Example sentences of "but [verb] little [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sought collaboration from various colleagues , including Marjory Stephenson ( see Chapter 8 ) in the nearby Department of Biochemistry , but made little progress before his departure from Cambridge to fill successively the chairs of pathology at Sheffield in 1932 and Oxford in 1935 . |
| 2 | Members of Iraqi opposition groups in exile met in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , at end-February , but made little progress in overcoming their differences regarding the future of Iraq or plans to topple the regime of President Saddam Hussein . |
| 3 | He had a brilliant technical mind but found little time for people . |
| 4 | Therefore , the Unfair Contract Terms Act is helpful as far as contracts for hardware are concerned but has little relevance for software contracts . |
| 5 | Contrariwise , left sided lobectomy affects abstract words but has little effect on recall of concrete words ( Jones-Gotman and Milner , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | Waggoner supports the first theory , but has little time for the whiners . |
| 7 | Mr Houghton has come across protests , but has little time for their case or their tactics . |
| 8 | A young probationary teacher and a student-teacher were also available for some periods of " fringe help , mostly supervisory " ( op. " cit. : 5 ) , but played little part in the planning discussions . |
| 9 | This too , however , must be seen as a presentation of the lives of human beings , which is useful perhaps for taxation purposes but bears little resemblance to the real world . |
| 10 | Frodo , after all , is in contact with the Ring nearly all the time , but shows little sign of being corrupted . |
| 11 | The settlement houses were as active as before but showed little sign of expansion , indeed Toynbee Hall found it increasingly difficult to attract residents . |
| 12 | A local newspaper has suggested that Indonesians tend to waver between extremes of toleration and banning , but give little thought to the middle ground — restricting becaks to well-defined areas of the city under supervision and control . |
| 13 | Fifty years after the publication of l'Etranger , Geoff Dyer , visits Algeria , where Albert Camus was born and raised , but finds little trace of his ghost |
| 14 | He longed for the chance to talk to each of them in private , but saw little hope of it . |
| 15 | In the 1656–8 Parliament , as a member for Surrey , he was active in committees but took little part in the debates . |
| 16 | She had also read about old people 's homes that ruthlessly exploited their pensioners : unscrupulous proprietors grabbed all they could squeeze from the social services but gave little back to the residents ; they cut corners on staff , food , laundry , and amenities and added to their profits by pocketing the difference between their sparse expenditures and the sums they actually received . |
| 17 | Inventories and investment in new capital goods are treated by flexible accelerator processes from the demand side but play little role in supply ; |
| 18 | The Boer War brought problems concerning children into greater prominence but forced little action from the government . |
| 19 | A university steeped in classical , historical , and literary traditions was not unfriendly to science but had little awareness of the growing cost of high level scientific research , and even , perhaps , in some quarters reservations about its importance . |
| 20 | Britain 's first application was tabled in august , just after the Kuwait crisis , but had little effect on Defence policy at the time , because negotiations were relatively short-lived . |
| 21 | The Presbyterians drifted into Unitarianism whose rational approach attracted the ministers and the merchants but had little appeal to the poor ; there was no ‘ enthusiasm ’ about it . |
| 22 | This provides an added potential benefit to traffic travelling along the main routes by reducing the number of locations where this is in conflict with turning traffic , but provides little control over speeds once traffic has penetrated the residential area . |
| 23 | There is hardly an area in the diocese where the scourge of unemployment is not biting hard , and our parishes have to do what they can for those who not only have no work , but see little prospect of employment in the future . |
| 24 | The pursuers were keeping up as best they could but held little hope of catching him , though at the first fence on the second circuit — the seventeenth in the race — Red Rum could be seen to be keeping on gamely . |
| 25 | More usually , first time climbers in the alps are aware of the technique 's importance , but have little idea of how to apply it effectively on different types of terrain . |
| 26 | Their survey found that forty per cent of students have tried drugs … but have little idea of the risks . |
| 27 | Externalisation : Family members , like the primary sufferers , blame all manner of people , places and things for the problem caused by primary addictive disease but have little insight into their own condition . |
| 28 | Mutations at p cause a reduction of eumelanin ( black-brown ) pigment and altered morphology of black pigment granules ( eumelanosomes ) , but have little effect on pheomelanin ( yellow-red ) pigment . |
| 29 | An accelerated loss of NO 2 through aerosol chemistry is therefore likely to increase the rate of ozone reduction in autumn , but have little effect in spring when ozone losses will be dominated by heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric clouds in the lower stratosphere . |
| 30 | For example , Regional Railways still bears the responsibility for a clutch of rural services , lifelines for local communities but offering little scope for expansion or profitability . |