Example sentences of "[vb base] do little " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , if anything , secondary features seem to do little to change driving standards . |
| 2 | I have as much scepticism as the next person about new techniques for analysing so-called discourse communities which seem to do little else than parse the text of student e-mail with an home-grown SNOBOL program . |
| 3 | ‘ They 've done little different except increase advertising , ’ he suggests dismissively . |
| 4 | The sales have done little to increase competition : BT and British Gas retain their monopolistic position , although their pricing policies are subject to review by government appointed regulatory bodies . |
| 5 | On the other hand Mrs Thatcher has jealously maintained tax reliefs for homeownership and private pensions ( indeed , extended them for private health care for the over-60s ) and privatization of gas and telephones have done little to increase competition . |
| 6 | Events of 1989 have done little for Australian image . |
| 7 | WITH admirable understatement , the chief economist of one of Australia 's big four banks admitted yesterday that events of 1989 have done little to help his country 's international business image . |
| 8 | His flashy marketing campaigns have done little for the success of Midland 's new products . |
| 9 | As the MOD has shopped around Europe for additional supplies of 155mm shells , some of the responses have done little for any future spirit of co-operation . |
| 10 | We have done little to consider how new members entering the religious life nowadays can internalize the attitudes they attempted to represent . |
| 11 | We have done little to attempt to encapsulate this wisdom and offer it to women in general , both within and outside the Church . |
| 12 | Rehabilitation programmes have served a valuable role in conservation education , and in rescuing pets and animals from cleared habitat , but have done little to boost wild populations — indeed , they could endanger them . |
| 13 | It is in these countries , particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom , that significant upturns in the economy have done little to relieve a sense of urban crisis reminiscent of the 1960s , although the political terms of debates that address urban problems have changed dramatically over this time . |
| 14 | It has been starved of funds , and leading politicians with the power to do something about it have done little or nothing , apparently content as long as the radio reported what they wanted it to report . |
| 15 | Headlines describing the ‘ mid life crisis ’ of the NHS have done little to promote its image as a positive and worthwhile employer . |
| 16 | I have done little to remedy that myself , except to fall back on the preferred notion of level , which at least can begin to explicate how things can be reached by effort at some times but not others . |
| 17 | Despite some progress they have done little to compensate for long term NHS underfunding |
| 18 | What this illustrates is that , notwithstanding the progress made in the past two years , the reforms in themselves have done little to compensate for the long term underfunding of the NHS . |
| 19 | Sociologists have concentrated on social reality as the product of conscious and preconscious processes , but have done little to develop a sociology of the unconscious . |
| 20 | Except for pasting the occasional coconut tree with small advertisements for acupuncture , the hippies have done little to disfigure this beautiful spot . |
| 21 | Yet , given the reality that a number of children were deprived and neglected and the shortage of sympathetic officials , who could in any case have done little about the causes of such deprivation , it is difficult to known what alternative measures were available . |
| 22 | Government ministries have done little to ensure that women 's legal rights have been enforced . |
| 23 | It is sometimes suggested that women 's legal rights are fairly minor and have done little to improve the position of women in society . |
| 24 | While the New Towns often built up relatively successful and prosperous new communities , they have done little to relieve the problems of the least privileged in the old communities from which they drew , and hence , while by providing for ‘ overspill ’ they have helped to solve some inner-city problems , they have exacerbated others . |
| 25 | Decisions since Racal have done little to establish a uniform judicial approach to the scope of review . |
| 26 | The 1988/89 reduction in tax rates and simplifications of the system have done little to improve the tax burden on low income earners , due in part to the continued regressiveness of National Insurance contributions ( NIC ) . |
| 27 | Since then , the directors have done little other than line their own pockets , award themselves enormous pay increases and indulge in dodgy share options , all of which has been done at the expense of the domestic customer , whose bill has gone up by 40 per cent . |
| 28 | The Government have done little to encourage such schemes . |
| 29 | The form of the autumn statement makes that debate more difficult , and in 13 years the Government have done little or nothing to improve it . |
| 30 | Nevertheless the efforts of conservative historians , although they have done much to restore the image of the Church of England after 1830 , have done little to qualify the depiction of the period from the early eighteenth century to that date as a " phase of prolonged , rapid , and disastrous decline " . |