Example sentences of "but [verb] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sought collaboration from various colleagues , including Marjory Stephenson ( see Chapter 8 ) in the nearby Department of Biochemistry , but made little progress before his departure from Cambridge to fill successively the chairs of pathology at Sheffield in 1932 and Oxford in 1935 . |
| 2 | Members of Iraqi opposition groups in exile met in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , at end-February , but made little progress in overcoming their differences regarding the future of Iraq or plans to topple the regime of President Saddam Hussein . |
| 3 | He had always been pleased when she had called on him in London but made little effort to visit her in Carshalton . |
| 4 | He had a brilliant technical mind but found little time for people . |
| 5 | Therefore , the Unfair Contract Terms Act is helpful as far as contracts for hardware are concerned but has little relevance for software contracts . |
| 6 | Contrariwise , left sided lobectomy affects abstract words but has little effect on recall of concrete words ( Jones-Gotman and Milner , 1978 ) . |
| 7 | Its flesh is juicy , but has little fragrance . |
| 8 | Waggoner supports the first theory , but has little time for the whiners . |
| 9 | Mr Houghton has come across protests , but has little time for their case or their tactics . |
| 10 | He returned to Gaul in 582/3 , but received little support . |
| 11 | David Timmis held firm with 26 in 44 overs but received little support as Oswestry were sent back for 109 . |
| 12 | In Northern Ireland , another IRA bomb killed a former soldier , but received little coverage . |
| 13 | A young probationary teacher and a student-teacher were also available for some periods of " fringe help , mostly supervisory " ( op. " cit. : 5 ) , but played little part in the planning discussions . |
| 14 | This too , however , must be seen as a presentation of the lives of human beings , which is useful perhaps for taxation purposes but bears little resemblance to the real world . |
| 15 | Frodo , after all , is in contact with the Ring nearly all the time , but shows little sign of being corrupted . |
| 16 | The settlement houses were as active as before but showed little sign of expansion , indeed Toynbee Hall found it increasingly difficult to attract residents . |
| 17 | The Commonwealth Conference of March 1963 discussed the issue but showed little enthusiasm . |
| 18 | A local newspaper has suggested that Indonesians tend to waver between extremes of toleration and banning , but give little thought to the middle ground — restricting becaks to well-defined areas of the city under supervision and control . |
| 19 | The secretaries are expected to produce copy from illegible scribbles , but get little thanks and no status . |
| 20 | Her husband is having an on-off fling which he does not openly admit , but takes little trouble to disguise |
| 21 | Fifty years after the publication of l'Etranger , Geoff Dyer , visits Algeria , where Albert Camus was born and raised , but finds little trace of his ghost |
| 22 | And so I decided to patronise the famous Café de la Paix ; but having little money and no head for alcohol , limited myself to ordering Perrier before lunch , and sat at a table on the pavement , watching the world go by . |
| 23 | I felt Nick 's arm take mine as he saw my tears ; I was grateful , but felt little comfort . |
| 24 | He longed for the chance to talk to each of them in private , but saw little hope of it . |
| 25 | In the 1656–8 Parliament , as a member for Surrey , he was active in committees but took little part in the debates . |
| 26 | She had also read about old people 's homes that ruthlessly exploited their pensioners : unscrupulous proprietors grabbed all they could squeeze from the social services but gave little back to the residents ; they cut corners on staff , food , laundry , and amenities and added to their profits by pocketing the difference between their sparse expenditures and the sums they actually received . |
| 27 | Inventories and investment in new capital goods are treated by flexible accelerator processes from the demand side but play little role in supply ; |
| 28 | The Boer War brought problems concerning children into greater prominence but forced little action from the government . |
| 29 | Widows ' and orphans ' pensions were not greeted with enthusiasm outside women 's organizations , who supported them but had little influence . |
| 30 | The current was starting to tip the canoe over and I began to panic as the boat was filling up rapidly and I tried my best to bail it out with my hands but had little success . |