Example sentences of "to have had little " in BNC.
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| 1 | WPC Dick 's salutary essay ( 1985 ) changed little and generated few ripples on the ACPO pond , while one of the most powerfully critical books on policing in recent years ( Jones 1980 ) seems to have had little effect on the structures of the organization , except , perhaps , to help draw its author — then a chief inspector — into the ACPO ranks . |
| 2 | This question provoked arguments in America about the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women , some of the contents of which were said to have had little value as literature . |
| 3 | There is , then , no reason to believe Freemantle when she claims to have had little interest in poetry . |
| 4 | In economic terms they seem to have had little effect : in Merseyside , for instance , which has had every new scheme , economic decline has not even been halted , let alone reversed . |
| 5 | Generally , the small Wealden farmers seem to have had little incentive or commitment to improvement . |
| 6 | They seem , however , to have had little support amongst the lords , and the opposition which undoubtedly existed to Gaunt 's reversal of the acts of the Good Parliament lacked leadership and co-ordination . |
| 7 | Obviously , the heroin use of their son or daughter came as a great shock to most parents , many of whom seem to have had little or no idea that their offspring was involved in any drug use whatsoever , let alone daily heroin use . |
| 8 | But once ashore , others seem to have had little difficulty in establishing new homes . |
| 9 | The humanities , on the other hand , regard a concern with moral issues as central to their meaning ; philosophers , historians , literary critics , consistently make explicit their interest in morality-while the study of philosophy , history or English appears to have had little impact on the lives of the mass of people . |
| 10 | However , it is significant that modern physics appears to have had little impact on their philosophy of physics ; they still construct it as a subject which is capable of revealing absolute truths . |
| 11 | Cuvier seemed to contemporaries to have had little trouble in demolishing the evolutionary scheme of his contemporary Lamarck . |
| 12 | ‘ Your brother seems to have had little use for credit cards . ’ |
| 13 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
| 14 | In some cases , though , reports seem to have had little impact , and in many others their effects are difficult to assess . |
| 15 | As , chairman of Dundas & wilson who claims to have had little problem in providing other specialist services to clients , small and large , the exercise becomes on of ‘ not cross-selling but cross-advising ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ For a woman who claims to have had little to do with my countrymen , ’ Nicolo said coldly , ‘ you seem very well informed . ’ |