Example sentences of "[noun] has [verb] little [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stonecutter 's Island has changed little since the British colonized Hong Kong . |
| 2 | Labour has gained little in its attempts to attack the public spending review . |
| 3 | Overall the KGB has achieved little in international terms . |
| 4 | Boswell 's description of the location corresponds with today 's scenery : wild heathland has altered little on Skye : ‘ The country around is a black dreary moor on all sides , except to the sea-coast , towards which there is a view through a valley … the place itself is green ground , being well drained , by means of a deep glen on each side , in both of which there runs a rivulet with a good quantity of water , forming several cascades which make a considerable appearance and sound . ’ |
| 5 | On the face of it section 6 of the 1980 Act has added little in the way of parental rights to section 76 of the 1944 Act . |
| 6 | The NHS has invested little in work schemes , although a few innovative services have established enterprises in such areas as gardening and horticulture , catering services and computer programming or word processing activities . |
| 7 | The proportion of urban dwellers has changed little during the present century , though in reality over 90 per cent of the population now effectively lives an urban form of existence . |
| 8 | The photograph shows the station as it was in 1937 ; its appearance has changed little to the present day . |
| 9 | Moreover its relative importance has changed little between 1981 and 1988 ( see Fig. 4.1 ) . |
| 10 | Certainly the picture has changed little during my teaching lifetime . |
| 11 | Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years . |
| 12 | They now have equipment to make locating whales and chasing them more efficient , but otherwise the method has changed little in a hundred years . |
| 13 | Delft is proud of its association with the Dutch master painter Jan Vermeer and the old town centre has changed little since the 17th century with drawbridges , tree-lined canals , large churches and narrow medieval streets and the view of this quaint red-roofed town from the 100 metre high steeple of the 14th century Nieuw Kerk is worth the climb . |
| 14 | The structure has suffered little at the hand of man , or from the lapse of time , so that without much imagination it is possible to picture it as the builders left it about the year 1410 . |
| 15 | However , the challenge is there to be met and oncogene manipulation may provide the next real step forward in a disease which has proved largely refractory to radio- or chemotherapy , and in which prognosis has changed little over the past 40 years . |
| 16 | ‘ Housing made available by volume housebuilders has changed little in decades . |