Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] little [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this leg of the patrol it was mostly long steams southward with a few breaks for routine rummage , and we saw little in the way of oil related activity . |
| 2 | Business came upon Tudor princes in a continuous stream of the important and the trivial , and they had little in the way of a bureaucratic substructure for deciding matters of executive detail . |
| 3 | Some limited progress has been made relatively recently in linking up the analysis of corporate strategy and some of the behavioural insights of strategy formulation and implementation ( see Quinn , Mintzberg and James , 1988 , for a text which refers to many of these ideas but which presents little in the way of synthesis ) , but not much has yet been done to tie that in with financial management . |
| 4 | MUCH stress is laid by educationalists on literacy and numeracy , but we hear little about the importance of being articulate . |
| 5 | These documents demonstrate a commitment to developing broadly based , open political agitation , but they contain little about a civil rights strategy in the north ; such a strategy could be deduced from the analysis which they contain , but the documents give no indication that it had been proposed in any detail . |
| 6 | I had read the pamphlets and knew of relaxation , meditation , imaging , healing and counselling but they meant little to me . |
| 7 | But it offered little to Joan . |
| 8 | This allows estimation of chronology and the identification of regional types , but it says little about the organisation of manufacture and dispersal . |
| 9 | The Act did tend to homogeneity , to the exploitation of meritocratic notions in pursuit of pragmatic ends , but it created little in the way of innovation or social levelling . |