Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] make little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the accumulation of translated index cards , Edward and I made little progress , but our humour was good . |
| 2 | There is a sense in which standing is a preliminary question , separate from that of the substance and merits of the applicant 's case : standing rules determine entitlement to raise and argue the issue of illegality , and it makes little sense to say that entitlement to argue the merits of the case depends on whether one has a good case on the merits . |
| 3 | A person may belong to several different families during his life , and it makes little sense to regard him as changing identity on leaving or entering a nuclear family . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he made little effort to develop this outside his own definitions of the genealogical method , while his shift into the problematics of power seemed to lead him into a labyrinth from which it was virtually impossible to extract himself . |
| 6 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 7 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |