Example sentences of "little [noun] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was little noise from outside the windows and we appeared cut off from the city and from civilian life in general ; I lay in bed and pulled the sheets up over my nose . |
| 2 | Chairman John Haynes said the group 's performance had been achieved with little help from either the UK or the US economies ( although the latter was showing a significant increase in retail spending in the fourth quarter ) : turnover was up by less than 2% to £11.1m . |
| 3 | Since an interview is essentially a stimulus-response situation this means that there is very little standardization of either the stimuli or the recording of the responses . |
| 4 | But there is little inkling of how the mechanism will work , and we have to wait until December for the management executive and the Department of Education to come up with ideas . |
| 5 | So , a little reminder about how the good things in life — even the ones you buy — can be green and fun and of the highest quality . |
| 6 | I wish I could sit at the table and help cut up Annie 's food like I used to , and we 'd have crackers and we 'd wear those paper hats and have them little prezzies from inside the crackers . |
| 7 | It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , we still have relatively little idea of how the child is able to move from a practical understanding of how , for example , objects change location as a result of actions performed by people , to the more abstract and general understanding of semantic categories such as agent , action and object , which provide the basis for early syntax ( Bowerman 1976 ) . |
| 9 | There is little evidence of either the presence or practical aid of Russian priests in the afflicted rural areas , though a considerable number of West European churchmen came in with relief organizations . |
| 10 | Although men who were retained for life by a great magnate had an obligation to serve him in peace and war , and although there is little evidence about how the sub-contractors recruited their troops , neither the magnate captains nor their sub-contractors seem to have encountered much difficulty in persuading men to serve . |
| 11 | The Polish peasants were at best , he thought , poor , lazy and dirty , exceptionally ignorant , negligent of social obligation and therefore of little use to either the military or industry in any civilised and modern state . |
| 12 | More often there is little awareness of either the potential for independent living or how its denial is a denial of a basic human right . |
| 13 | There seemed little awareness of how the mainstream activities of the housing department are of relevance to social services ' role in enabling independent living . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Science ’ and ‘ technology ’ cover a very wide range of occupations , and in practice policy makers may have little idea of either the extent of skill shortages or how to redirect girls ' energies towards these . |
| 16 | He had very little idea of how the baby 's age could have been estimated . |
| 17 | She really had very little idea of how the diocesan senior clergy connected with the parish priests . |
| 18 | The wealth of feminist literature which theorises violence in society seems of little interest to either the police or the popular press . |