Example sentences of "it [verb] little [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
| 2 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 3 | Although it receives little publicity outside the ICI Group , Chlor-chemicals is one of ICI 's longest standing and most consistently successful businesses . |
| 4 | It offers little discussion of some topics and is not controversial ( contrary to the claim on the back of the book ) . |
| 5 | It has become fashionable to say that this kind of equality is unimportant because it offers little protection against tyranny . |
| 6 | It never came close to winning an election anywhere and , despite the fears of Harry Pollitt , the Communist leader , it made little impact in London dockland around Wapping . |
| 7 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 8 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 9 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 10 | Now that opposition to the governor 's plan to create the park is growing , it seems likely that , if the Yanomami Park is not created before UNCED , it stands little chance of ever becoming a reality . |
| 11 | It was described as Italianate , but it bore little relationship to the contemporary light Italianate villas of the United States and of English country houses . |
| 12 | It has little sympathy with intruders . |
| 13 | Such beauty may make a strong impact , but , if it has little relationship with the inner nature , it is precarious . |
| 14 | Worse , they feel it has little relevance to everyday business decisions , where right and wrong are by no means always clear-cut . |
| 15 | As presently envisaged , it has little relevance to medical practice in hospitals . |
| 16 | It has little relevance in other countries , though a few ( e.g. Denmark and Norway ) have recorded a formal objection , and it appears to have been used in one case for communication from a U.S. attorney to a French huissier . |
| 17 | It has little impact on local history studies , for gradually the system of numbering the days of the month as a continuous series was , with one outstanding exception , accepted . |
| 18 | It has little effect at low currents but severely reduces voltage at high currents . |
| 19 | Liberals may appreciate that conclusion , but it has little basis in empirical fact . |
| 20 | Because it places little emphasis on sheer physical strength , kung fu is a discipline open to young and old alike . |
| 21 | The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies . |
| 22 | It bears little resemblance to bikes popular in the West , which was ruefully noted by the Shanghai Bicycle Factory recently . |
| 23 | If the party at large is grateful for their actions , it shows little evidence of it . |
| 24 | They say it shows little respect for the environment and have managed to pursuade council officials to consider putting preservation orders on the remaining trees . |
| 25 | It takes little knowledge of history to appreciate that relatively few of the battles recorded in history have had a decisive effect upon the future of those involved . |
| 26 | While the Dutch government is actively planning to reduce the number of hospital beds , particularly those for long-stay patients , it takes little notice of the reality of mental health care in The Netherlands , cherishing various misconceptions regarding institutionalism and community care . |
| 27 | It takes little effort of the imagination to put oneself in Theo 's shoes , and feel the grey , correct , judicious side of his character flinching from the terrifying sincerity of Vincent 's outpourings . |
| 28 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 29 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 30 | Before the advent of molecular genetics , screening of newborns in the United Kingdom was generally regarded as ethically unsound because no treatment was available ; it offered little advantage to the family other than the possibility of terminating all subsequent male fetuses , more than half of whom would be normal . |