Example sentences of "[adv] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The daily routines of most working class wives left conspicuously little time for leisure . |
| 2 | But although we may be confident that a gradient exists , and influences subsequent development , we usually have no idea what it is a gradient of , and rather little idea of how genes are actually switched on and off . |
| 3 | Support from grandparent' to grandchild is rather more straightforward , although again rather little evidence exists . |
| 4 | To date , however , there has been rather little evidence on the means of transmission of difficulties . |
| 5 | spoken language typically contains rather little subordination |
| 6 | Theories that suppose latent inhibition to be a function of what the stimulus itself predicts have been compelled to introduce special explanations to deal with the fact of context — specificity — and , as we shall see , they have done so with rather little success . |
| 7 | In our discussion so far we have concentrated particularly on the physical context in which single utterances are embedded and we have paid rather little attention to the previous discourse co-ordinate . |
| 8 | The first is that there is rather little reason to associate the coercive pressure of a dominant or majority current of opinion or belief with democracy . |
| 9 | Among transition metal hydrides the mass of the metal atom has rather little effect ; frequencies are in the range 2200–1700 cm -1 , the precise value depending on the metal and the other ligands involved . |
| 10 | ‘ She was a lovely , jolly little child with the most beautiful big eyes . |
| 11 | Except ‘ Three Little Birds ’ , which , although it might have sounded like just a jolly little song , was , in fact , a metaphorical indictment of the whole superpower system . |
| 12 | I saw his grave when I took a short cut through the churchyard — a modest , friendly , even jolly little grave , where in summer moon-daisies and red clover grew , and quaking grass which little children call shivery-shakes . |
| 13 | ‘ Jolly little tune , ’ Shufflebotham said . |
| 14 | It was such a jolly little lighthouse , white , and standing at the very end of a promontory . |
| 15 | There are destroyers behind the wings , maybe , but they do n't play a jolly little team game , it does n't work that way . |
| 16 | This is probably partly because it is always possible to land one on grass ( or any other hard surface ) with remarkably little damage , especially if the ground is wet . |
| 17 | Present-day writers are generally in agreement that the position of the unmarried mother under the Poor Law showed remarkably little change before World War II . |
| 18 | Again , there is remarkably little evidence to support ( or indeed refute ) the argument that an ‘ active and healthy lifestyle ’ can delay the onset of disease and disability in later life . |
| 19 | To conclude , the fact that there has been to date remarkably little progress towards an independent discipline of material culture is due , at least in part , to the particular history of that field within anthropology . |
| 20 | Yet this considerable variation in organizational model appears to arouse remarkably little interest in its consequences . |
| 21 | So far fusion has produced remarkably little interest outside its own community and the media , which welcome any significant scientific result with an unhealthy optimism . |
| 22 | The intellectuals of the Enlightenment showed , in general , remarkably little interest in the structure of government provided it was pursuing what they saw as the correct policies , those directed towards greater tolerance and efficiency and the happiness and welfare of mankind as a whole . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Yet there has been remarkably little research activity in this area . |
| 25 | Although a good deal has by now been written about the language and putative language problems of Caribbean children in British schools , remarkably little research has actually been done to study the linguistic behaviour of Caribbeans in Britain . |
| 26 | A simpler interpretation is that the experimenters have rediscovered what Lashley ( 1950 ) showed many years ago , that partial removal of the cortical area to which the dorsal lateral geniculate body projects , has remarkably little effect on simple form discrimination tasks and that it is only when the entire cortical projection zone is removed that severe deficits , detectable in the simple behavioural paradigms we use , emerge . |
| 27 | Football trade magazines such as Shoot , Match , Football Monthly , World Soccer and newcomers like Inside Football have never been the epitome of style , and unsurprisingly little change is found here . |
| 28 | This may come more naturally and easily to some than to others , but it is possible that where a prolonged conscious effort has been made to tap this creative source , greater understanding and appreciation result than where only little work has been needed . |
| 29 | They are interesting things to erect since one rushes round doing things to apparently little effect and then suddenly it 's all there . |
| 30 | ‘ WHAT surprises me now is not that my generation had so little sex in the 1950s , but that , given the circumstances , we had any at all ’ — Sir Peter Hall . |