Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when nursing and health care is subject to much change , both professionally and politically determined , it is a pity that these elections appear to have been organised with little concern for the democratic process . |
| 2 | Captain Glen had recently reported that the university had been retaken with little opposition , and Mortimer had immediately set off . |
| 3 | DNA bending does not seem to be a general feature of eukaryotic transcription factors and has hitherto only been demonstrated for little more than a handful of such proteins ( see e.g. 44,69 and references therein ) . |
| 4 | But , thanks to a combination of high interest rates on traditional deposit accounts over much of this period , coupled to a distinct lack of publicity for SAYE , it has been relegated to little more than a footnote in the long list of savings options . |
| 5 | But the security provisions of this treaty had been translated into little more than cautious Soviet-Iraqi arms deals . |
| 6 | Many of the deliberations of the LDDC have been taken with little or no public scrutiny . |
| 7 | Had the attack been properly organized and coordinated , these vital heights might have been taken with little loss and the successes consolidated . |
| 8 | Apple Computer Inc has been left with little more than a garbage can in its protracted suit against Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co alleging that Windows infringes its copyright in the Macintosh user interface . |
| 9 | But they have been left in little doubt that Washington would be displeased if they decided to help Vietnam 's programme to grow its forests anew . |
| 10 | Yet the new arrangements for providing treatment and rehabilitation to people with drug and alcohol problems — through community care budgets rather than social security payments — have been implemented with little preparation . |
| 11 | Chairman John Haynes said the group 's performance had been achieved with little help from either the UK or the US economies ( although the latter was showing a significant increase in retail spending in the fourth quarter ) : turnover was up by less than 2% to £11.1m . |