Example sentences of "appear to have [verb] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Africa , South America and Australia appear to have contributed little or nothing to the pedigree cat world . |
| 2 | The therapeutic possibilities of the inhibitory substance appear to have received little attention from Fleming . |
| 3 | The authorities appear to have made little effort to identify the perpetrators of any of these attacks . |
| 4 | However , this failure appears to have made little difference to the fortunes of the Labour Party . |
| 5 | Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business . |
| 6 | The recent introduction of comprehensive schools appears to have made little difference to the kind of schooling that children from different socio-economic backgrounds receive . |
| 7 | He was detained in Newgate prison in Dublin in 1797 , but he appears to have taken little part in the 1798 rebellion and was not among the state prisoners incarcerated after its suppression . |
| 8 | It does look , after all , as if respectability posed the greatest of all threats to the survival of Nonconformity ; the son and grandson of Baptist believers as he was , cousin to a family of ardent devotees of the Worship Street Chapel , William Charles appears to have paid little more than passing lip-service to the cause . |
| 9 | The humanities , on the other hand , regard a concern with moral issues as central to their meaning ; philosophers , historians , literary critics , consistently make explicit their interest in morality-while the study of philosophy , history or English appears to have had little impact on the lives of the mass of people . |
| 10 | However , it is significant that modern physics appears to have had little impact on their philosophy of physics ; they still construct it as a subject which is capable of revealing absolute truths . |
| 11 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 12 | Years of social discourse appeared to have done little to relieve his prevailing impression of awkwardness and unease , his inability to small-talk . |