Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] have be little " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 2 | Although John Ellis , a botanical and zoological Fellow , had written to Linnaeus , ‘ Miller 's Dictionary is the chief book that is read by gentlemen who study the art of gardening ’ , there seems to have been little pleasant exchange between them . |
| 3 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 4 | However , there seems to have been little empirical work done on such courses . |
| 5 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 6 | This requires careful planning , especially in the allocation of committee rooms for use by committees which are to be broadcast , but , in practice , there appears to have been little difficulty . |
| 7 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
| 8 | Thus despite the companies ' use of highly toxic chemicals , such as cyanide , there appears to have been little or no state regulation of the environmental impact of mining , until the Navan mines project . |
| 9 | In the more notorious slum districts , there appears to have been little or no respect for the law . |