Example sentences of "little [noun sg] has been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sides have agreed in principle to a referendum on the future of the territory , and the United Nations has been trying to achieve agreement on its details but , despite concessions by Polisario , little progress has been made . |
| 2 | Of the present pilot sites , relatively little progress has been made in terms of collecting outcome information . |
| 3 | Industry is another area where little progress has been made . |
| 4 | Apart from perhaps the use of story grammars [ Mandler & johnson , 1977 ] and the concept of macrostructure formation [ Kintsch & van Dijk , 1983 ] , very little progress has been made towards the implementation of discourse rules in NLP systems . |
| 5 | Relatively little progress has been made in answering these questions . |
| 6 | As you have not even seen your inheritance yet very little progress has been made . ’ |
| 7 | Although there are some countries where little progress has been made , most African nations now have , or are moving towards , multi-party political systems . |
| 8 | However , very little progress has been made in leading children towards conventionally accepted explanations . |
| 9 | Little progress has been made in terms of developing a theory of the disorder which would provide greater understanding of how and why these factors relate to each other . |
| 10 | What little money has been recovered remains the subject of a legal tussle in the courts which may yet take months to resolve . |
| 11 | For example , Spears ( 1982 ) states that little research has been done on the cost of rehabilitation of severely eroded hillsides . |
| 12 | Little research has been done into the problems generated by quota sampling since studies over thirty years ago pointed up some major problems ( Moser and Stuart 1953 ; Stephan and McCarthy 1958 ) . |
| 13 | Very little research has been carried out on teaching methods and the effectiveness of learning in nurse education . |
| 14 | Very little research has been done on the literature guides and only one on their use by students , so all we have is speculation . |
| 15 | Despite the Gulfs long history of oil pollution , little research has been done on the long-term impact on marine life there . |
| 16 | Very little research has been done into its cause among adolescents and adults . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 18 | However , little research has been carried out on the quantities of wood required . |
| 19 | Very little research has been carried out on domestic wares and it remains far from clear to what extent the domestic and funerary pottery production can be separated . |
| 20 | Very little research has been carried out on the functions of domestic pottery ; there must have been a variety of functions which , glibly , can be placed under the headings of cooking and storage , but behind such distinctions there is little clarity . |
| 21 | What little research has been done in this area suggests that the proportion of deprived youngsters heading for the great outdoors is disproportionately low . |
| 22 | Yet surprisingly little research has been conducted into the subject , at least in Britain . |
| 23 | Very little research has been conducted to discover how the barriers to effective co-operation might be knocked down . |
| 24 | Little research has been conducted on the needs of children who have a parent with epilepsy . |
| 25 | little research has been carried out on consistency of performance on similar test material , especially of mathematics in context . |
| 26 | As she points out : Remarkably little research has been carried out on the question of how these filters operate , and by whom they are operated , yet any policies aimed at harmonizing the interests of agriculture , conservation and recreation in the countryside must be based upon an understanding of this problem . |
| 27 | Yet , as Newton ( 1976 , p. 148 ) reminds us , while the ‘ dictatorship of the official ’ thesis has ‘ a certain commonsense plausibility … it has very little empirical evidence to support it … because little research has been done on the subject ’ . |
| 28 | Although a great deal of work has been done in the historical demography of the developed world relatively little research has been carried out in relation to the corresponding ( i.e. pre-demographic transition ) period in the Third World . |
| 29 | Although religious educators often refer to religion in the lives of children and young people , and recommend that religious education draw on this experience in their teaching , little research has been done in the area . |
| 30 | Little mention has been given to moral education , social and personal development , political understanding and economic awareness ( much beloved of Keith Joseph ) . |