , and the ACPS ) were in favour of partly suspended sentences , as he was himself , on the grounds that the length of the sentence had little deterrent effect . |
| 56 | But whereas integrationist sympathies were widespread in many continental states , they had little purchase in Britain , especially within the ruling Labour Party . |
| 57 | However , she had little patience with those non-conforming ministers who continually moaned and complained about their losses and dangers , and , ‘ would have no man be a minister that had not so much self denial as to lay down all at the feet of Christ , and count no cost of suffering too dear to serve Him . ’ |
| 58 | The contrast between the mondaine world of Beatrice Hastings and the ghetto of Jewish painters from Eastern Europe could hardly have been greater , and Beatrice had little patience for Modigliani 's gauche , unsophisticated friends . |
| 59 | Stirling had little patience with the planning staffs ' obsession with large set-piece armoured battles in the desert . |
| 60 | He was meticulous in his use of words and had little patience with careless speech or syntax . |