Example sentences of "[art] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little evidence there is suggests a view which is anyway plausible , that the consuls dealt with cases involving the distinguished ( clarissimae personae ) and large sums , although no limit is known . |
| 2 | The little evidence I could obtain suggested that the explanation was the usual one in criminal justice short-comings : a rising demand not met with increasing resources . |
| 3 | The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections . |
| 4 | The little evidence available about the level or accuracy of memory in everyday driving situations suggests that it may be surprisingly poor . |
| 5 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 6 | On telecommunications , Banegas took the opportunity to criticise the government for the little interest it has shown in putting an end to the import of unauthorised pirate telephones , 3m of which are now in Spain . |
| 7 | And your mother thought to herself , honey , of the short life ahead of her , of all the worth and power within her and the little use it would be , and she felt such a weeping bitterness that she cursed humankind . |
| 8 | In many Third World countries , therefore , comprador is a term of abuse and , as a consequence has lost most of the little value it ever had for analysis . |
| 9 | She saw only her darling come down the room Nicandra might have walked alone , so unaware was Aunt Tossie , for the moment , of the little friend . |
| 10 | And I began to be conscious of my unnatural state , and cry in the night sometimes for no real reason except that I wanted a man beside me — any man at all , I sometimes thought , and the little voice which had been so snooty before , now held its peace on the subject . |
| 11 | Have you forgotten ( the little voice keeps nagging me ) those awful days of waiting by a phone for the call that never comes , the ignoble feelings of intense jealousy which accompany sexual passion , the hurt , the rows , the roller-coaster ride of emotions ? |
| 12 | ( Many years before , an uncle of mine had run along the top of that wall carrying a doormat which he had placed carefully on top of the chimney of the little building adjacent called the Reading Room . |
| 13 | However , there the little building on a bridge and the building on the right are reflected , all shine from the sky is cut out and some of the colour of the river bed comes through even in the middle distance . |
| 14 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 15 | He stood , looking up at the little building , feeling constrained to say more . |
| 16 | There were no notices , no signs , nothing that could indicate where he was to a traveller , so that the clean worn wood of the country platform and the solid unadorned brick of the little building seemed very much a part of the wooded slope at the back of it . |
| 17 | The little wife knew exactly what she was doing . |
| 18 | She flushed , the little wife with the little studio . |
| 19 | I open the door to the little cloakroom in the corner , undecided about which form of relief to try , and hesitate between the brownish lavatory and the greenish tap . |
| 20 | Amazed that the little machine had brought us so far , he gave me his prayer beads and wished us a safe trip , ‘ Allah willing ’ . |
| 21 | Click-click went the little machine in Pumfrey 's brain that was card-indexing all this information , putting arrows against all the possible trails . |
| 22 | Nevertheless by 1980 Apple was a $300 million company and personal computers had so successfully invaded the office that in 1981 IBM — which had originally scorned the little machine — introduced its first model called simply the IBM PC . |
| 23 | He must have forgotten there was a wind change , in any case a great mass of sand was blown in the direction of the little Base Camp and smothered the tea swindle but , worse still , it also smothered the various Instructors who were resting whilst the pupils were carrying out a detail in the air . |
| 24 | but for Oliver the little doggie in the book . |
| 25 | The Hinayana ( the little vehicle ) is more to do with discipline and method while the Mahayana ( the great vehicle ) is to do with the mystical . |
| 26 | What chloroplast cells there are tend to concentrate near to the veins , so that the little carbohydrate that is elaborated is quickly moved into the nearby veins and carried to where it is needed , thus we get a characteristic green outline to the veins in an otherwise pale green , even yellowish , leaf . |
| 27 | She was pleased with herself for selling the Noah 's Ark but sorry to see it go , with the little Finn in jeans and tee-shirt inside it . |
| 28 | I pushed open the little gate and walked to the desk . |
| 29 | Cassie crossed the grass and stood by the little gate . |
| 30 | Only the little gate now . |