Example sentences of "have little [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , if transit passage could be held applicable to third parties as a general rule of international law of navigation rights through strategic communication routes , the United States has little to lose by refusal to become a party to the Convention . |
| 2 | In recent years people have found it increasingly difficult to accept the conventional doctrines of Christianity , but a visionary like Julian penetrates the cerebral crust of the religious experience , which has little to do with logic and reason , to reach its core . |
| 3 | This sliding-scale approach might still have relevance to the Post Office Act , on which that case turned , but it has little to do with obscenity as defined in the 1959 Act . |
| 4 | Clearly , group formation and aggression by contemporary human beings has little to do with hunting and survival . |
| 5 | Subjectivity is a daily pitfall but I seem to observe that being ‘ earthed ’ has little to do with intellect , class , fortune or even belief . |
| 6 | At least the up-to-date cost accountant has plenty of ammunition to fire at the chief executive who insists that accounting has little to do with strategy . |
| 7 | He is Turkish as well , but the common nationality of his workforce has little to do with solidarity and more to do with limiting the risk of being caught . |
| 8 | That ratio has little to do with stewardship , being concerned with indicating the success or failure of the business during the year . |
| 9 | While the Introduction has little to say on language specifically , what is said conforms to this broad sense of English . |
| 10 | THOSE who feel Lord Arran has little to say about agriculture must now change their opinion of the Minister who has also to look after health matters in the province . |
| 11 | Eco has little to say about meaning but is aware of some of the problems of pursuing it : |
| 12 | The literature on bereavement , even that of Parkes ( 1986 ) , which focuses on widows , has little to say about bereavement amongst very old people . |
| 13 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |
| 14 | The plaintiff has little to gain by delay . |
| 15 | But the workshop results suggest that South Africa has little to gain by culling seals to reduce their biological interactions with commercial fisheries . |
| 16 | This ensures that he or she has little to reveal under interrogation . |
| 17 | Individuals who could be held responsible for the negligence in question ( for example , if it were an audit , those who were in charge of it , and perhaps the head of the audit function in the firm , and even its managing director ) might still be sued individually ( managing partners may feel as a result that they personally would have little to gain from incorporation ) . |
| 18 | They feel useless being no longer productive workers and yet having little to do at home . |
| 19 | The whole sado-masochistic scene seemed to her to have little to do with love . |
| 20 | This ‘ hypersplenic hyposplenism ’ suggested that in this group splenic function had little to do with spleen size . |
| 21 | He had played steadily enough and the fact that the Lions were able to outwit the All Blacks in that series had little to do with Mains ' ability . |
| 22 | Leese considered the initials of the organization to be unfortunate , and argued quite logically that it was misnamed , as its platform had little to do with fascism . |
| 23 | Hyam believes that the sexual activities of imperialist manpower have been erased from the historical record , or else written about in stereotyped ways which had little to do with reality , and that we are therefore left with an incomplete understanding of the colonial experience . |
| 24 | The simple demand for the vote , the be-all and end-all of most suffragettes , was truly seen by McAllister as a minor step compared with relieving poor women 's social and economic disabilities , a measure which had little to do with suffrage . |
| 25 | In fact the darkness , the whispers , the creaking floorboards , the footsteps and the thought of a stalking murderer had had their usual effect on her : a state of fear that had little to do with pleasure . |
| 26 | That ‘ event ’ had little to do with science although it did provide us with one or two technological tales , albeit mostly grim ones . |
| 27 | It had little to do with science in society , and writers Lawrence Moore and Robert Young seemed slightly self-conscious about this , using the words ‘ science ’ and ‘ technology ’ as much as possible in relation to management , roller coasters et al to compensate . |
| 28 | At breakfast she found no difficulty in putting on a bright face , directing most of her attention to Matt , who , for some unknown reason , appeared to be in a gloomy mood , and who had little to say in response to her cheerful remarks . |
| 29 | He reserved his deadliness for dealing with opponents in his own party , and had little to spare for use against the MacDonald governments . |
| 30 | In this way , if caught , the smugglers had little to lose in way of investment , it also made the job of our investigators more difficult , especially when often a foreign national would charter a UK vessel . |