Example sentences of "and [verb] little [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that the poll tax was used as a pretext for anarchists , militants and other left-wing Labour Party fellow travellers to encourage riots and civil disorder , but many joined in for the kicks and cared little about the issue . |
| 2 | Hintertux is a tiny hamlet and offers little in the way of nighttime activity but Mayrhofen , 15 minutes away , positively buzzes in the evening . |
| 3 | It has the usual complement of flowerbeds , vegetable patches , close-trimmed lawn , shrubs , trees and well-swept paths , and differs little in appearance from neighbouring gardens . |
| 4 | The religious zeal of the Portuguese set them apart from their British counterparts , who allowed complete religious freedom and interfered little with the indigenous culture . |
| 5 | The drawback of this system is that the clinical teacher works only briefly with each student and has little on which to assess progress . |
| 6 | and expect little in return . |
| 7 | I used the PCW version and found little at fault , except , that the limitations imposed upon it by the hardware made it slow to operate . |
| 8 | It is a gradual process , starting out from where teachers and children are and developing little by little , under their control , at a pace both feel comfortable with . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , it deals mainly with the fighting , and says little about internal politics or the king , although what it does say is very interesting . |
| 10 | Certainly the private services sector is growing in output and employment and suffered little from recession . |
| 11 | The style of dress within this group was unremarkable and differed little from that worn by people of this age group in most social contexts . |
| 12 | The most recent studies suggest that more than a third of employers discriminate against black applicants for jobs , and that levels of discrimination are the same for Asian and Afro-Caribbean applicants , for men and women , and vary little between job categories , although previous studies have documented higher levels of racial discrimination in relation to unskilled manual jobs ( Brown and Gay , 1985 ; Smith , 1977 ) . |
| 13 | A Shadow Cabinet containing senior figures like Lord Carrington , Whitelaw , Prior , Maudling , and Pym — most of whom had already achieved office under Mr Heath , were associated with his policies , and owed little to her — was hardly right-wing . |
| 14 | These high-pitched sounds are unlikely to be heard by passing fish , however , because although a few species , such as minnows , can hear as high as 8000 hertz , the majority are most sensitive to low frequencies and hear little above 500 hertz . |
| 15 | These methods are not at all standardised , and draw little in their design on the parent body of knowledge , multiple criteria decision making . |
| 16 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |