Example sentences of "they have little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But workers say few employees will volunteer for redundancy when they 've little chance of finding another job . |
| 2 | The workers say they 've little chance of getting another job . |
| 3 | ‘ They used to advocate it for withdrawing heroin addicts — naturally they had little success . |
| 4 | They had little doubt as to the contents of the sacks and their prompt action in jumping the men was vindicated when the sacks were found to contain large quantities of spirits and cigarettes . |
| 5 | From a local survey they found that many girls of this age were very frightened in labour , which made it worse , and that they had little idea about coping with a tiny baby . |
| 6 | But they had little cushioning effect . |
| 7 | This was not a powerful cabal , and they had little expectation of early success . |
| 8 | Some of the rebel leaders , notably Litster , may have appreciated their military weakness , because they attempted to involve members of the gentry in the revolt , and although they had little support of this nature , the very fact that they hoped to obtain it must argue against an interpretation of the revolt simply in class terms . |
| 9 | They had little money to spend once he 'd given up riding altogether but they shared love in abundance . |
| 10 | On the one hand , the new owners of great country houses accepted the life of the landed gentleman , even where they had little land . |
| 11 | But whereas integrationist sympathies were widespread in many continental states , they had little purchase in Britain , especially within the ruling Labour Party . |
| 12 | Even the National government and the Conservative Party leadership felt obliged to pay some attention to a movement with which they had little sympathy ; they frequently referred to pacifist feeling as a reason for slow rearmament and later for " appeasement " of Germany and Italy . |
| 13 | In the circumstances , they had little choice . |
| 14 | As the denomination most solidly based in the countryside , they also realized they had little choice in the thousands of new streets with their red and yellow brick terraces that were covering England 's acres . |
| 15 | My case was more straightforward and quite honestly they had little choice but to uphold my appeal . |
| 16 | They needed a boost because of the Cuban crisis and this seemed to be the opportunity , so they had little choice but to enter into the quicksand of the Vietnam War . |
| 17 | They hastened into the shelter of rocks and wood , wary of falling branches but aware that they had little choice but to seek refuge from the storm in the wind-shadow of great trees . |
| 18 | It may have been costly , but those in charge say they had little choice . |
| 19 | More than 75 million Soviet citizens lived outside their ‘ own ’ republic ( Kazakhstan alone contained more than 100 different nationalities ) , and very often they had little knowledge of the language of the republican majority . |
| 20 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 21 | They had little difficulty in finding abundant evidence for this hypothesis . |
| 22 | In some areas , such as vision , what happens to the food they eat , explanations of day and night , shadows and plant growth , many children had well-established views which they had little difficulty in expressing . |
| 23 | Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith . |
| 24 | The grandparents , whom Williams referred to as ‘ mum ’ and ‘ the old man ’ , were , according to him , uneducated and barely literate ; they had little comprehension of the values , demands and functions of education and , as a consequence , were unable to make any contribution to the child 's involvement at school . |
| 25 | Congresses and committees did not scrutinize military funding and expenditure , and they had little opportunity to discuss military actions : the government did not announce the ventures in Chad and Uganda ; nor did they disclose training given to Chaddian , Palestinian and perhaps other freedom-fighters ( Tunisian , for example ) . |
| 26 | Hugging the ground , dodging clumps of splintered trees , hopping over hedges and walls and old fortified lines , Lambert led Kimberley and Killion so low that they had little opportunity to take their eyes off the terrain and look for balloons . |
| 27 | What they wanted to provide very rarely brought expenditure close to this ceiling , so they had little problem in deciding whether the project could or could not cost-effectively support a client ( see Chapter Six for further details of the cost of care ) . |
| 28 | In individual cases catching criminals depended on the usually less than willing readiness of the village constables to act ; since they were chosen by vote annually from middling tradesmen and farmers they had little hope of dealing with many common incidents unless the rest of the community felt sufficiently outraged to support them . |
| 29 | Many students realised they had little hope of going abroad and sought instead other escape routes from their situation . |
| 30 | There they had little hope of meeting , wooing or wedding even the most hideous and unsuitable Englishwomen . |