Example sentences of "it [vb -s] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
| 2 | Although it receives little publicity outside the ICI Group , Chlor-chemicals is one of ICI 's longest standing and most consistently successful businesses . |
| 3 | It offers little discussion of some topics and is not controversial ( contrary to the claim on the back of the book ) . |
| 4 | It has become fashionable to say that this kind of equality is unimportant because it offers little protection against tyranny . |
| 5 | In fact , the dilemma of any national state in cultural terms is that it is charged with defending cultural patrimony within a world market over which it exercises little control . |
| 6 | It does not need a gearbox , and it needs little maintenance . |
| 7 | Now that opposition to the governor 's plan to create the park is growing , it seems likely that , if the Yanomami Park is not created before UNCED , it stands little chance of ever becoming a reality . |
| 8 | It has little sympathy with intruders . |
| 9 | But it has little choice . |
| 10 | Such beauty may make a strong impact , but , if it has little relationship with the inner nature , it is precarious . |
| 11 | Worse , they feel it has little relevance to everyday business decisions , where right and wrong are by no means always clear-cut . |
| 12 | It has little relevance in other countries , though a few ( e.g. Denmark and Norway ) have recorded a formal objection , and it appears to have been used in one case for communication from a U.S. attorney to a French huissier . |
| 13 | As presently envisaged , it has little relevance to medical practice in hospitals . |
| 14 | Mr Wallace expects to get support for his view that the Scottish Constitutional Convention should go into cold storage , not just because it has little relevance but also to expose Labour as uninterested in cross-party co-operation . |
| 15 | Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge . |
| 16 | But if an incident has occurred involving violence or which leads to a soured atmosphere at work , management may consider that it has little option but to take action . |
| 17 | Thus as a formal method of scrutiny it has little value . |
| 18 | It has little impact on local history studies , for gradually the system of numbering the days of the month as a continuous series was , with one outstanding exception , accepted . |
| 19 | It has little effect at low currents but severely reduces voltage at high currents . |
| 20 | However , as a model , it has little detail and is not a suitable tool for analytical work . |
| 21 | It has little flavour and is used mainly to colour foods . |
| 22 | Liberals may appreciate that conclusion , but it has little basis in empirical fact . |
| 23 | I mean it 's you know , it 's just to people in the film industry and obviously it has little interest reading it |
| 24 | Because it has little executive power itself , the union faces a long hard road to have the motion adopted . |
| 25 | Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it |
| 26 | It is important not to soak potatoes , as this leaches out the vitamin , and not to overcook cabbage and other green vegetables , as heat gradually destroys Vitamin C. Rosehip tea is also an excellent source of this vitamin , as is fresh lemon juice , which is permissible on this diet as it contains little sugar . |
| 27 | Because it places little emphasis on sheer physical strength , kung fu is a discipline open to young and old alike . |
| 28 | Start from where it says little knobs he |
| 29 | Thus , the wizened old woman of ‘ Col Tempo ’ from the Accademia is shown in the same room as Leonardo 's drawings of grotesque heads , to which it bears little resemblance . |
| 30 | The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies . |