Example sentences of "where [pron] be little [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is perhaps a measure of Leapor 's character that even where there is little hope that injustice will be overcome , she is willing to raise a protest .
2 Although the number of conversions is not very high nationally , they play an increasingly important role in central and inner London where land and house prices are very high and where there is little scope for new private house building .
3 These comments are obviously most relevant for work forces where there is little tendency to move out , this is characteristic of a surprisingly large number of organisations in European countries and in Japan but much less so in the U.S.A.
4 The poorest are the clear waters of ice-scoured uplands , where there is little soil or vegetation .
5 In less organised skills where there is little interaction , subtasks may be learned and practised separately before combining them .
6 Unless you are snipping soft growth where there is little space between stems you wish to prune and those that you do not wish to harm , always cut with the object wood well back in the blades to reduce stressing the blades and their pivot .
7 Ray is filmed in Liverpool visiting Claudette at her home , where there is little time for pauses : She talks very frankly about herself .
8 People who are especially at risk include those who are unable to move , perhaps because of a stroke , those with contracted limbs which could be a result of an arthritic condition , people with a known skin condition or allergy and those who are debilitated or undernourished , where there is little flesh between the skin and the bone .
9 I prefer to pass over these and the other Strauss songs with orchestra , where there is little improvement , although both Morgen and Wiegenlied , where no pressure on tone is required , are ingratiatingly done and better tuned than Nilsson 's accounts with piano .
10 Of equal importance is the ability to understand what can be seen at some historical sites where there is little attempt at historical reconstruction to assist understanding — perhaps a burial mound in the middle of a field or a ruined castle .
11 Both sides are permitted considerable licence to achieve their aims and in the ensuing melee , where there is little prospect of administering rules , many old scores are settled .
12 Experiments show clearly that the energy dissipation does not occur roughly uniformly throughout the turbulence ; there are patches of intense small eddies involving high dissipation and other patches where there is little dissipation .
13 While welcoming the news of the developments in Lancashire , shop stewards at the Albion axle works in Glasgow said that did not alter the position at their factory , where there was little likelihood of a similar buy-out .
14 In some parts of Wales , south-west , and northern England small town populations increased because of a local retreat from rural areas where there was little employment apart from agriculture , much of which was in a depressed state .
15 Here on the islands , where there was little vegetation , one species fed on seaweed and clung to rocks among the surging waves with unusually long and powerful claws .
16 Their lenses are much thicker and it is thought that these species lived where there was little light and needed thick lenses to collect and concentrate what light there was .
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