Example sentences of "[adv] little [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noting that despite the evidence of academic and government reports , which had pointed to widespread discrimination against young blacks , very little had been done to remedy the position , Scarman concluded that : ( a ) many young blacks believed that violence was an effective means of protest against their conditions ; and ( b ) far from the riots being a meaningless event , they were ‘ essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police ’ ( Scarman , 1981 , paras . |
| 2 | The difference between the early days and 1976 was that cars were going a lot faster — Lauda himself had been the first to break the magical seven-minute lap in 1975 — and that very little had been done to make the track safer . |
| 3 | Very little had been used . |
| 4 | In fact , outside the Europe of the Six very little had been achieved and very little interest had been displayed in integration and cooperation beyond the all-European organisations that had been set up at the end of the previous decade . |
| 5 | Consumers rapidly became aware that they had paid a low price because very little had been invested by manufacturers to ensure durability , integrity of the wordlist or good functionality as far as the software was concerned . |
| 6 | When Hale came to survey the law of rape in the seventeenth century , he was confronted by centuries in which very little had been said about the matter . |
| 7 | After the votes , the two documents were solemnly promulgated , but the bishops travelled back to their dioceses with a sense that too little had been achieved . |