Example sentences of "[ex0] has be little [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There has been little change in the combined market share of the six national brewers owning more than 2,000 pubs since February 1989 .
2 According to the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , there has been little change in breast-feeding patterns in the last decade .
3 In Britain , to date , there has been little experience of union influence over selection amongst the technical and social options for information technology .
4 At this age , there has been little hassle from the police : only an awareness that crime scars their neighbourhood .
5 Even though various initiatives have been undertaken by way of the provision of guidance , there has been little knowledge of the actual practices employed within the nontrading segments of the public sector .
6 There has been little work on the pathogenesis of migrating larvae of S. equinus .
7 But so far there has been little sign of it .
8 So far , though , there has been little sign of anyone wanting to start a branch in London .
9 For decades , there has been little choice within the UK credit within the UK credit insurance market .
10 What happens to the grief reaction when there has been little warning of the impending death , or for various reasons , where there has been no opportunity to be involved in the preparation process ?
11 There has been little development at Bootle and on the Wirral site .
12 There has been little development in style since the 1920s though the range of materials has increased .
13 There has been little discussion on the necessary degree of probability of a kind of damage occurring .
14 So far there has been little discussion of the superego for the simple reason that there has been little cause to mention it .
15 There has been little support from independent black defence organizations and authentic community groups whose actions go far beyond the narrow categories in which antiracism can operate .
16 Mr Yeltsin and the West have a shared interest in claiming the biggest figure for the aid package , so there has been little dissent over the headline-seizing ‘ $13 billion ’ .
17 Apart from the agreements on ozone depletion , which reflected the urgency of the issue , there has been little progress towards global management of global issues .
18 However , although the Education Act 1981 shifted the emphasis in education from handicap to special educational need , based on assessment of curriculum requirement rather than on the child 's disability , there has been little progress in the integration of the handicapped in education .
19 There has been little progress in reaching agreement on harmonising excise duties , and serious negotiations on this issue are not due to commence until early in 1992 .
20 There has been little escape from St Valentinism on television , with even two of the dreaded soap operas niftily timing weddings for around now .
21 There has been little talk of America 's dependence on oil imports — or its missing energy policy .
22 Although local authorities and social service departments are in the process of developing systems of assessment in relation to care management , there has been little debate about the principles which ought to underpin assessment processes , nor about the purpose , scope , and content of comprehensive assessment with older people .
23 There has been little debate concerning the ‘ what ’ and the ‘ why ’ of deaf education .
24 While putting sex back into politics , there has been little recognition of how appearance affects the politics of sex .
25 Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families .
26 Since then , there has been little news of the orangs , other than that three are still in the research laboratory , and seven are in a cage at Bukit Soeharto .
27 There has been little mention of this aspect so far , but it appears that Customs will be empowered to vary the terms by publishing a notice ; that indicates that it will be quite strictly enforced .
28 The biggest daily peak comes around 5.00 pm , as homes switch on before industry switches off : There has been little research on the way consumers would respond to the various kinds of incentive that could be built into the electricity price structure .
29 Although there has been much research on the determination of asset prices , there has been little research on what determines the volume of turnover in asset markets .
30 As yet there has been little research considering early retirement among women and its social meaning and impact .
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