Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lake rarely freezes so we have little opportunity to discover our ice-legs . |
| 2 | ‘ They used to advocate it for withdrawing heroin addicts — naturally they had little success . |
| 3 | I mean it 's you know , it 's just to people in the film industry and obviously it has little interest reading it |
| 4 | Frustratingly , however , the IPG was unable to view these publications in advance and so it had little idea as to how useful they would be . |
| 5 | She was reasonably attractive , and outgoing , and normally she had little difficulty in establishing cordial relationships in both her working and social life . |
| 6 | Elsewhere he had little success . |
| 7 | That questions and recriminations would creep in later she had little doubt , but for the moment she simply wanted to shut out the rest of the world , to step back into that circle of magic they had created , first in the pool , then in the factory car park when they had somehow made the rest of the world go away . |
| 8 | My case was more straightforward and quite honestly they had little choice but to uphold my appeal . |
| 9 | Later he had little attraction for the Caroline Divines or the Oxford Movement , to tease whose members the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford was built in commemoration of the execution of Cranmer , Latimer and Ridley ; the consciences of Newman , Pusey and Keble were exquisitely tom as they tried to decide whether to subscribe and how their subscriptions to the Memorial Fund might be earmarked for the least heretical of the martyrs . |
| 10 | Also he had little time . |
| 11 | Clearly he had little aptitude for meekness either . |
| 12 | So far she had little reason to believe him . |
| 13 | More than 75 million Soviet citizens lived outside their ‘ own ’ republic ( Kazakhstan alone contained more than 100 different nationalities ) , and very often they had little knowledge of the language of the republican majority . |
| 14 | Coleridge had struggled hard with Osorio , and even now he had little faith that it could succeed on stage . |
| 15 | Yet even she had little access to his inner life . |
| 16 | The flight crews eagerly accepted the King 's hospitality ; our Tri-Pacer had been running so well we had little maintenance to do . |
| 17 | This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them . |
| 18 | Unfortunately we have little time for digressions however entertaining they might be . |
| 19 | If there are orthographic paragraph divisions in the original version of this text which were made for the sake of appearance on the page , then we have little hope of identifying such divisions in any formal way . |
| 20 | If you have failed to brief them properly then they have little option but to either put it on hold or send it back as it came out and let you sort it out . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There they had little hope of meeting , wooing or wedding even the most hideous and unsuitable Englishwomen . |
| 23 | The Development Corporation of Harlow New Town made a flat available , but unfortunately he had little opportunity to make his mark because of recurrent illness and eventually resigned his post in September 1958 . |
| 24 | These clauses may be construed as ‘ no amendment or termination ’ clauses , for otherwise they have little substance ; all treaty provisions are binding unless terminated . |
| 25 | Bill Koch became acutely embarrassed that money was being donated to this party in his name , yet he had little cash of his own . |