Example sentences of "little [noun] [ex0] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Yeudall , who 's been involved in the Community for many years as worker , chairman and elected member said " My feelings about it being stripped is how very little building there is for just so much emotion and feeling in it . |
| 2 | It is depressing to hear from a leading Unionist , Ken Maginnis , how little faith there is in the talks process , without a fundamental change of attitudes . |
| 3 | This is a foundation which invites foreign scholars to Germany , and I was really surprised at just how little response there was . |
| 4 | What little story there is centres around a small clapped-out condo in Palm Springs where three friends ( Dag , Andy , and Claire ) have drifted from jobs or lives they despised . |
| 5 | The Act provides no definition of what amounts to a reasonable excuse and what little guidance there is , is provided by case law . |
| 6 | Speaking at the 1989 BEMAS Annual Conference , Martin Davies , Director of NCC , referred back to the early gloom and outrage , but then went on to say : ‘ What is remarkable is how little dissent and how little opposition there is now the overwhelming majority have accepted the idea of a National Curriculum . ’ |
| 7 | The emphasis was on judgement and discussion rather than precise measurement , but Allen said , ‘ It is surprising how little disagreement there is in positioning of our businesses on this matrix each year . ’ |
| 8 | What must be most striking to readers is how little difference there is in these two underlying premises for educational activity . |
| 9 | As he did so his hand accidentally brushed against her bare leg , and suddenly she was aware of how little difference there was between the shorts she was wearing now and the swimsuit she had worn earlier . |
| 10 | For if , as I suggested , the enormous vitality of the language of Ulysses can , among other things , make us smile and even laugh out loud , that fact alone will underscore how little room there is for laughter in the earlier texts . |
| 11 | whereas we 've got friends who 've got older children well a little bit there 's , yeah , three or four years between |
| 12 | it 's below zero on a It it 's just a little trick there 's no such thing as minus three . |
| 13 | You 've go in little houses there are have you ? |
| 14 | this , this little board there 's no room to work here |
| 15 | Tarvie trout fight like fury and are beautifully marked with bright red spots ; and in this delightful little loch there are some excellent fish which can almost pull the rod from your hand in their first mad rush . |
| 16 | Some little cars there was Range Rovers |
| 17 | Well , for a little while there was n't a movement , until a man in the third row from the front stepped forward . |
| 18 | As sure as God made little apples there is . |
| 19 | On leaving the little station there was always a sense of freshness and freedom . |
| 20 | Perhaps that little television there is hers . |
| 21 | The little ones there 's only seven of and that 's |
| 22 | The wolves milled around restlessly outside , while inside the little house there was much hushed argument as the piggies tried to convince the others to stand firm . |
| 23 | Any fullness of the sleeves at all , and as you go through the eighteen-forties , the sleeves gradually get tighter and tighter ; what little fullness there is comes either below the elbow or , or just on the elbow itself , so you can see the fairly , they are gathered sleeves , but the actual shoulder piece is very tight . |
| 24 | What little service there is at meal times also leaves much to be desired . |
| 25 | If it is dry they evolve leathery or waxy waterproof skins to conserve what little water there is . |
| 26 | However , despite the publicity given to the more extravagant claims about the impact of new technology on the level of unemployment , and the popular notion that the silicon chip is a job destroyer , a survey , published in 1979 , of some 400 documents on the effect of the new information technologies on employment showed ‘ how little foundation there is to existing studies , half of which are by pessimists ( often with a trade union background ) and the other half by optimists ( who tend to be on the employers ’ side ) ’ ( Institute for Research on Public Policy 1979 ) . |
| 27 | It is also important to stress the difference between the new Council Tax and the old Community Charge so people are aware how little chance there is of avoiding payment . |
| 28 | What little evidence there is suggests that these dispositions were interpreted as trusts . |
| 29 | The little evidence there is suggests a view which is anyway plausible , that the consuls dealt with cases involving the distinguished ( clarissimae personae ) and large sums , although no limit is known . |
| 30 | The evidence produced by the major enquiries which took place between 1816 and the 1840s has been variously treated by historians , but what little evidence there is for the earlier mills seems uniformly bleak . |