Example sentences of "but [pron] have little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided I must go up to Addis Ababa and try to get permission to start again , but I had little hope of succeeding . |
| 2 | I did it willingly because I still loved his company so much , but I had little money . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry , but I have little sympathy for him . |
| 4 | A work ethos was established that was individualistic , acquisitive and incentive-oriented , but which had little sense of solidarity or mutuality that might supersede this narrowly-conceived achievement ethic . |
| 5 | She felt happier about Kathleen now that she knew that she had a champion in Ella , but she had little time to dwell on the O'Neills . |
| 6 | But we have little understanding of why this should be . |
| 7 | But they had little cushioning effect . |
| 8 | The soldiers grumbled on returning home to find their wives turned yellow by picric acid , but they had little redress . |
| 9 | They looked for abstract relationships between the different structures , but they had little incentive to ask what kind of circumstance might lead a species to change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 10 | Late nineteenth-century judicial reforms did streamline court procedure , but they had little effect on the way in which the administration of law and order was popularly perceived . |
| 11 | Thus at present they have a gene that controls limb development , but they have little idea what its role is . |
| 12 | This means that she can throw out the eggs of her nest mates , but they have little chance to throw out hers . |
| 13 | The provisions of the Act are complex , but they have little effect on media freedom . |
| 14 | The Marquis de Chamlay , his most important military adviser in his later years , had the title of Maréchal-Général des Logis ; but he had little experience of active service and was often employed on non-military tasks . |
| 15 | But he had little confidence of backing from a UK government which seemed to have no idea about the fishing industry . |
| 16 | But he had little reason yet to ask for a search warrant and Mr Simpson would go purple in the face and throw every legal book in his considerable library at him if he so much as tried . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But he has little power to compel , that is , by his person . |
| 19 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 20 | She screamed , but it had little effect , just added to the confusion that reigned in the room . |
| 21 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 22 | But it has little choice . |
| 23 | Liberals may appreciate that conclusion , but it has little basis in empirical fact . |