Example sentences of "but have little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Therefore , the Unfair Contract Terms Act is helpful as far as contracts for hardware are concerned but has little relevance for software contracts .
2 Contrariwise , left sided lobectomy affects abstract words but has little effect on recall of concrete words ( Jones-Gotman and Milner , 1978 ) .
3 Its flesh is juicy , but has little fragrance .
4 Waggoner supports the first theory , but has little time for the whiners .
5 Mr Houghton has come across protests , but has little time for their case or their tactics .
6 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 .
7 Widows ' and orphans ' pensions were not greeted with enthusiasm outside women 's organizations , who supported them but had little influence .
8 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 .
9 Culley felt the anger , but had little idea what he might do about it .
10 A university steeped in classical , historical , and literary traditions was not unfriendly to science but had little awareness of the growing cost of high level scientific research , and even , perhaps , in some quarters reservations about its importance .
11 A Tokyo conference in November 1943 of leaders from nominally independent Southeast Asian countries was supposed to strengthen solidarity and cooperation , but had little impact either in Japan or in Southeast Asia itself .
12 An accomplished pianist , she also had great histrionic gifts , but had little time to pursue these interests in later years .
13 Britain 's first application was tabled in august , just after the Kuwait crisis , but had little effect on Defence policy at the time , because negotiations were relatively short-lived .
14 The Presbyterians drifted into Unitarianism whose rational approach attracted the ministers and the merchants but had little appeal to the poor ; there was no ‘ enthusiasm ’ about it .
15 More usually , first time climbers in the alps are aware of the technique 's importance , but have little idea of how to apply it effectively on different types of terrain .
16 Their survey found that forty per cent of students have tried drugs … but have little idea of the risks .
17 Externalisation : Family members , like the primary sufferers , blame all manner of people , places and things for the problem caused by primary addictive disease but have little insight into their own condition .
18 Liberica beans , from Liberia , are prolific but have little quality or flavour .
19 Mutations at p cause a reduction of eumelanin ( black-brown ) pigment and altered morphology of black pigment granules ( eumelanosomes ) , but have little effect on pheomelanin ( yellow-red ) pigment .
20 An accelerated loss of NO 2 through aerosol chemistry is therefore likely to increase the rate of ozone reduction in autumn , but have little effect in spring when ozone losses will be dominated by heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric clouds in the lower stratosphere .
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