Example sentences of "because [pron] [verb] little [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Because I have little patience for people who waste their time on idle speculation without any evidence to support their suspicions — and now , ’ he continued inexorably , ‘ since we understand each other , I suggest you go and have your shower , get dressed and eat some breakfast . |
2 | She was transferred from home to a private rehabilitation centre , but she was not happy there because she had little privacy , and her family could not travel to see her every day . |
3 | She had drilled herself to super-efficiency and had become one of the very highly paid temps the advertisements talk about , because there seemed little point in such jobs unless they were extravagantly rewarded . |
4 | Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith . |
5 | Labour members in those constituencies would have to be expelled from the party because they had little chance of ousting the sitting Tory MP . |
6 | For example , in North Wales , Derbyshire and the main part-time farming areas ( North Yorkshire , Wester Ross and Orkney ) , the number who were confident in all stock tasks was fairly high , no doubt because they had little option but to tackle stock work . |
7 | Kondratieff presented few data for growth from 1789 to 1814 from countries other than Britain because they had little growth to analyse . |
8 | Immediately after the war , when Bullett first approached Freud er , with the idea of writing the book , Freud was apparently feeling very depressed , and er , he was savagely critical of his own work , and er , because he had little access to patients during the war , he generally felt quite down and also by presenting written for him , all he would need to wr all he would need to write , and according to er , other people , perhaps he was eating , he was receiving just sort of waiting to die . |
9 | It has become fashionable to say that this kind of equality is unimportant because it offers little protection against tyranny . |
10 | The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout . |
11 | Because it places little emphasis on sheer physical strength , kung fu is a discipline open to young and old alike . |
12 | Mr Wallace expects to get support for his view that the Scottish Constitutional Convention should go into cold storage , not just because it has little relevance but also to expose Labour as uninterested in cross-party co-operation . |
13 | Because it has little executive power itself , the union faces a long hard road to have the motion adopted . |