Example sentences of "do little [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His flashy marketing campaigns have done little for the success of Midland 's new products . |
| 2 | Until recently he believed that ‘ the magnificent State of Britain' had done little for the Science upon which her wealth , power and very existence depended ; except to provide security and freedom in a country its citizens could be proud of , and this had indeed been enough . |
| 3 | Putting up posters and shouting slogans about democracy had done little in the past to achieve the students ' goal but in 1980 , some believed that substantial change could be achieved if the limited opportunities presented by the Gengshen reforms were seized . |
| 4 | The Single European Act , fully in force from 1992 , will be a bonus for business but will do little for the rest of us . |
| 5 | On a hot day the engine-out rate of climb did little for the blood pressure . |
| 6 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 7 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 8 | This remarkable volte face did little for the president 's public reputation , was the cause of much scathing comment in the media and , not surprisingly , a poll revealed that 86 per cent of Americans , ‘ had no confidence in the ability of the President to manage the economy ’ . |
| 9 | In 1963 , as now , the BBC did little in the way of in-house prop building due to the time and resources required for these highly specialised operations . |
| 10 | Your mag promotes and encourages all this ; reading an analysis of Joe Satriani 's playing , for example , probably does little for the confidence of most readers ( I myself found it quite stretching at first ! ) . |