Example sentences of "have little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless the winch or car is very under-powered , pulling up steeper on a fast launch has little or no effect on launching speed . |
| 2 | So he has little or no time to release the glider , or to recover from the dive unless the upset occurs above about 500 feet , and then only if the rope breaks or the glider releases . |
| 3 | Such a plea , although laudable , has little chance of becoming reality in the present organizational set-up , for it ignores the semantic difference in the uniformed ‘ polis 's ’ role and that of the 10–15 per cent of the institution who form the élite in the CID . |
| 4 | It fits perfectly the charm and naivety of the early to mid-fifties ; it has little to do with the self conscious posturings of the later period that Scobie wishes to impute to it ; most of all that of the ‘ Beat generation ’ , for most of the book had been written before Howl howled and junkie commenced the near-universal junketings . |
| 5 | Compared to the movements I have discussed , feminist criticism has little theoretical coherence , though it draws eclectically on poststructuralism , Marxism , and psychoanalysis . |
| 6 | There is an immediate contrast with the literary criticism and theory of the early twentieth century , in that most recent work begins and ends in the academy , and has little contact with current literary practice . |
| 7 | Nowadays they may be esteemed by their peers who know something of their work , but this esteem has little currency value in the committee-rooms where performance is appraised . |
| 8 | I am not , though , recommending the ideological antiquarianism of the New Historicism , which has little interest in poetry as such . |
| 9 | But he has little power to compel , that is , by his person . |
| 10 | And his retort , masterfully bold though disingenuous , is that ‘ in a discussion of Mr Eliot 's poetry , his doctrine has little to command interest in itself ’ . |
| 11 | In an interview in the magazine Director to be published this week , Dr Runcie denies that there are ‘ tensions and suspicions ’ between Lambeth Palace and 10 Downing Street , but he points out that the Church of England is active in parts of the country where the Conservative Party has little support . |
| 12 | And , as he admitted yesterday , he has little knowledge of the racing industry , apart from having been ‘ a very amateur rider ’ . |
| 13 | Rodgers has little difficulty reading between the lines of Hytner 's stylish staging , which apes the hairpin role-reversals of Mozart 's convoluted Masonic fable by itself , neatly reversing the racial and sexual stereotypes of the original . |
| 14 | However , William Matteuzzi 's Almaviva is so weak that it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to picture her preferring the young Count to the lecherous old Dr Bartolo ; and although the late Giuseppe Patane conducts the score with obvious affection , he has little flare for dramatic pacing . |
| 15 | Convertible prices always tend to dip in the autumn , particularly after a balmy summer , but the advice to buy has little to do with cyclic depression . |
| 16 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 17 | Particularly , she has little time for a group called Yello , the Swiss electro-band with whom she collaborated on a single last year , much in the way Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys or Gene Pitney and Marc Almond have . |
| 18 | In the south , rebels from another group are pressing the government of President Siad Barre , who now has little authority beyond the capital . |
| 19 | While American grub generally has little of the yearning deliciousness of French cuisine , New Orleans , Floyd 's first port of call , has certain obvious attractions . |
| 20 | EC regulations normally have to be implemented by statutory authorities , but the Panel has little statutory backing . |
| 21 | The National Film Theatre in London shows a wonderful variety of films but obviously has little of the atmosphere of the high street picture palace . |
| 22 | British political science has little or no literature on political leadership . |
| 23 | In contrast to the immediate post-war generation of Conservative leaders , Churchill , Eden , Butler , and Macmillan , she has little sense of guilt ( ‘ bourgeois guilt ’ was the phrase she used in New York to the Institute of Economic Studies on 15 September 1975 ) for the unemployment of the 1930s . |
| 24 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 25 | As a thrilling spectacle it has little to offer , but as a powerful totem it is almost unique in its place in European and western culture . |
| 26 | After 25 years of hard use , JA 11 still has little or no creaking nor scuttle shaking on any reasonable surface and it is both light and delightfully precise . |
| 27 | However , we would advise that the £3123 worth of adaptive damping which arrived with the test car has little useful effect . |
| 28 | If you do feel hungry , you can eat anything you like — as long as it has little or no fat in it . |
| 29 | Its flesh is juicy , but has little fragrance . |
| 30 | The Bhutto government has little or no access and influence . |