Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouting at cats or hitting them has little effect . |
| 2 | Serum pepsinogen I shows little response to eating . |
| 3 | Graphics and other illustrative material has its part to play as well and this is an area which receives little attention . |
| 4 | Less than a quarter were in favour of the government having the power to expropriate land , which offers little support to the opposition to the landed elite thesis ( Johnson 1972 ) . |
| 5 | Precedent 3 is intentionally a minimalist document , which contains little boilerplate , and little by way of exclusion clauses . |
| 6 | Other strong factors such as the nature of UK social work , which places little premium upon therapeutic work , or the nature of social work education in the UK , which Payne characterizes as being restricted and narrow in scope , act to hamper the practitioner 's attainment of competence in psychodynamic methods . |
| 7 | TWO options have been put forward in the literature : ( 1 ) Sivapithecus is related to humans , which has little support ; and ( 2 ) Sivapithecus is related to the orang-utan. both of these may be combined with the third possibility that the orang-utan is the nearest living relative to humans , although there is much evidence against this proposition ( Box 1 ) . |
| 8 | However that may be , we are dealing with a curious amalgam of services which has little coherence or consistency . |
| 9 | In January 214 ( 31% ) of them voted for a private member 's bill based on it ( which has little chance of becoming law ) . |
| 10 | In such a zone the refusal rate was a high as 40 per cent compared with only 20 per cent in mid-Devon , which has little protection . |
| 11 | And equally important , it is made at a level of generality which has little connection with the work of social scientists . |
| 12 | In fact , school is an institution which has little meaning for ‘ the lads ’ : it has merely to be ‘ got through ’ as enjoyably as possible — by ‘ having a laff ’ and rehearsing the loyalties and possibilities for defiance and resistance which will be carried over into work . |
| 13 | I am not , though , recommending the ideological antiquarianism of the New Historicism , which has little interest in poetry as such . |
| 14 | Often , in fact , you 're responding to an unconscious pull towards that person which has little basis in reality . |
| 15 | For instance , when coaching people in the carve gybe , rather than simply say ‘ Bend zee knees ’ which has little effect , it is better to ask them to try and get their knees to touch the water as they bank into the turn . |
| 16 | We choose to be attractive , or dowdy , to enhance what nature has given us or to play it down ; we can dress in a way that we feel accords with our essential character or choose to create a fantasy image which bears little resemblance to the personality . |
| 17 | Too often pupils are put off by material which is dull , linguistically unsuitable , and which bears little resemblance to the colourful storybooks they are used to . |
| 18 | Whilst many local authorities in Scotland appear to be rolling forward the present DSS rates , we are keen to move away from a flat-rate fee which bears little relation to the intensity of service ( and costs incurred ) in meeting the needs of different people . |
| 19 | A new sintered glass product which bears little similarity to Siporax is Biohome which is reviewed on our What 's New pages this month . |
| 20 | After a period of very stable numbers between 1985–89 , the PCC will thus have seen its workload increase by 66 per cent in only three years , a trend which shows little sign of ending . |
| 21 | Fisher ( 1990 ) has pointed out that the community care reforms are based upon a conception of case management which takes little account of those people for whom services have , mandatorily , to be provided , but who refuse to accept them . |
| 22 | It may seem curious that physics , on the face of it the most challenging and exciting of disciplines , a discipline whose discoveries have transformed the world we live in , should be taught in a way which demands little creativity or imagination . |
| 23 | At the same time the government did not push its reforms as far as some supporters wished ; it did not , for example , place the onus on union members to contract in rather than out of paying the political levy and has done little to break down national wage bargaining which pays little attention to different local labour market conditions . |
| 24 | Modern historians have had scant success with this material , which inspires little trust . |
| 25 | It seems that in Japan microlights are restricted to flying no more than 1.5 kilometres from point of take-off which gives little chance of developing mature navigational skills . |
| 26 | The US Administration has unveiled plans for new energy legislation which gives little consideration to environmental priorities . |
| 27 | In 1925 he published My Reminiscences , a short autobiographical account of his sporting career , which gives little information about his personal life . |
| 28 | Emphasising the social construction of gender and sexuality , these writers question the biological determinism implicit in the automatic equation of woman as powerless and man as powerful , which leaves little room for change . |
| 29 | The current Diet session is due to end on June 20th , which leaves little time for the horse-trading that will be necessary . |
| 30 | The review follows persistent criticism that the Press Council is an ineffective body which commands little respect . |