Example sentences of "[pron] has little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouting at cats or hitting them has little effect . |
| 2 | TWO options have been put forward in the literature : ( 1 ) Sivapithecus is related to humans , which has little support ; and ( 2 ) Sivapithecus is related to the orang-utan. both of these may be combined with the third possibility that the orang-utan is the nearest living relative to humans , although there is much evidence against this proposition ( Box 1 ) . |
| 3 | However that may be , we are dealing with a curious amalgam of services which has little coherence or consistency . |
| 4 | In January 214 ( 31% ) of them voted for a private member 's bill based on it ( which has little chance of becoming law ) . |
| 5 | In such a zone the refusal rate was a high as 40 per cent compared with only 20 per cent in mid-Devon , which has little protection . |
| 6 | And equally important , it is made at a level of generality which has little connection with the work of social scientists . |
| 7 | In fact , school is an institution which has little meaning for ‘ the lads ’ : it has merely to be ‘ got through ’ as enjoyably as possible — by ‘ having a laff ’ and rehearsing the loyalties and possibilities for defiance and resistance which will be carried over into work . |
| 8 | I am not , though , recommending the ideological antiquarianism of the New Historicism , which has little interest in poetry as such . |
| 9 | Often , in fact , you 're responding to an unconscious pull towards that person which has little basis in reality . |
| 10 | For instance , when coaching people in the carve gybe , rather than simply say ‘ Bend zee knees ’ which has little effect , it is better to ask them to try and get their knees to touch the water as they bank into the turn . |
| 11 | They will not offer the clarity of full-scale HDTV , which is more than twice that of conventional sets , but they will outperform them — and confuse the would-be consumer , who has little idea what HDTV is . |
| 12 | Mr Waigel is a Bavarian born and bred who has little love for Bonn but none at all for the former Prussian capital . |
| 13 | So I can recommend this book only to someone who has little knowledge of green issues and the science involved . |
| 14 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |
| 15 | A rich and aged relative , who has little use left for his wealth , refuses to give him the money he needs to go to Bali ( he has at last made up his mind ) , but there is an opportunity to steal it from him . |
| 16 | MP Neville Trotter is a pear-shaped Tory with pear-shaped vowels who has little appeal to the people of Meadowell , and a dwindling appeal in the middle-class suburbs where unemployment is also climbing . |
| 17 | The person who graduates from television 's school , then , is someone who has little imagination and few skills in logical analysis and critical discussion ; they have a marked preference for images rather than reality ; and a deep and increasing commitment to just one activity : watching television . |
| 18 | However , the pitch itself has little grass on it and looks flat . |
| 19 | Now the authorities say she has little chance of getting them back . |
| 20 | In contrast to the immediate post-war generation of Conservative leaders , Churchill , Eden , Butler , and Macmillan , she has little sense of guilt ( ‘ bourgeois guilt ’ was the phrase she used in New York to the Institute of Economic Studies on 15 September 1975 ) for the unemployment of the 1930s . |
| 21 | She has little patience with any feminist arguments against such pin-ups . |
| 22 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 23 | Particularly , she has little time for a group called Yello , the Swiss electro-band with whom she collaborated on a single last year , much in the way Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys or Gene Pitney and Marc Almond have . |
| 24 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 25 | She has little interest in achieving consensus . |
| 26 | One has little retention for scale and scale relationships . |
| 27 | In France they have devised a logical system whereby senior officials of the Bureau d'Enquête d'Accident are formally recognised by the magistrate as officials of his court , thereby relieving the magistrate himself of much responsibility relating to highly technical matters of which he has little comprehension while at the same time enabling the professional investigators immediate access to the wreckage of the aircraft and its records , etc. in their pursuit of the cause of the accident . |
| 28 | Many college curricula , especially in scientific and technological subjects , subject the student to such a barrage of facts and opinions that he has little chance to pause and assess what has taken place so far . |
| 29 | However , William Matteuzzi 's Almaviva is so weak that it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to picture her preferring the young Count to the lecherous old Dr Bartolo ; and although the late Giuseppe Patane conducts the score with obvious affection , he has little flare for dramatic pacing . |
| 30 | He does not go abroad much which is as well since he has little sense of direction and has twice been found many miles from home wandering the streets . |