Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] be little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps a measure of Leapor 's character that even where there is little hope that injustice will be overcome , she is willing to raise a protest . |
| 2 | Although the number of conversions is not very high nationally , they play an increasingly important role in central and inner London where land and house prices are very high and where there is little scope for new private house building . |
| 3 | These comments are obviously most relevant for work forces where there is little tendency to move out , this is characteristic of a surprisingly large number of organisations in European countries and in Japan but much less so in the U.S.A. |
| 4 | The poorest are the clear waters of ice-scoured uplands , where there is little soil or vegetation . |
| 5 | In less organised skills where there is little interaction , subtasks may be learned and practised separately before combining them . |
| 6 | Unless you are snipping soft growth where there is little space between stems you wish to prune and those that you do not wish to harm , always cut with the object wood well back in the blades to reduce stressing the blades and their pivot . |
| 7 | Ray is filmed in Liverpool visiting Claudette at her home , where there is little time for pauses : She talks very frankly about herself . |
| 8 | People who are especially at risk include those who are unable to move , perhaps because of a stroke , those with contracted limbs which could be a result of an arthritic condition , people with a known skin condition or allergy and those who are debilitated or undernourished , where there is little flesh between the skin and the bone . |
| 9 | I prefer to pass over these and the other Strauss songs with orchestra , where there is little improvement , although both Morgen and Wiegenlied , where no pressure on tone is required , are ingratiatingly done and better tuned than Nilsson 's accounts with piano . |
| 10 | Of equal importance is the ability to understand what can be seen at some historical sites where there is little attempt at historical reconstruction to assist understanding — perhaps a burial mound in the middle of a field or a ruined castle . |
| 11 | Both sides are permitted considerable licence to achieve their aims and in the ensuing melee , where there is little prospect of administering rules , many old scores are settled . |
| 12 | Experiments show clearly that the energy dissipation does not occur roughly uniformly throughout the turbulence ; there are patches of intense small eddies involving high dissipation and other patches where there is little dissipation . |
| 13 | While welcoming the news of the developments in Lancashire , shop stewards at the Albion axle works in Glasgow said that did not alter the position at their factory , where there was little likelihood of a similar buy-out . |
| 14 | In some parts of Wales , south-west , and northern England small town populations increased because of a local retreat from rural areas where there was little employment apart from agriculture , much of which was in a depressed state . |
| 15 | Here on the islands , where there was little vegetation , one species fed on seaweed and clung to rocks among the surging waves with unusually long and powerful claws . |
| 16 | Their lenses are much thicker and it is thought that these species lived where there was little light and needed thick lenses to collect and concentrate what light there was . |
| 17 | Although there is little sign of it at present , the two funding bodies may eventually merge . |
| 18 | Amongst these are two significantly older churches at Upper Witton , the first near the canal with a rather short spire and the other set amidst a cemetery although there is little peace here these days as the M6 crosses back over . |
| 19 | Although there is little criticism of the foundation 's decision to support such research , other medical charities argue that its explicit exclusion of research on animals may encourage other smaller research-funding bodies to take a similar stand , a move that could make life increasingly difficult for medical researchers . |
| 20 | Its estimates of job losses in the ferry ports are still broadly accepted although there is little evidence of much decline as yet . |
| 21 | As was intimated in the introduction , although there is little evidence to suggest that sexual behaviour changed greatly in the period , the feeling remained for many people at the time that this was nevertheless what was happening . |
| 22 | Although men who were retained for life by a great magnate had an obligation to serve him in peace and war , and although there is little evidence about how the sub-contractors recruited their troops , neither the magnate captains nor their sub-contractors seem to have encountered much difficulty in persuading men to serve . |
| 23 | Enclosure of common land , invasion of common rights and engrossing of farms were among the complaints put forward in the Norfolk rising , and there was also a demand for the ending of serfdom , although there is little evidence that there were still many men of villein status . |
| 24 | Although there is little evidence that any treatment changes the natural course of osteonecrosis , early diagnosis is important to be able to recommend the patient possible new job training , etc . |
| 25 | Although there is little documentary evidence , it has been suggested that the mill , in conjunction with those at Cambridge and Moreton Valance , could have been used for the production of brass pins . |
| 26 | Derbend grade rugs may be separated into Daghestans and Mikrans , although there is little difference in quality between the two , Kazak-grade rugs are rarely , if ever , divided into sub-grades . |
| 27 | Outside working hours Andy still likes to paddle although there is little time in the summer . |
| 28 | Although there is little agreement about their role , they seem to have had slightly more specialized duties . |
| 29 | It became widely accepted that the attackers were predominantly black , although there was little evidence for this belief . |
| 30 | Here , it seemed , some labour had been applied to physical comforts , although there was little evidence of efficient housekeeping . |