Example sentences of "[adv] little [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compliments always caught Miss Gilberd on the hop , she was so little used to them . |
| 2 | Mathesius ( quoted in Firbas , 1974 : 17 ) compares English and Czech in this respect and concludes that in English , the grammatical principle ( i.e. syntax ) plays the leading role in the hierarchy of word order principles and that ‘ English differs from Czech in being so little susceptible to the requirements of FSP as to frequently disregard them altogether ’ . |
| 3 | Six papers had been accepted for publication during his first Oxford year , but he was as little pleased with them as with The Woodland Life : ‘ I am impatient to get to Lincoln College ’ he wrote to Hooton . |
| 4 | They see routine non-manual workers as little different to manual workers : they neither own the means of production nor do they perform important social control functions for capitalists . |
| 5 | She told him about open heart surgery , and lasers ; about credit cards and the cost of living , and the vast expense involved when buying a moderately sized residence like Rose Cottage , which he regarded as little short of scandalous , totally unable to begin to comprehend such vast sums of money being paid for such a relatively small return . |
| 6 | However , foreign commentators were almost unanimous in assessing that the less-than-ringing endorsement for the preservation of the union , especially in the Russian Federation and the Ukraine , represented a blow to Gorbachev 's authority ( many people had looked upon the referendum as little short of a vote of confidence in Gorbachev ) . |
| 7 | However , the most distinctive part was not the chalk uplands but the little Thames-side hundred of Stoke , lying on the richest soil and closest to London , where little short of half the aggregate wealth belonged to just a dozen men — 2½ per cent of the listed inhabitants — rated at £40 and upwards , indeed practically one-third belonged to the five rated at £100 or more . |
| 8 | ‘ There was that little upset with one of the actresses , but I do n't believe they were particularly close . |
| 9 | Leonard was full-blooded , physically and temperamentally , and these teenage years saw him active in a wide range of sporting interests : cycling ( one of his favourite pastimes then ) , skiing , swimming , canoeing , sailing and ice-hockey ( in which he made the school team ) , boxing and wrestling , though he was very little involved in the last two . |
| 10 | There was very little laughable about the sardonic promises of destruction and pain which echoed from the loudspeakers of Wembley and the White City , Earls Court and the Albert Hall , five years before the war began . |
| 11 | There seemed to be very little wrong with his competitive edge , or his nerve . |
| 12 | The situation of these workers was very little different from that of the members of the middle classes and , indeed , many of them , in income terms alone , were , from time to time , effectively within that social category . |
| 13 | Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it ( s merely ‘ being sent ’ to a place , and Very little different from becoming a parcel . |
| 14 | In the surrounding countryside farming continues in a way that is very little different from what was left to us by the Romans , though sunflowers have recently begun to replace some of the olive trees . |
| 15 | He was too much of a politician ever to outrage religious feelings as Rufus did , but his smooth words concealed a purpose very little different from that of Rufus . |
| 16 | The new client group included many disadvantaged young people whose needs , it soon became apparent , were very little different from those traditionally thought of as having learning difficulties or behaviour problems . |
| 17 | Although the action required of the compositor is very little different from that required by a typewriter , the atmosphere surrounding the machine would be perceived as a very " masculine " one . |
| 18 | As Halsey concludes ‘ the likelihood of a working class boy receiving a selective education in the mid-fifties and mid-sixties was very little different from that of his parents ’ generation thirty years earlier . ’ |
| 19 | Business performance in the city centre is very little different from last year . |
| 20 | Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it is merely being ‘ sent ’ to a place , and very little different from becoming a parcel |
| 21 | It may seem that once stalling and premises costs have been accounted for , there is very little left about which to make decisions . |
| 22 | There is very little left for the government to privatise , and attention will soon swing to the NHS , which has been a financial embarrassment to the Tories for too long . |
| 23 | If we were to start banning every product which could be swallowed by a child , there would be very little left on the market in terms of toys . ’ |
| 24 | Slave-owners of this character , in frustrating gradual reform , had shown ‘ language and conduct … such as fall very little short of actual rebellion ’ . |
| 25 | He had thought of her as essentially a private woman who would be very little concerned with her neighbours or their problems . |
| 26 | They now seemed too cautious , too reluctant to admit to the most defective aspects of the post-medieval Catholic tradition , too little aware of the real situation in the Church of the southern hemisphere ( whose voice was heard remarkably little in the Council 's debates ) . |
| 27 | News from missionaries , investigative visits and subsequent writing on the West Indies by Charles Stuart , Joseph Sturge and others provided the kind of detail which permitted attacks on the operation of the system as too little different from slavery to be supported as substantial progress . |