Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] little [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But users ' manufacturer preferences changed little from previous years : 90.4% chose IBM , followed by Digital Equipment Corp at 45.6% , Hewlett-Packard Co at 43% , NCR Corp 41.1% . |
| 2 | Colnaghi contributed little to American museums in these years ( the 1930s and 1940s ) and what they did sell betrayed an unwillingness to adapt to the times . |
| 3 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 4 | He would be about 16 years old then but his sources of pleasure changed little with advancing years though his opportunities became less … . |
| 5 | This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment : few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market . |
| 6 | As the Congressional Quarterly commented in 1980 , ‘ on the economic front the administration has little to crow about . |
| 7 | I believe , therefore , that it is not implausible to infer from these findings that a substantial fraction of Labour voters reckoned merely that the party would be able to form a more competent and moderate government , and would be better able to defuse the crisis , although one should not discount the continued existence of a ‘ class reflex ’ vote owing little to any elaborate political calculation . |
| 8 | In most practical aspects heritable copyhold differed little from socage . |
| 9 | But in riding , quietness , and general environment , Mark 3 coaches gliding through the countryside at speed owe little to even a decade ago . |
| 10 | Hymn lists differ little from year to year and music programmes remain unadventurous . |
| 11 | Although most of the scientific jottings meant little to him , Dalgliesh could see that the time at which Lorrimer had started and finished each analysis had been carefully noted . |
| 12 | This great change in scientific thinking meant little to the masses , but they were able to see the great benefits of modern scientific practice despite the faltering of the economic system . |
| 13 | The average figure means little in this case , however . |
| 14 | In the Newtonian sense of work , as force applied over a distance , land animals do little in getting from here to there . |
| 15 | Except in the colourful person of the legendary John Winchcombe , the Berkshire woollen industry had little in the way of glamour . |
| 16 | The Iraqi air force attempted little in the way of a co-ordinated response to the allied air assault , and it appeared that Saddam Hussein was intent on preserving his aircraft either for a later stage of the campaign or for the duration of the entire war . |
| 17 | Consequently , parties have little by way of financial sanctions to bring against undisciplined members of congress . |
| 18 | The case law on judicial review provides little in the way of guidance on the question of whether a certain issue is one of law or fact . |
| 19 | Although the former heads of the two securities houses added little to their previous statements , Tabuchi admitted on Aug. 29 that Nomura 's links with Japan 's organized crime syndicates , which had been revealed in July [ see p. 38342 ] , were currently under investigation and might prove to have been more extensive than had been initially suggested . |
| 20 | This pricing philosophy owes little to that sacred cow , free market economics . |
| 21 | The Guernsey 's horns today are more commonly like those of the Isigny but perhaps the smaller Alderney owed little to the Isigny and more to the Léon . |
| 22 | If Cipriani achieved little in the way of goals , he did , as C.L.R.James put it in his biography of the man — ‘ expand our conception of West Indian public personalities ’ . |
| 23 | She liked Yeats well enough , and although poetry meant little to her , she could see that he was destined for great things . |
| 24 | Professor Hoskins saw little in the modern development of the English landscape that filled him with pleasure and one has great sympathy for his feelings . |
| 25 | But for the time being , dancing meant little to him . |
| 26 | The two companies share little except their chairman . |
| 27 | NMDA receptors contribute little to the synaptic response because of their relatively slow activation kinetics . |
| 28 | Moreover , his values differed little from those of his unlamented father : he was committed to upholding autocracy , the nobility , and Russia 's military might . |
| 29 | But where this occurred it took the form of state control and the resulting technologies and forms of industrialisation differed little from their capitalist counterparts . |
| 30 | These proposals add little to existing , though rarely used , provisions for guardianship under the Mental Health Act 1983 . |