Example sentences of "[verb] little [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ribose ring puckers are not well defined at this resolution , and were not specifically restrained during refinement , but deviate little from their original C2'- endo conformation in the initial model . |
| 2 | They were stars of the hard left , but we have heard little about them during the election struggle . |
| 3 | I 've heard little about you since . |
| 4 | ‘ There are more women caring for elderly relatives than looking after children under five but as yet we 've heard little about it . |
| 5 | It was solely permissive — but it was precisely those owners who cared little for their sites who were likely to refuse protection . |
| 6 | They cared little for themselves ; they were in and out of hospital for drug addiction and overdoses and abortions . |
| 7 | However , he cared little about his life at this time , and it was possible that this lone female might be in need of courteous assistance . |
| 8 | The model contributes little to our understanding of why ‘ hooliganism ’ is synonymous with soccer , why it is more prevalent at certain times in history than others , and why it is predominantly a male , lower-working-class phenomenon . |
| 9 | ‘ Pleasant or not , it matters little to us , ’ she retorted . |
| 10 | Moody 's and S&P sell reams of information on the companies they rate , but say little about themselves . |
| 11 | I bantered little with myself as I drove home later that night . |
| 12 | Even this one example suggests that this objection has little to it . |
| 13 | The drawback of this system is that the clinical teacher works only briefly with each student and has little on which to assess progress . |
| 14 | She has little in her mind or in her mouth other than platitudes . |
| 15 | But nearly half of all the pasta eaten in Britain is the canned variety , which often owes little to its Italian ancestry . |
| 16 | They point out that well known communication graphic techniques such as pie charts often do a good job of summarising data but are of little use as exploratory tools since they reveal little about their structure . |
| 17 | Both turbine options were in close formation in the static at Farnborough and a superficial look would show little between them . |
| 18 | Although the former heads of the two securities houses added little to their previous statements , Tabuchi admitted on Aug. 29 that Nomura 's links with Japan 's organized crime syndicates , which had been revealed in July [ see p. 38342 ] , were currently under investigation and might prove to have been more extensive than had been initially suggested . |
| 19 | He skimmed the accompanying text , which added little to what Francesca had already told him , filling up the two columns with a recital of Tristram 's career beginning with his legendary recording of ‘ Panis Angelicus ’ as a thirteen-year-old treble at St Joe 's . |
| 20 | These statements added little to what Arafat had already said but such casuistry , the decision to limit official contact with the PLO to the US embassy in Tunis , and the warning that any terrorist incident attributable to a PLO faction would render US recognition of the PLO void , suggested that the outgoing US administration had acted with considerable reluctance . |
| 21 | Despite his enthusiastic support for the religious changes , rewards in pensions added little to his inheritance . |
| 22 | The reasons for her popularity however owed little to her musical or thespian talents . |
| 23 | Judge Peter Greenwood said : ‘ The cruelty you showed was without mercy and you can expect little from me . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The cruelty you showed when kidnapping decent people was without mercy and you can expect little from me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The cruelty you showed when kidnapping decent people was without mercy and you can expect little from me . ’ |
| 26 | Dysart reveals little about himself , even to those close to him . |
| 27 | Yet for all his own pleasure at tracing this evidence , Dixon could see little in his report which might have accounted for the look of extraordinary triumph he had seen on Morse 's face when he reported in at 2.45 p.m . |
| 28 | A crowd of about 2,000 gathered on the Mapplewell Junior and Infant School playing fields to sing hymns , and , of course , Handel 's ‘ Hallelujah ’ chorus — a programme that again differed little from their original one , or that of Holmfirth . |
| 29 | But where this occurred it took the form of state control and the resulting technologies and forms of industrialisation differed little from their capitalist counterparts . |
| 30 | I felt that this conversation was adding little to my , or my listeners ' , knowledge of how to buy a coffin , so I thanked him kindly for his time and said goodbye . |