Example sentences of "[art] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 2 | The little evidence there is suggests a view which is anyway plausible , that the consuls dealt with cases involving the distinguished ( clarissimae personae ) and large sums , although no limit is known . |
| 3 | On telecommunications , Banegas took the opportunity to criticise the government for the little interest it has shown in putting an end to the import of unauthorised pirate telephones , 3m of which are now in Spain . |
| 4 | The little evidence I could obtain suggested that the explanation was the usual one in criminal justice short-comings : a rising demand not met with increasing resources . |
| 5 | And your mother thought to herself , honey , of the short life ahead of her , of all the worth and power within her and the little use it would be , and she felt such a weeping bitterness that she cursed humankind . |
| 6 | The paucity of available evidence concerning the foundation of the institution and the activities of the early Muftis means that one can hope to do no more than to draw reasonable inferences from the little evidence that does exist ; and some of what can be said about these problems involves a projection backward from the activities of later Muftis and will therefore be considered in greater detail in later sections . |
| 7 | The little evidence available about the level or accuracy of memory in everyday driving situations suggests that it may be surprisingly poor . |
| 8 | In many Third World countries , therefore , comprador is a term of abuse and , as a consequence has lost most of the little value it ever had for analysis . |
| 9 | In this way , with a little money but much commitment , a great deal can be done . ’ |
| 10 | But it does not take long to decide that the experiment is being conducted with skill , and that the pursuits have at least a little in common . |
| 11 | It takes a little time to sec that you 're not moving forward any more , either because you do n't know how or because there is n't anywhere to move forward to . |
| 12 | With a little practice you should be able to brew 40 pints of good cheap beer in less than three hours ' work . |
| 13 | I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life . |
| 14 | That 's a little way off yet . |
| 15 | A little luck would not have come amiss , either . |
| 16 | The best thing would probably be just to walk around to keep warm and then to snatch a little rest in a doorway somewhere if need be . |
| 17 | A little way along , I saw a path running up the bank to my left and on the top of this bank there was a rather eccentric mock-Gothic porchway . |
| 18 | What 's needed is a little thought — and a little heart . |
| 19 | At traffic lights she gave it a wary smile , slid into gear and played Nina Simone 's ‘ I need a Little Sugar in My Bowl ’ . |
| 20 | Sit with the music , blow a little smoke , time enough to snap out of it , sip the brandy . |
| 21 | I actually do believe baby requires a little time on her own . ’ |
| 22 | Obviously you can not know in advance which type of mat will be used at a particular tournament , so you should do your final training on any type of mat , just to get used to the feel , and then try to use any free time you may have on the actual competition areas to get a little practice in beforehand . |
| 23 | Otherwise you may aggravate something that , with a little rest and good management , could have been no more than a minor injury . |
| 24 | It is worth spending a little time to ponder the significance of this . |
| 25 | This kind of bravura performance is only legitimate if the context and music allow the dancer to ‘ steal a little time ’ . |
| 26 | It will take a little time for me to forget the hurt and the disappointment … |
| 27 | And though , once she hit her formidable histrionic stride , it was possible to feel that a little of Bette Davis went a long way , her excesses were surely preferable to the homogenised blandness of those mass-produced Hollywood sirens of whom a lot went a very little way indeed . |
| 28 | Henderson did get a little help from his friends , in particular a massive 484ft third-inning home run from Jose Canseco on Saturday that came within 13 rows of hitting the roof of the SkyDome but dropped instead into the hands of a surprised Toronto fan . |
| 29 | Formerly a private hotel , it has needed only a little work to convert it to its new use . |
| 30 | Receiving a copy of the AGM Minutes from the Branch prompts Air Mail to give a little space to describe the activities and efforts being made by the Branch Committee , a committee which has been virtually unchanged since the Branch was re-activated six years ago . |