Example sentences of "had little [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority were individuals doing their national service , who had little enthusiasm for that , let alone for a task of this type in this perishingly cold country . |
| 2 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , those who were already established had little sympathy for this proposed redirec-tion of resources . |
| 4 | The history of health in Africa has shown often that medical research in isolation from its social context had little benefit for indigenous peoples . |
| 5 | Coming almost certainly from a middle-class or working-class home , once his seminary days were over he had little opportunity for further education . |
| 6 | He was uninterested in politics and , like the other members of his family , had little time for sectarian prejudice . |
| 7 | With the exception of Hitchcock , whom they worshipped , they had little time for accepted and acclaimed directors , finding more value in the more commercial movies of , for instance , Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh . |
| 8 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 9 | With entire responsibility for teaching and discipline , Hill had little time for original work ; but his edition ( 1816 ) of Artis Logicae Compendium by Henry Aldrich [ q.v. ] proved an acceptable university textbook , reaching a sixth edition in 1850 . |
| 10 | After leaving the Institute , where he retained a small laboratory which he visited at weekends , Butler 's administrative duties were so heavy that he had little time for mycological research . |
| 11 | First , though , there is a need to say something more general about Adorno 's position , in the context of the approach outlined in the previous chapter — particularly in light of the fact that Adorno evidently had little time for popular music ! |
| 12 | One reason , no doubt , was that he had little tolerance for real pagan myths or for naïve mythicizers . |
| 13 | He hated Tories in general and had little respect for most of the Tory leadership , although some he did respect , primarily Harold Macmillan . |
| 14 | Some composers — Beethoven was one of them — had little gift for vocal writing . |
| 15 | They were n't all scientists , in fact we had little use for most of them . |