Example sentences of "they [verb] little [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they got little trousers at the bottom . |
| 2 | They laid little emphasis on the message of the prophets . |
| 3 | Proposals such as these aroused considerable debate in the 1930s ( particularly on the question of whether , for every job vacated by an older worker , a new one would be created for a younger person ) , but they made little headway with the National Government . |
| 4 | They made little use of the youth clubs and other leisure facilities , other than as places to meet their mates . |
| 5 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 6 | If there were changes in the political leadership of the country , they made little impact on me . |
| 7 | but where if they sold little packets of sweets |
| 8 | Effective though such techniques may be when goat numbers are low , they make little impact on a large population . |
| 9 | make it clear ( pp. 45–6 ) that they attach little importance to the identification of such boundaries . |
| 10 | At this distance in time we simply do not know in detail how the clerks did their jobs , for there were no manuals of office procedure , and the functional tasks gradually evolved so that they bore little resemblance to their forebears . |
| 11 | They found little difficulty in agreeing with one another on the current dangers but an insuperable difficulty in communicating enough anxiety to Eastern and Western governments to make them seriously disarm . |
| 12 | Like Oyama , they found little difference in the acquisition of the phonetic systems of Dutch . |
| 13 | They provide little information on how labour markets are working or how individuals and households respond to job loss . |
| 14 | Although these techniques are valuable for transport studies , they provide little information on the biological properties of the gall bladder epithelial cell itself . |
| 15 | The achievements of the Communists and their Comintern helpers in the purely military sphere , as exemplified by their contribution to the formation of the Republican Popular Army , were considerable ; if they created little likelihood of a Republican victory , certainly they postponed its defeat . |
| 16 | However , they show little evidence of what their problems actually are , and the phrase at the top does little to help ideas , describing only the slavery in sweated labour . |
| 17 | ‘ They show little interest in playing integrated cricket for teams in other leagues outside their own tournaments . |
| 18 | The birds ' beaks contain pain receptors , and although they show little sign of distress immediately after the operation , pain may be delayed as is the case with human burn victims . |
| 19 | Between 1713 and 1763 they paid little attention to the colonies in America , and at least for the first half of the period it was hard to see what else could have been done . |
| 20 | Many feminists also saw the struggle for the vote in moral terms , but while they were prepared to use maternalist arguments in support of their campaign , they paid little attention to the individual needs of mothers . |
| 21 | Indeed , they demonstrate little interest in or carry any vim into their academic work ; certainly nothing to compare with the avid desire for technique and expertise many take to the sports field . |
| 22 | What is it , have they have they got little things like little |
| 23 | They showed little awareness of , or interest in , HMI surveys and official reports , let alone other published research and writing on primary education . |
| 24 | They showed little interest in attitudes or opinions which explains their insistence on " factual questions " , precise and exact , in order to claim that the research yielded " hard " data . |
| 25 | They give little thought to , what they have to do in a day and how long each task may take . |
| 26 | However , they give little information about the obstetric features of their cases , which might be quite important since matching is essential with such small numbers — for example , were the babies predominantly born during preterm labour or were they delivered electively for some obstetric complication ? |
| 27 | For example , Ambrose , Harper and Pemberton 's ( 1983 ) small study of men after divorce found that just over half their sample relied on parents and/or siblings for support , but they give little detail about the type of support offered and it may well have been practical as much as emotional . |
| 28 | They are distracted by the glamour and excitement of drugs and gangs ; they get little discipline at home ; they fail to connect getting a good job with finishing high school . |
| 29 | They practise their swing , but often they pay little attention to the situation at hand . |
| 30 | ( World-system theories are less relevant here because , as was pointed out in Chapter 1 , they pay little attention to the internal structure of national economies . ) |