Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | While a number of discussions of the roots of urban unrest in the United States have noted the salience of political marginality in determining participation in violent protests ( Skolnick , 1969 ; Fogelson , 1971 ; Edelman , 1971 ; Knopf , 1975 ) , this issue has received relatively little attention in Britain . |
| 2 | Establishing the conditions under which plural reference is possible or even preferred has received relatively little attention until recently . |
| 3 | Whilst much has been written about its open fields , the community at Laxton has received relatively little attention . |
| 4 | Another mechanism which has previously been considered important is the repression of emotional events ( Freud , 1915/1957 ) , although there is some support for such an effect in the long term studies of personal memories discussed later , repression as a mechanism has received relatively little attention in the recent literature in cognitive psychology . |
| 5 | Italy has received comparatively little attention , although many of its foremost artists also turned to book illustration at least once in their working lives . |
| 6 | Popular music has received very little assistance from the various Arts Councils whose job is to disburse monies from the state and local authorities . |
| 7 | Selling as a topic has received very little academic study . |
| 8 | The subsidy implicit in official guarantees has received very little attention . |
| 9 | Tabel has received too little credit in the standard literature — Hubbard dismisses him as some sort of shadowy figure and takes little trouble to describe the 1721 harpsichord . |
| 10 | It is surprising that in his time and ever since , his culpability has received so little attention . |
| 11 | I believe , however , that the emphasis is justified because it has received so little systematic attention in the British literature . |
| 12 | So advanced was his method , that the apparatus for distillation has altered very little in 900 years . |
| 13 | The law on sex discrimination has provoked very little litigation in the educational context until the past few years , in contrast to the wealth of judicial consideration of the provisions concerned with sex equality in employment ( see Chapter 9 ) . |
| 14 | He has given very little account of how he spent his time , but he has said he spent the majority of that time with a travelling circus , both in this country and in the Irish Republic . |
| 15 | Another charge is that Mr Bush has given too little thought to the nature of a post-war settlement . |
| 16 | On the other hand , critics claim that the government has allocated too few resources to housing and has given too little emphasis to the needs of those ‘ at the bottom of the pile ’ in the housing market — the homeless and those on low incomes . |
| 17 | The simulated male orgasm has attracted very little attention by comparison with its female equivalent , not because it is n't as common , but because it 's in no one 's interest to publicize the fact . |
| 18 | The study of prospective memory is a topic which has attracted relatively little research and is not well understood , however , there has recently been an increase of interest in this area ( e.g. Ceci & Bronfenbrenner , 1985 ; Harris , 1984 ; Ellis , 1988 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ No officer living who has seen so little service as my Lord Marlborough is so fit for great commands , ’ commented William prophetically after the 40-year-old general had , in the autumn of 1690 , rapidly captured Cork and Kinsale . |
| 20 | Sybil 's reaction has to be assumed : she has said very little . |
| 21 | The growing consumer movement , reflected in this instance by the burgeoning of self-advocacy , and the advent of the normalisation movement has impinged very little as yet on these strongly established professional traditions . |
| 22 | Is the Secretary of State aware that he has done painfully little to create ladders of opportunity for disabled people because only one in three have jobs ? |
| 23 | The Labour Party has done precious little about the political education of its members ’ . |
| 24 | Japan has done too little , too late about tightening money policy and deflating its financial bubble . |
| 25 | Britain of course protests that ‘ no country is doing more ’ to reduce sulphur — but then no country in Western Europe creates so much pollution and has done so little ( nothing ) in the past . |
| 26 | Diana has always been in danger of getting the giggles at the least appropriate moment , and age has done very little to cure her . |
| 27 | This hypothetical person ( in this case , female ) also has done very little sport or exercise for years . |
| 28 | As Jane Salvage points out , nurse training to date has done very little to make nurses into strong and independent people : |
| 29 | The expansion of educational and professional training opportunities for women has done very little to alter the concentration of female professionals in ‘ domestic ’ professions : most professional women are still teachers or nurses — both jobs closely allied with the traditionally ‘ nurturant ’ role of women . |
| 30 | So far he has done very little ‘ work ’ for me . |