Example sentences of "[verb] as little " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Diana has refused a personal invitation from the Queen to the church service and Christmas lunch — a clear signal that she wants as little as possible to do with the rest of the royals . |
| 2 | This suggestion of a compulsive activity with which he wants as little to do as possible is confirmed by his description of poetry as a " secretion " ( he quotes Housman favourably on this ) , an " evacuation " and even a " defecation " . |
| 3 | The first rule of any intelligence network , of course , is that each agent should know as little as possible . |
| 4 | A great deal of thought may be needed to adapt and adjust so that hearing loss causes as little strain as possible . |
| 5 | Most film crews want as little to do with their subjects as possible , yet the Ashleys immediately-became involved in our lives and we in theirs . |
| 6 | Then , out of his overcoat pocket he produced a safety razor-blade , with which he sharpened the pencil he always used for his often indecipherable , cramped little scribbles — a sign , a psychiatrist later told me , of someone wanting to attract as little attention as possible , as in the case of Robert Walser . |
| 7 | I believe in a group of sovereign and nation states cooperating together for their mutual advantage , principally through the means of a single market , regulated as little as possible . |
| 8 | It helped if you got caught to know as little as possible . |
| 9 | The blonde lady , Mrs Johnson , whose daughter Hank regarded as little better than a.streetwalker , found herself appointed chairman of the subcommittee , and she asked if Mrs Stych and the president , the hawk-faced wife of a real estate man , would serve with her . |
| 10 | She told him about open heart surgery , and lasers ; about credit cards and the cost of living , and the vast expense involved when buying a moderately sized residence like Rose Cottage , which he regarded as little short of scandalous , totally unable to begin to comprehend such vast sums of money being paid for such a relatively small return . |
| 11 | Films , in London at the time , for theatrical types , were considered as little more than perks . |
| 12 | A year ago developers could command S$10/sq ft , but now some deals involve as little as S$5/sq ft . |
| 13 | ‘ What I think , what I do , has as little to do with you as your activities have to do with me . ’ |
| 14 | He will find that in both Bath and Lancashire the electorate has as little faith in Labour 's policies as he has . |
| 15 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 16 | Faramea occidentalis ( Rubiaceae ) seeds dispersed as little as 5 m from the mother there have a distinct advantage over those beneath her . |
| 17 | The submarine force — over its whole lifetime — was often to absorb as little as 2 per cent of the defence budget , thus weakening the case of those who argued that Britain 's conventional forces would have gained significantly from its cancellation . |
| 18 | You want to write as little as possible on them . |
| 19 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 20 | No one is quite sure just how significant they are because , generally , they prefer to maintain a low profile and reveal as little information as they can . |
| 21 | Oh , and plantation workers sometimes earn as little as 25 cents a day … |
| 22 | The Select Committee on Employment recently produced a very good report on home workers , which revealed that many earn as little as 20p or 30p an hour for making up Christmas crackers . |
| 23 | The children 's mothers are tea pluckers and earn as little as £1 for a full day 's work . |
| 24 | Does he realise that home workers in my constituency receive as little as 40p an hour ? |
| 25 | Also , the park 's hotel accommodation is cheap , costing as little as FFr60 a night . |
| 26 | ‘ Interfere as little as possible with nature ’ was the watchword . |
| 27 | In most areas of local government activity , the main concern of business organizations was that councils should operate as cheaply as possible and interfere as little as possible with their operations through planning controls . |
| 28 | So that erm , it does you good to have a job , it looks good on a C V , and they would do as little as possible , and if you , if you disciplined them , then one of them says oh well , I 'll leave , me dad will give me the money anyway . |
| 29 | We have heard that , far from realising the £100 million which was originally talked of , the sale may now fetch as little as £6 million . |
| 30 | The Chapter — whatever that was — were anxious that services should be disrupted as little as possible . |