Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [adv] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a pity but my father , Elfed , has been given very little credit in articles and books . |
| 2 | The body clock has been studied very little in older volunteers and so we do not know the answer to this . |
| 3 | The boat has a full racing spec. but has been raced very little . |
| 4 | Yet , the Labour MP Jeff Rooker claims , there have been examples of Royal Warwickshire prisoners of war seeking desperately needed help who have been given as little as £25 , while many more have been means-tested and found ‘ unqualified ’ for even basic financial assistance . |
| 5 | Reaction was firmly enthroned , and when during the parliamentary debate on the Security from Violence Bill one MP voiced the belief that ‘ the want of employment was the parent of crime ’ , this seems to have been regarded as little more than a sentimental eccentricity . |
| 6 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |
| 7 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 8 | He had been told very little , and even that he had difficulty in remembering because he was so filled with excitement and anticipation . |
| 9 | I think to be honest to you , the the have been given very little guidance , she does n't understand what 's supposed to happen |