Example sentences of "[vb past] little [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of official Washington entertained little hope of an early improvement in East-West relations . |
| 2 | They laid little emphasis on the message of the prophets . |
| 3 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 4 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 5 | Israel 's talks with Syria made little headway on the major dispute between the two countries , centred on Israel 's occupation of the Golan Heights . |
| 6 | Proposals such as these aroused considerable debate in the 1930s ( particularly on the question of whether , for every job vacated by an older worker , a new one would be created for a younger person ) , but they made little headway with the National Government . |
| 7 | Understandably , given their numerical disadvantage , Grimsby made little headway in attack , although Alexander , at 6ft 4in , was of a nuisance value against a defence deprived by injury of Brian Kilcline 's aerial authority . |
| 8 | While many Alfonsists became increasingly attracted to fascism after 1931 , openly fascist organizations made little headway in Spain before 1936 . |
| 9 | However , following its 1989 electoral successes , the Republicans made little headway in the Jan. 28 , 1990 , Land elections in the Saarland [ see p. 37197 ] or in the March local elections in Schleswig-Holstein [ see p. 37330 ] . |
| 10 | She made little money from journalism , having criticized too many auras for her own good . |
| 11 | It looked very different to a nautical chart and made little sense to me , but I gradually deciphered some of the meaning from its weird markings . |
| 12 | Most of the conversation at meal times made little sense to her . |
| 13 | The Doctor 's conversation made little sense to Blake . |
| 14 | Lowell , holding her , made little sense of what she was saying . |
| 15 | Death made little sense at the best of times . |
| 16 | More generally , colonial criminal law made little allowance for variations in caste status . |
| 17 | Thus the company paid compensation during the opencast mining period in which the company extracted its highest profits from the mine : the cost made little dent in the company 's profits . |
| 18 | County cricket made little concession to spectators . |
| 19 | At the same time Fastolf s attitude to the practicalities of war reflect a hardheadedness which was essentially of this world : the plan which he drew up in 1435 favouring a ‘ tough ’ approach to the war made little concession to romantic ideas of chivalry which would influence a knight 's conduct in war . |
| 20 | WHILE the European Commission refused to give any public reaction to the Tories ’ victory , senior Brussels bureaucrats made little secret of the fact that they would have preferred a more pliable Labour government . |
| 21 | The Turks made little secret of their pleasure that the majority of the Central Asian delegations spoke in Turkish at the summit . |
| 22 | However , the two sides made little progress despite indications beforehand that relations were improving . |
| 23 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 24 | Preliminary discussions on holding joint legislative talks [ see p. 37041 ] made little progress on Nov. 29 , 1989 , when delegates were drawn into arguments about " openness " , reform in North Korea , the withdrawal of US troops from South Korea and the abolition of the South 's National Security Law . |
| 25 | Macmillan made little progress at Rambouillet . |
| 26 | He sought collaboration from various colleagues , including Marjory Stephenson ( see Chapter 8 ) in the nearby Department of Biochemistry , but made little progress before his departure from Cambridge to fill successively the chairs of pathology at Sheffield in 1932 and Oxford in 1935 . |
| 27 | Members of Iraqi opposition groups in exile met in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , at end-February , but made little progress in overcoming their differences regarding the future of Iraq or plans to topple the regime of President Saddam Hussein . |
| 28 | Although de Gaulle recognized as much , he and his regime made little progress in that direction , and it is surely too simplistic to lay the entire blame for this failure at Pompidou 's door ( as the General 's admirers are inclined to do ) . |
| 29 | In view of the fact that Miliutin was made chairman of the new local government commission the prospects for a generous solution looked good , but the commission made little progress in the first year of its life . |
| 30 | They described the King 's surprise and frustration , for usually the Pope made little difficulty over the annulment of royal marriages . |