Example sentences of "but this [verb] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detainee can make a formal complaint after release , but this offers little solace to the aggrieved individual . |
| 2 | When Paisley was later told about the woman 's remark , he immediately condemned it and rebuked her , but this made little impression on the basic loyalties of the audience . |
| 3 | There was a prison hospital with twelve beds , but this had little equipment and only basic drugs . |
| 4 | A small number of Palestinian workers were permitted to enter Israel from Feb. 10 , but this had little impact on the mounting economic problems in the occupied territories . |
| 5 | The correction of the rates by logistic regression slightly increased the width of the confidence intervals , but this had little effect on our conclusions . |
| 6 | But this cuts little ice on the Hill , and not just with Mr Miller 's men . |
| 7 | The slope for women in large firms is much steeper but this has little effect on the average because so few women actually work continuously in large firms . |
| 8 | The Jacobites used a simple cipher in private correspondence — a reference to Frederick being attached to Patricia , for example , meant that Mar was still loyal to James — but this presented little difficulty to the British code-breakers , as one Jacobite warned another : |