Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] little [prep] " in BNC.

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1 too as you know ‘ full-circled ’ with her marriage to divorce ! & & had little in Sept. who is a delightful baby .
2 In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers .
3 In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers
4 As this has been achieved with a style of football that owes little to romantic idealism , Charlton is not in trouble-free waters although even his most vigorous detractors are now inclined to take a pragmatic stance , appeased by success and forced to accept his widespread popularity .
5 ‘ Soul On Ice ’ is a self-styled disco record , which is fine by me ; unfortunately it is also a rather monotonous record with a plodding beat that owes little to the glories of mad '70s dance music .
6 He provides a first-hand account of the board 's modus operandi as it developed recommendations that differed little from the promulgated National Institutes of Health guidelines but were turned into ‘ the first DNA legislation in the United States ’ .
7 Dana , slumped over the kitchen table in a bright pink robe that left little to the imagination , raised resentful eyes .
8 It may be that the poll tax was used as a pretext for anarchists , militants and other left-wing Labour Party fellow travellers to encourage riots and civil disorder , but many joined in for the kicks and cared little about the issue .
9 Hintertux is a tiny hamlet and offers little in the way of nighttime activity but Mayrhofen , 15 minutes away , positively buzzes in the evening .
10 It has the usual complement of flowerbeds , vegetable patches , close-trimmed lawn , shrubs , trees and well-swept paths , and differs little in appearance from neighbouring gardens .
11 The religious zeal of the Portuguese set them apart from their British counterparts , who allowed complete religious freedom and interfered little with the indigenous culture .
12 The drawback of this system is that the clinical teacher works only briefly with each student and has little on which to assess progress .
13 and expect little in return .
14 I used the PCW version and found little at fault , except , that the limitations imposed upon it by the hardware made it slow to operate .
15 It is a gradual process , starting out from where teachers and children are and developing little by little , under their control , at a pace both feel comfortable with .
16 Unfortunately , it deals mainly with the fighting , and says little about internal politics or the king , although what it does say is very interesting .
17 Certainly the private services sector is growing in output and employment and suffered little from recession .
18 The style of dress within this group was unremarkable and differed little from that worn by people of this age group in most social contexts .
19 The most recent studies suggest that more than a third of employers discriminate against black applicants for jobs , and that levels of discrimination are the same for Asian and Afro-Caribbean applicants , for men and women , and vary little between job categories , although previous studies have documented higher levels of racial discrimination in relation to unskilled manual jobs ( Brown and Gay , 1985 ; Smith , 1977 ) .
20 A Shadow Cabinet containing senior figures like Lord Carrington , Whitelaw , Prior , Maudling , and Pym — most of whom had already achieved office under Mr Heath , were associated with his policies , and owed little to her — was hardly right-wing .
21 These high-pitched sounds are unlikely to be heard by passing fish , however , because although a few species , such as minnows , can hear as high as 8000 hertz , the majority are most sensitive to low frequencies and hear little above 500 hertz .
22 These methods are not at all standardised , and draw little in their design on the parent body of knowledge , multiple criteria decision making .
23 Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ .
24 Ribose ring puckers are not well defined at this resolution , and were not specifically restrained during refinement , but deviate little from their original C2'- endo conformation in the initial model .
25 Moody 's and S&P sell reams of information on the companies they rate , but say little about themselves .
26 Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms .
27 Sediment accumulation rates decreased in the north ( 58.024.5gm -2 yr -1 ) and central basins ( 44.416.6gm -2 yr -1 ) , but changed little in the south basin ( 41.715.1gm -2 yr -1 ) .
28 These records establish his importance ( his operations were crucial to the establishment of the Angevin dynasty in England ) but supply little by way of biographical information .
29 Shot and shell rained in on the village , orchard and chateau grounds , tearing up the earth , smashing roofs and rafters , but causing little in the way of casualties .
30 Rimsky-Korsakov 's Capriccio Espagnol provides an opportunity for the LSO to display its glittering virtuosity in one of the great orchestral showpieces — although there 's not enough hot Spanish sun here for my taste — and they then round the disc off with Grieg 's Two Elegaic [ sic ] Melodies , which are well enough played , but add little to the overall attractiveness of the disc .
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