Example sentences of "has little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a plea , although laudable , has little chance of becoming reality in the present organizational set-up , for it ignores the semantic difference in the uniformed ‘ polis 's ’ role and that of the 10–15 per cent of the institution who form the élite in the CID . |
| 2 | Apart from those of us who can afford to throw eggs , the electorate has little chance to do battle with our would-be lords and masters . |
| 3 | The Willis Bill , which is due for a second reading in the House of Lords on 6 May , says that anyone who sells , distributes or otherwise manes available am machine capable of reproducing a sound recording or cinematograph film shall be deemed to have authorised infringement of the copyright , in a sound recording or film Although the Bill has little chance of getting any further it will achieve one aim — to generate publicity for the record and film industry 's call for a tax or levy on blank audio and video tape . |
| 4 | What is carried ‘ in the mind ’ — in their world of ‘ internal objects ’ — has little chance to be reorganized in a mature fashion because they are continually being pressed into ‘ childhood emotional relationships which result from integration in a pattern demanded by mass production ’ ( Pederson-Krag , 1951 ) . |
| 5 | In January 214 ( 31% ) of them voted for a private member 's bill based on it ( which has little chance of becoming law ) . |
| 6 | The result is that , by and large , the fiscal has to take the case as the police have presented it ; he does not seize the opportunity to come into direct contact with the investigation and has little chance of finding out what the police have ignored . |
| 7 | Many college curricula , especially in scientific and technological subjects , subject the student to such a barrage of facts and opinions that he has little chance to pause and assess what has taken place so far . |
| 8 | Now the authorities say she has little chance of getting them back . |
| 9 | Pendrich has also qualified for the sprint freestyle , but currently lies in eleventh place and has little chance of replacing Sheppard as the new champion . |
| 10 | Anyone hit in the upper part of the body has little chance of surviving . |
| 11 | This time the government has little choice but to accept . |
| 12 | But given the nature of his work Sam has little choice but to rely on informers . |
| 13 | But it has little choice . |
| 14 | He points out that the young fellow or girl with only modest ‘ A ’ levels now has little choice : they have to do without — or go across the water . |
| 15 | Nowadays they may be esteemed by their peers who know something of their work , but this esteem has little currency value in the committee-rooms where performance is appraised . |
| 16 | It has little sympathy with intruders . |
| 17 | He has little sympathy for the Arab nationalism that destroyed the Jews of Baghdad and the Christian Assyrians , and he quotes at length from Stephen Bloom 's ‘ almost lyrical ’ account of a Romanian childhood where Germans , Slovaks , Russians , Greeks , Turks , Armenians and Jews provided harmonious diversity . |
| 18 | He is persuaded to teach the talented Marin Marais but when he detects the young musician has little sympathy for his belief music is only an expression for sorrow , he returns to his hermit 's existence . |
| 19 | Other survey evidence suggests , moreover , that a majority of the population has little sympathy towards those most in need of help from the welfare state . |
| 20 | He has little sympathy with those in his party who want more radical action . |
| 21 | The board usually has little credibility ; there is little reliable financial information , no management , assets or money . |
| 22 | After years of political repression , the education system has little credibility with those it is supposed to serve . |
| 23 | In contrast to the immediate post-war generation of Conservative leaders , Churchill , Eden , Butler , and Macmillan , she has little sense of guilt ( ‘ bourgeois guilt ’ was the phrase she used in New York to the Institute of Economic Studies on 15 September 1975 ) for the unemployment of the 1930s . |
| 24 | He does not go abroad much which is as well since he has little sense of direction and has twice been found many miles from home wandering the streets . |
| 25 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |
| 26 | They will not offer the clarity of full-scale HDTV , which is more than twice that of conventional sets , but they will outperform them — and confuse the would-be consumer , who has little idea what HDTV is . |
| 27 | Despite the eager shouting of his Goblin mates , the Fanatic really has little idea of where he is going , and will happily plough through troops from his own side if they get in the way . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the company seems to have lost its way of late — even Mr Sugar is on record as saying he has little idea of where the next 1512 is going to come from . |
| 29 | The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating . |
| 30 | Greenpeace has little idea of how radioactive the waste was in the four incidents described , or of how it was sealed in protective casing . |