Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of loss of self-control has received little close attention from lawyers . |
| 2 | In contrast to the owls , the significance of diurnal birds of prey as accumulators of bone has received little attention . |
| 3 | This has received little attention since its ascent in 1983 , possibly because it contains such mind-blowing attractions as a 40-feet skyhook section . |
| 4 | Although it may be contended that it is the process of collective bargaining as an ongoing activity which is at the heart of industrial relations , the negotiating process itself has received little attention in international studies ( an exception is Smith and Turkington , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | Through all this process , and partly because of the pressures created by it , the central role of governors has received little public attention . |
| 6 | Yet ironically , Kahn has received little recognition outside narrow architectural circles while many of his pupils have had considerable popular success . |
| 7 | Such calculations are difficult , due to difficulties in obtaining data on income or wealth distribution among age groups , and this aspect of distribution has received little study . |
| 8 | If the decision was only as to the construction of a statutory provision that would explain why the case has received little attention in later cases … |
| 9 | The effect of combining the two agonists , however , has received little attention . |
| 10 | Another form of executive succession , which has received little attention until recently , is impeachment . |
| 11 | Care for school-age children outside school hours and in the holidays has received little attention . |
| 12 | This aspect of CL petrography has received little attention , but it could be extremely valuable in petroleum exploration , giving an extra feature for use in correlation of borehole core sequences and interpretation of their depositional environments . |
| 13 | In comparison to speech , automatic handwriting recognition has received little attention . |
| 14 | Despite its obvious importance , however , crowd violence is an issue that has received little academic attention in this country , particularly with regard to long-term trends . |
| 15 | This study focuses on an area of research which has received little attention in the past , but which is now at the forefront of the thinking of the relevant military planners . |
| 16 | It is not surprising , then , that this particular set of objections to the implementation of the Delors Plan has received little attention even in the countries likely to be most affected . |
| 17 | The earlier notion that the lower continental crust is largely basaltic in composition has received little support from more recent studies . |
| 18 | But because it is happening in Africa it has received little attention . |
| 19 | Although SunSoft — indeed Sun as a whole — has given little or no ground on the issue of direct support for the Open Software Foundation 's Motif graphical user interface on its own Sparc systems , Watkins says the company is more than happy for third parties to supply it . |
| 20 | On the whole , however , the left has given little priority to these issues . |
| 21 | In modern times the Spanish aristocracy has given little cultural leadership : in the late eighteenth century the few esprit forts who corresponded with Voltaire or Rousseau were swamped by the traditional formality and tedium that made Madrid society a nightmare for intelligent ambassadors . |
| 22 | Although the specific physiological mechanism which they proposed to explain the effect , based on Livingston 's ( 1967a , 1967b ) ‘ Now Print ! ’ theory has attracted little support , the basic demonstration of a surprising ability to report such memories even after considerable delays attracted a great deal of interest and has now been found in a large number of studies ( e.g. Bohannon , 1988 ; Christianson , 1989 ; Colegrove , 1899 ; McCloskey , Wible & Cohen , 1988 ; Pillemer , 1984 ; Winograd & Killinger , 1983 ; Yarmey & Bull , 1978 ) . |
| 23 | The Fynn Valley professional has enjoyed little success so far this year — he has made the cut in just one tournament — and his latest downfall was in the Spanish Open where rounds of 76 and 73 kept him out of the prize money . |
| 24 | True , recent work on the general origins of the conflict has lent little support to the Soviet view that it was the inevitable product of rivalry between Europe 's capitalist powers in the age of imperialism . |
| 25 | Mr Forsyth 's support for student loans has ensured little support for him on the campus but , that apart , the student vote seems to be as divided as it is in the wider constituency . |
| 26 | This week the bespectacled McAllister has missed little of note on the variable greens . |
| 27 | The dominance of right-wing ideas has done little to avert the decline ; to invoke Marxism against Thatcherism is to employ an obsolete weapon . |
| 28 | Soviet aid has helped in maintaining the population 's morale and the regime 's credibility and unity , while US aid to the to the mujahedin has done little to increase their unity , morale or fighting ability . |
| 29 | The regime has done little to reassure people . |
| 30 | At the same time the government did not push its reforms as far as some supporters wished ; it did not , for example , place the onus on union members to contract in rather than out of paying the political levy and has done little to break down national wage bargaining which pays little attention to different local labour market conditions . |