Example sentences of "he [vb -s] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN a member of a Harlem street gang decides to escape his life of crime by using his DJ skills he receives little support , and the growing tension leads to violence . |
| 2 | In France they have devised a logical system whereby senior officials of the Bureau d'Enquête d'Accident are formally recognised by the magistrate as officials of his court , thereby relieving the magistrate himself of much responsibility relating to highly technical matters of which he has little comprehension while at the same time enabling the professional investigators immediate access to the wreckage of the aircraft and its records , etc. in their pursuit of the cause of the accident . |
| 3 | Many college curricula , especially in scientific and technological subjects , subject the student to such a barrage of facts and opinions that he has little chance to pause and assess what has taken place so far . |
| 4 | However , William Matteuzzi 's Almaviva is so weak that it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to picture her preferring the young Count to the lecherous old Dr Bartolo ; and although the late Giuseppe Patane conducts the score with obvious affection , he has little flare for dramatic pacing . |
| 5 | He does not go abroad much which is as well since he has little sense of direction and has twice been found many miles from home wandering the streets . |
| 6 | He has little sympathy for the Arab nationalism that destroyed the Jews of Baghdad and the Christian Assyrians , and he quotes at length from Stephen Bloom 's ‘ almost lyrical ’ account of a Romanian childhood where Germans , Slovaks , Russians , Greeks , Turks , Armenians and Jews provided harmonious diversity . |
| 7 | He has little sympathy with those in his party who want more radical action . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the company seems to have lost its way of late — even Mr Sugar is on record as saying he has little idea of where the next 1512 is going to come from . |
| 9 | He has little difficulty in pulling summer sheets and other light rugs straight over his head , even if there are straps under his tummy , so at night he has a rug with leg straps to keep it in place . |
| 10 | His is a forlorn campaign , however , and he has little hope of success . |
| 11 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 12 | And , as he admitted yesterday , he has little knowledge of the racing industry , apart from having been ‘ a very amateur rider ’ . |
| 13 | He has little knowledge of a shepherd 's life since he writes his idyllic poem from the town , as a wealthy poet , and can not possibly see the reality as one would have it from experienced eyes . |
| 14 | Lacking a land border with the Jewish state , he has little incentive to end the conflict with Israel and much to gain by posing , from a safe distance , as its uncompromising foe . |
| 15 | He lists no hobbies in Who 's Who ? but then again , he has little time , although he and his wife , Caroline , a high-flying recruitment consultant , are renowned ‘ foodies ’ . |
| 16 | In such straits he has little room for manoeuvre . |
| 17 | He knows he has little room for manoeuvre while the government 's popularity is so high and his so low . |
| 18 | But he has little power to compel , that is , by his person . |
| 19 | He buys little ones . |
| 20 | Marginally quick-tempered , he sees little sense in having to field a barrage of questions when he might feel that his score tells its own story . |
| 21 | From the point of view of the buyer , general exclusion clauses are obviously less popular , and , in general he sees little need for them to protect his own position . |
| 22 | He sees little difference between acting on stage and screen : ‘ It seems to be the same internal life that you try to discover in a character and the way you go about it is the same . |
| 23 | Indeed he sees little place for ‘ so-called culture ’ surrounding an Olympics . |
| 24 | He takes little interest in me apart from how I look and what my exam results are like . |
| 25 | Tom Watson 's interests are mainly technical , and he takes little interest in the retail side of the business . |
| 26 | He accepts that law is ‘ relatively autonomous ’ of the economy , but he finds little use for the ‘ base/superstructure metaphor ’ , rejecting what he sees as Althusser 's rigid division of social formations into different ‘ instances ’ or ‘ levels ’ . |
| 27 | Conran admits that he derives little satisfaction from having to fight off unwelcome suitors . |
| 28 | Unfortunately he pays little attention to the differences and the effect these have upon the implications of what we ascribe to animals whilst using the same forms of words . |
| 29 | Burton 's approach can be seriously criticized on the grounds that he pays little attention to such problems as the globalization of capital , class struggle or ideology , and that he often appears to confuse society and system at both the descriptive and the conceptual levels . |
| 30 | ‘ He makes little gestures that are profoundly human . |