Example sentences of "been little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The report was published in July 1986 and concluded that apparently there had been little work done on the effects of skill mix on patient services and that " a higher priority should be given by management to achieving the best value for money by the adoption of methods of allocating staffing resources more closely related to the needs of patients and ward objectives . |
| 32 | There has been little work on the pathogenesis of migrating larvae of S. equinus . |
| 33 | Even though various initiatives have been undertaken by way of the provision of guidance , there has been little knowledge of the actual practices employed within the nontrading segments of the public sector . |
| 34 | But so far there has been little sign of it . |
| 35 | Here in Drearton ward , Harrow West constituency , there 's been little sign of the other parties . |
| 36 | So far , though , there has been little sign of anyone wanting to start a branch in London . |
| 37 | There had been little sign of such popular sentiment at the time of the earlier enclosure — the attitude of John Rous can not be matched elsewhere . |
| 38 | But even where there may seem to have been little affection shown and where few apparent links remain , emotional ties that go back to earliest days are strong , and feelings about the death of a parent are bound to go deep . |
| 39 | In August 1989 William J. Bennett , the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy , had called for the government " aggressively [ to ] implement " random testing of federal workers , but by January 1990 there had been little increase in the numbers tested due to litigation . |
| 40 | There had been little enthusiasm for the renewal of war in Scotland in 1332 , and apart from his victory at Halidon Hill Edward had scarcely distinguished himself on his Scottish campaigns . |
| 41 | There has been little discussion , however , about what this ‘ tragedy ’ might be or mean . |
| 42 | So far there has been little discussion of the superego for the simple reason that there has been little cause to mention it . |
| 43 | There has been little discussion on the necessary degree of probability of a kind of damage occurring . |
| 44 | To execute him for treason indeed would have been little help to the government in its attempt to crush and discredit the Reformation , but they could not proceed against him for heresy in due form until England was reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 45 | While attention has been paid to the modification of adjudicative procedures to meet the requirements of a particular area , there has been little thought directed to the broader question of whether adjudication is the correct decision-making process on which to be fashioning procedures . |
| 46 | There could have been little expectation , especially after the war resumed in 1369 , that circumstances would again favour papal taxation : yet they did . |
| 47 | There had been little looting . |
| 48 | But there has been little legislation directed specifically towards women . |
| 49 | Since its construction almost thirty years before there had been little capital investment . |
| 50 | There has , therefore , been little chance in the past for a political growth of class consciousness among subordinate groups . |
| 51 | If child B has had a relatively unstressful childhood , he will attain adulthood with a lower vulnerability than A. Child C , who also had a stressful upbringing , but inherited a tendency to react much less strongly or negatively to the environment , will also be less vulnerable in adulthood than A. However , there has so far been little cross-fertilisation between research on genetic factors in depression and research on life events . |
| 52 | There had been little damage to Galilee or Rashidiyeh in the exchange of fire but , not far from the entrance to the Palestinian camp , I was briefly introduced to a man who was described as the ‘ leader of joint PLO forces in Rashidiyeh . |
| 53 | However , although the Education Act 1981 shifted the emphasis in education from handicap to special educational need , based on assessment of curriculum requirement rather than on the child 's disability , there has been little progress in the integration of the handicapped in education . |
| 54 | Apart from the agreements on ozone depletion , which reflected the urgency of the issue , there has been little progress towards global management of global issues . |
| 55 | There has been little progress in reaching agreement on harmonising excise duties , and serious negotiations on this issue are not due to commence until early in 1992 . |
| 56 | Amidst such massive coverage there has been little television interest in what ordinary people get out of sport . |
| 57 | But in the midst of the holocaust wrought by long-term unemployment on the jobless , there has been little time to examine the effect of the current climate on the working population . |
| 58 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 59 | Nevertheless there has been little interest in exploring for Zechstein gas in the North Sea and the test results so far encountered have been very discouraging . |
| 60 | If there has been little precise guidance to team members about the professional relationships and operational procedures to be followed , so , equally , there has been little guidance about their relationship to the rest of the service system . |