Example sentences of "they [verb] little [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They provide little assistance compared with the guidance given by the scheme of the Act itself . |
| 2 | The fact that they show little grief does not mean they are unmoved , but they may have been less inclined than are many women to see their relationship with their partner as the fulcrum of their lives . |
| 3 | This was why , having secured the legal codification of serfdom in 1649 , they showed little anxiety to consolidate an institutional mouthpiece at the centre and the Zemsky sobor faded away . |
| 4 | I think they employ little men to twist them together . |
| 5 | They had little money to spend once he 'd given up riding altogether but they shared love in abundance . |
| 6 | Hugging the ground , dodging clumps of splintered trees , hopping over hedges and walls and old fortified lines , Lambert led Kimberley and Killion so low that they had little opportunity to take their eyes off the terrain and look for balloons . |
| 7 | Congresses and committees did not scrutinize military funding and expenditure , and they had little opportunity to discuss military actions : the government did not announce the ventures in Chad and Uganda ; nor did they disclose training given to Chaddian , Palestinian and perhaps other freedom-fighters ( Tunisian , for example ) . |
| 8 | They had little chance to defend themselves at their court marshal , they were n't properly represented and there was very little right of appeal . |
| 9 | They had little chance to ask for the type of ‘ human rights ’ being demanded by students in the Beida posters . |
| 10 | But , after that , they had little time to spend together , little to say to one another . |
| 11 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 12 | They looked for abstract relationships between the different structures , but they had little incentive to ask what kind of circumstance might lead a species to change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 13 | While they remained relatively free to organise their own practices , they had little power to influence recruitment , selection , training and licensing . |
| 14 | But taking up their suggestions and using their materials was always optional ; and they had little power to change the general attitude of the public towards the ‘ non-academic ’ . |
| 15 | Kondratieff presented few data for growth from 1789 to 1814 from countries other than Britain because they had little growth to analyse . |
| 16 | They have little opportunity to use judgment or creativity . |
| 17 | This means that she can throw out the eggs of her nest mates , but they have little chance to throw out hers . |
| 18 | They share one common characteristic : they have little power to challenge the authorities . |
| 19 | Field men , as a result , are not only often in doubt as to whether they are observing a ‘ pollution ’ , they have little time to consider what action should be taken . |
| 20 | However severe the victimization or inequality of potential pay , they give no thought to having a lottery to determine positions on the coal face [ thc Durham tradition — of cavilling ] ; however their labor may be divided , they have little impulse to regulate production collectively or coordinate themselves in work groups to forestall management initiative . |
| 21 | He says that they have little information to go on , so the search has to be very wide . |
| 22 | By contrast , if energetic , ambitious and talented people from non-elite backgrounds can move through their own efforts into leadership positions in the key economic , political and administrative organizations , then they have little incentive to try to organize a collective effort with other non-elite groups to develop themselves as a counter-elite . |