Example sentences of "little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Commonwealth Conference of March 1963 discussed the issue but showed little enthusiasm . |
| 32 | Actually , though , I have little enthusiasm for the venture . |
| 33 | Bernard , however , realized that unless someone with a sound financial background took the company 's problems in hand , its continued existence was threatened , although he too showed little enthusiasm for the idea . |
| 34 | Movements for industrial democracy have been similarly discouraged , and even socialist governments , whether reformist or revolutionary , have shown little enthusiasm for a devolution of their powers which would permit a greater involvement of ordinary people in the direction of their everyday economic activities . |
| 35 | On that issue , there is little enthusiasm in other parts of Europe for air-launched systems . |
| 36 | There was little enthusiasm there for the Hindu nationalist message of the BJP , and the party has little effective organisation in the South . |
| 37 | Clearly it is now almost impossible to proceed without the DUP , as some had hoped , and there is little enthusiasm in the UUP for full-scale inter-party talks . |
| 38 | The larger businesses showed little enthusiasm for the scheme when it was first announced in January . |
| 39 | The report drew little enthusiasm from environmental groups . |
| 40 | There was little enthusiasm in the ILP for a United Front with the Communists , and little affection for the ILP in the Communist Party . |
| 41 | With little enthusiasm for the day , Fabia got out of bed and , mulling over her problems and the fact that anywhere she went from now on would have to be on foot , she pattered to the bathroom to take a shower . |
| 42 | Last year 's Welsh Office waiting list initiative offering particular operations at certain centres was not a great success in Clwyd when patients showed little enthusiasm to travel to South Wales or Bangor for hip , knee and eye operations . |
| 43 | But the government newspaper al-Jumhouriya had little enthusiasm for Clinton ‘ a chameleon that changes colour every day ’ . |
| 44 | There is now little purchase in trying to run the ball for the simple reason that the penalty if you fail to sustain the movement is too great . |
| 45 | But whereas integrationist sympathies were widespread in many continental states , they had little purchase in Britain , especially within the ruling Labour Party . |
| 46 | But , on the other hand , this perspective produces global strategies which have little purchase on concrete instances , and tend to assume instead the burden of a messianic project in which the enemy is supposedly being smashed , crushed , or stamped out for ever . |
| 47 | The idea of each institution forming a coherent academic community seems to have little purchase in reality . |
| 48 | If I talk about ‘ psychic integration ’ or reunion with the Divine Archetype , these are abstractions on which the mind has little purchase . |
| 49 | There was little monitoring until the later 1980s ( Sills , Taylor and Golding , 1985 ) . |
| 50 | It was not only food that was running short ; the Collector was shocked to see how little powder and shot remained the mine , the fougasses , and the firing of chain shot to clear the foliage had seriously depleted what he had considered an ample provision of powder ; if used sparingly it might last for two weeks , but the shot was almost exhausted . |
| 51 | The average weight of cows is 400–450kg and the average milk yields , with very little feeding of concentrates , are about 4,000kg . |
| 52 | That was a time when a foreign passport offered little defence against arbitrary injustice from the authorities , and the very mention of the Avant-garde artists ' names incurred the risk of repression . |
| 53 | Using a clamped wooden batten as a guide , the saw performed well , and the polished sole plate produced little friction . |
| 54 | Give it a flick it 'll go for a long way because there 's no , there 's very little friction on the ice and erm the second one is the , the awkward one . |
| 55 | It had taken them only a short time to realise they were from opposite sides in the Therapeutic Wars , but it had caused little friction . |
| 56 | Will be this little narrative : |
| 57 | Time and again we find him casting out unclean spirits from afflicted people : it is one of the well-known characteristics of Mark 's Gospel which on the whole contains little teaching , but a great deal of action by Jesus . |
| 58 | There was very little patience . |
| 59 | Alas , the Gulf crisis has created a new phrase to frustrate travellers with little patience for this abuse of the English language . |
| 60 | However , she had little patience with those non-conforming ministers who continually moaned and complained about their losses and dangers , and , ‘ would have no man be a minister that had not so much self denial as to lay down all at the feet of Christ , and count no cost of suffering too dear to serve Him . ’ |