Example sentences of "but [det] [verb] little [noun] " in BNC.

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1	It is all very well to say that the production of a new rose plant is a skilled job and best left to specialists , but that takes little account of the satisfaction to be derived and enjoyed by trying something difficult , and being successful .
2	Literally translated demi-caractère means ‘ half character ’ , but that gives little understanding of its implications in ballet .
3	The detainee can make a formal complaint after release , but this offers little solace to the aggrieved individual .
4	When Paisley was later told about the woman 's remark , he immediately condemned it and rebuked her , but this made little impression on the basic loyalties of the audience .
5	There was a prison hospital with twelve beds , but this had little equipment and only basic drugs .
6	A small number of Palestinian workers were permitted to enter Israel from Feb. 10 , but this had little impact on the mounting economic problems in the occupied territories .
7	The correction of the rates by logistic regression slightly increased the width of the confidence intervals , but this had little effect on our conclusions .
8	But this cuts little ice on the Hill , and not just with Mr Miller 's men .
9	The slope for women in large firms is much steeper but this has little effect on the average because so few women actually work continuously in large firms .
10	The Jacobites used a simple cipher in private correspondence — a reference to Frederick being attached to Patricia , for example , meant that Mar was still loyal to James — but this presented little difficulty to the British code-breakers , as one Jacobite warned another :
11	Towards the top of the hill he made two bad jumping errors but these made little difference to his progress , and with Fifty Dollars More falling at the final open ditch only Combs Ditch looked to have any chance of getting in the way of a Dickinson clean sweep .

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