Example sentences of "[verb] little [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has the usual complement of flowerbeds , vegetable patches , close-trimmed lawn , shrubs , trees and well-swept paths , and differs little in appearance from neighbouring gardens . |
| 2 | The big western lakes , Conn , Corrib and Mask , are producing little at present and the Galway Weir produced only five salmon for the week in spite of excellent conditions for fly fishing . |
| 3 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 4 | The result was that people cared little about slavery . |
| 5 | Henry VIII cared little about evidence or the finer points of law . |
| 6 | Before Tiananmen , Britain had ducked the question by professing to believe that most Hong Kong people cared little about politics , and that those who did favoured little or no change . |
| 7 | His own father had been a skilled mechanic ( a phrase which conveyed little to Clara ) and as he himself had managed to purchase by his own labours a three bedroomed semi-detached house in a pleasant suburban district , he might have been thought to have cause to feel fairly content with life . |
| 8 | We gain little from minute attention to the manufacturers ' congratulations for our choice of car , or from the swearing-in in court , and , on a first reading of a novel , it may be more important to follow those parts which forward the plot than those which set the scene . |
| 9 | But it was also because Britain , as a heavily industrialised nation , got little in return from Brussels under CAP payments . |
| 10 | In my experience a great number of these are people who lacked little in terms of orthodox belief or depth of experience but who have never understood why their faith is true . |
| 11 | Boswell 's description of the location corresponds with today 's scenery : wild heathland has altered little on Skye : ‘ The country around is a black dreary moor on all sides , except to the sea-coast , towards which there is a view through a valley … the place itself is green ground , being well drained , by means of a deep glen on each side , in both of which there runs a rivulet with a good quantity of water , forming several cascades which make a considerable appearance and sound . ’ |
| 12 | The technicalities of Zambia 's international grants and debt mean little to Texas Kasonde . |
| 13 | In the case of Owen and Huxley there was a complex relationship , for Owen had been almost his father-in-science ; but Owen had other serious reasons for seeing little in Darwinism . |
| 14 | Maguire and Dunwoody both looked to have good chances of completing trebles in the concluding Chailey Handicap Hurdle , but Maguire 's mount Manhattan Boy has yet to win outside selling company and faded into third , while Dunwoody 's mount Ilewin found little under pressure after looking really dangerous . |
| 15 | I used the PCW version and found little at fault , except , that the limitations imposed upon it by the hardware made it slow to operate . |
| 16 | When they drove out from the castle , Johnson found little in Dunbui 's yellow rock to engage his attention , other than the remarkable fact that the Guillemot , known locally as the Coot , while as small as a duck , lays eggs as large as those of a goose . |
| 17 | Studies are now being conducted into the habits of the maleo but so far ornithologists have added little since Wallace 's day to our knowledge of the bird . |
| 18 | These records establish his importance ( his operations were crucial to the establishment of the Angevin dynasty in England ) but supply little by way of biographical information . |
| 19 | These say little about gardening as such . |
| 20 | As the Congressional Quarterly commented in 1980 , ‘ on the economic front the administration has little to crow about . |
| 21 | Though Stark 's understanding of the sociology of knowledge was both more detailed and more sympathetic than that of the functionalist commentators , it owes little to Mannheim . |
| 22 | This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment : few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market . |
| 23 | But the impact of any national advertising for books — either by publishers when you could find it or by others — contributed little to sales . |
| 24 | With incomes pegged little above subsistence level , the domestic market remained very small , and what inter-regional trade did develop was generally in the hands of the boyars , the monasteries , and the Grand Prince . |
| 25 | and expect little in return . |
| 26 | Pointless samples start every song ; the beat is ridiculously loud and trying to be ravey but is too cluttered and shuffling ; the addition of a backing singer adds little to Peter Hooton 's irritating foghorn voice ; the guitars are still chiming , charmless indie-dance sounds throughout ; they still look like brickies and Peter Hooton still dances like my dad . |
| 27 | Version 1.15 adds little in functionality over prior releases . |
| 28 | For generations my family have been staunch Conservatives , but I am afraid my immediate family will no longer support a Government which cares little about animal welfare . |
| 29 | But my Mum , a reasonable representative of that vital retiree market we all hear about , cares little for brands : she worries about her tax form being opaque . |
| 30 | She cares little for appearance and does not abide by the usual social rules . |