Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] little [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Angell said little about the vested interest of arms manufacturers in war scares , or of financial speculators in international instability . |
| 5 | The early industrialists were not ‘ insensitive to the appeal of the country : the beauty of Cromford and Millers Dale suffered little by the enterprise of Arkwright , and stretches of the Goyt and the Bollin owe something to Oldknow and the Gregs ’ . |
| 6 | In any case , Wasbrough benefited little from either his invention or his arrangement with Pickard . |
| 7 | Functionalists such as Parsons and Davis and Moore say little about social stratification in the sense of clearly defined social strata whose members have shared interests . |
| 8 | When they drove out from the castle , Johnson found little in Dunbui 's yellow rock to engage his attention , other than the remarkable fact that the Guillemot , known locally as the Coot , while as small as a duck , lays eggs as large as those of a goose . |
| 9 | ‘ KME differed little from conventional organisations and fell well short of co-operative ideals ’ ; and again , ‘ the worker directors apparently adopted an autocratic style and barely communicated with their fellow members . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps for this reason Britain experienced little in the way of a fascist movement in the 1920s ; only a few small and insignificant fascist groups , hostile to the Bolsheviks or the Jews , emerged at that time . |
| 11 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 12 | MOST modern books on Japan say little about the Japanese . |
| 13 | Maguire and Dunwoody both looked to have good chances of completing trebles in the concluding Chailey Handicap Hurdle , but Maguire 's mount Manhattan Boy has yet to win outside selling company and faded into third , while Dunwoody 's mount Ilewin found little under pressure after looking really dangerous . |
| 14 | General measures to stimulate accumulation in Japan differed little in kind or degree from those employed elsewhere . |
| 15 | The electoral success of the Kadets in the First Duma owed little to their largely unsuccessful attempts to attract the support of peasants and workers . |
| 16 | The reasons for disappointment in Eastern Europe differ little from those encountered in the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | Coote bothered little about the effects of his work on the prostitutes themselves . |
| 18 | Mr Austin said little at the inquest but told police in an earlier statement he had been squeezed off the road three times by the coach onto the central reservation . |
| 19 | Coleman published little in his long life — all his works came out within nine years of his appointment as Professor . |
| 20 | Abie spoke little to anyone apart from himself and various personages from his past and his future . |
| 21 | Probably life without Laura meant little to him anyway . |
| 22 | Pomerania , the Vistula delta and East Prussia had little in the way of natural resources or industrial centres ; worthwhile manufactured goods and raw materials for export were located some 250–500 kilometres inland in areas that lay south of Poznán , Warsaw and Lublin . |
| 23 | This said , The Smiths have little against the workings of a straight concert video . |
| 24 | Jenkins published little except a few articles and reviews , notably his devastating critique of A. S. Barnes 's Bishop Barlow and Anglican Orders ( 1922 ) ( JTS , vol. xxiv , 1923 ) . |
| 25 | Dom Pérignon cared little for the wooden plugs wrapped in oil-soaked hemp which were in use during his time . |