Example sentences of "[adv] little [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , not a man to be seduced by charm alone , thought rather little of " Diffugere nives " , coupling it with another poem , the twelfth ode of the fourth book , and dismissing the pair alike as Frühlingslieder ( " unremarkable spring songs " ) , which Goethe , " " , ( " only remind us , like Goethe of old , " " and if time goes swiftly by , the seasons come again " " ) ( 1913 ) . |
| 2 | We know rather little about what kind of bargains are struck at the present time although inheritance is always a possible way of ensuring that the balance of support does not tip too much in one direction , even if its use is not spoken about openly . |
| 3 | It was quite possible for them to take their deferences and privileges and give rather little in return . |
| 4 | TRAINED observers in the press gallery have been rather surprised that the behaviour of MPs has changed so little as a result of the television cameras ' arrival . |
| 5 | Many researchers fail to make the best possible use of libraries simply because they know so little about the bibliographical tools that are available to help them . |
| 6 | ‘ It makes me angry that women think so little about their bodies that they use abortion as a means of contraceptive . |
| 7 | Funny , is n't it , loving someone the way I loved Rob yet knowing so little about him . ’ |
| 8 | So much sociological theory seems to be about a world entirely in the realm of the head , or the mind , and so little about a world of bodily states of feeling and action . |
| 9 | But one thing is clear : although we know so little about it , this was a major crisis . |
| 10 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 11 | AS I HAVE not attended a Booksellers Association conference since Eastbourne 1987 , I was surprised by the fact that the 1993 conference was somewhat inward-looking and said so little about the consumer . |
| 12 | ‘ But see , I 've talked enough already , and you still know so little about the scheme itself . |
| 13 | London , meditated Dexter — so many people crammed together , yet knowing so little about the others standing only a few feet away . |
| 14 | It 's a common disease , so why do we know so little about it ? |
| 15 | This is why we know so little about Robert Simms , though most contemporaries thought him too moral a man to have acted dishonourably . |
| 16 | She knew so little about him . |
| 17 | It 's because people know so little about themselves that their knowledge of nature is so little use to them . |
| 18 | ‘ We know so little about them . |
| 19 | -They know so little about life … |
| 20 | I 've always been intrigued by the Catholic church , by all the colours and the candles , but I know so little about it … when we studied existentialism in high school , I felt that that was exactly right , but now I just do n't know … |
| 21 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 22 | He knew so little about the serf question that at first he thought it involved no more than granting the peasants their personal freedom . |
| 23 | ‘ What 's not fair , ’ Cranston interrupted , ‘ is that we know so little about last night . |
| 24 | He knows so little about being loved , he can not really provide Miranda with any more than material gifts and force to persuade her to love him . |
| 25 | He 's drunk enough to float the Mauretania , and left me to drive him home that 's had so little over me lips you would think it was Lent . ’ |
| 26 | Why have SSDs achieved so little despite the massive increase in resources allocated to them since they were first established in 1971 ? |
| 27 | The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on . |
| 28 | The problem is that so little of police time is devoted to it . |
| 29 | In contrast , we still know so little of the ways of life and intelligence of these magnificent creatures . |
| 30 | It is sad , and somewhat ominous , that so little of that should have been reflected in the sombre statement which Mr Parkinson made in the House yesterday .. |