Example sentences of "we have little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had little scope for passion . ’ |
| 2 | Erm we had little pork sausage rolls pork pies cut up erm this is what |
| 3 | The great grey is one of the largest of the forest owls of Scandinavia , larger even than the snowy owl of the Arctic tundra , and one species we had little hope of finding unaided . |
| 4 | Luckily , Felton were at full strength , so we had little chance of losing . |
| 5 | The flight crews eagerly accepted the King 's hospitality ; our Tri-Pacer had been running so well we had little maintenance to do . |
| 6 | Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary . |
| 7 | It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people . |
| 8 | For the first series , we had little sit-up chairs on which we perched and swivelled , but then we were still experimenting . |
| 9 | They were n't all scientists , in fact we had little use for most of them . |
| 10 | Although we had little notice of the tour , branches were keen to help and the Association will receive £6,628 representing 50% of the total profits . |
| 11 | We have little evidence from research as to how the members of such households view the changing balance of the relationship . |
| 12 | We have little idea of how well other old people cope without the help of the formal sector , though it is not unreasonable to suppose that many struggle in a considerable degree of discomfort and risk . |
| 13 | Even if the early 1980s mark the trough of the latest Kondratiev cycle we have little idea of what is happening to the UK economy unless we can explain what gives rise to these long waves , Long-wave theorists rely upon fluctuations in innovation by firms for most of their explanatory power . |
| 14 | We are far from being able to specify all the things that actually take place in a learning situation , and ( as we saw earlier ) we have little knowledge of the implications of individual difference for our work . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , if that 's so it is indeed a great pity , Dr Ash , but in view of Dr Prior 's importance to the company you must understand that we have little choice in this matter . |
| 16 | Had they done that we have little doubt that the tribunal decision would have been otherwise than it was . ’ |
| 17 | The lake rarely freezes so we have little opportunity to discover our ice-legs . |
| 18 | Although we have little opportunity to meet the participants socially , there is very little sense of social barrier , and I wonder what all these western myths about the ‘ inscrutable Chinese ’ mean . |
| 19 | Such communications may clearly show signs of similarity to our own human allocation of emotions and feelings — anger , affection , dominance and so on — but of how a chimpanzee actually feels anger , we have little comprehension . |
| 20 | The overall effect is visually complicated and inelegant , and could only be explained by recourse to arcane ritual references , which at this distance of time we have little hope of tracing . |
| 21 | If there are orthographic paragraph divisions in the original version of this text which were made for the sake of appearance on the page , then we have little hope of identifying such divisions in any formal way . |
| 22 | No doubt this is all a part of nature 's design to keep the community together , but of how a chimpanzee 's inner mind is structured , and of how they feel , we have little notion . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , since the brains of dead people rot swiftly , we have little notion of the degree of crenulation of the Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon brain . |
| 24 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 25 | Because we are engaged in practical actions of great complexity , which we nevertheless ‘ pull off ’ day after day , we have little time to stand back and analyse how we do all the things that we do . |
| 26 | Unfortunately we have little time for digressions however entertaining they might be . |
| 27 | We have little time . |
| 28 | But in the ghosts of the house ‘ we have little interest … ‘ , he wrote . |
| 29 | In our day-to-day lives , including day-to-day scientific lives , we have little need of such confirmed hypotheses . |
| 30 | It is in this area that more clinical research might most profitably be done , for these are complex psychological phenomena about which we have little certainty . |