Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hintertux is a tiny hamlet and offers little in the way of nighttime activity but Mayrhofen , 15 minutes away , positively buzzes in the evening . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The drawback of this system is that the clinical teacher works only briefly with each student and has little on which to assess progress . |
| 7 | and expect little in return . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , it deals mainly with the fighting , and says little about internal politics or the king , although what it does say is very interesting . |
| 11 | Certainly the private services sector is growing in output and employment and suffered little from recession . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | These methods are not at all standardised , and draw little in their design on the parent body of knowledge , multiple criteria decision making . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Moody 's and S&P sell reams of information on the companies they rate , but say little about themselves . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Following its accident the QED was repaired but flew little until the 1938 Bendix race , when George Armistead was forced out by an oil-line problem . |
| 26 | " A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland " written by Martin Martin who was a doctor in Skye was published in 1703 and mentions Finlaggan , the mines , forts , caves , the well that moved itself here from Colonsay , and gives a list of churches , but tells little about the way of life . |
| 27 | " A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland " written by Martin Martin who was a doctor in Skye was published in 1703 and mentions Finlaggan , the mines , forts , caves , the well that moved itself here from Colonsay , and gives a list of churches , but tells little about the way of life . |
| 28 | I would also avoid all those bent wire contraptions : they may look attractive in a well photographed catalogue but do little for the design of your garden . |
| 29 | Mrs Stevens had given her up as drowned but said little to Mr Johnson . |
| 30 | The war did not prove particularly popular with the English nobility , who served when called upon to do so but gained little from it . |