Example sentences of "little about the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The telling of atrocity stories is therefore a highly structured occasion which reveals little about the teller other than that he or she is performing a ritual for a contextually specific purpose . |
| 2 | The Australian Federal Police are saying little about the affair , which has become a national scandal , but they have admitted the discovery of illegal bugs on the phones of Mr Robert Holmes a Court , Sydney stockbroker Mr Peter Burrows and a leading Australian financial journalist , Mr Terry McCran of the Melbourne Herald , a trenchant critic of the Bond Corporation . |
| 3 | It is wonderful to have this array of foods accessible to us , but it is even more exciting when you know a little about the food , how it is produced , how to prepare it and how it should be served . |
| 4 | If , as the government 's first reports suggested , the blame lies with disaffected Tamils , so much the better — the Indian masses care little about the problems of Tamil separatism in Sri Lanka . |
| 5 | Mary of Guise had infinitely more ability and determination , but for the first twelve years of the minority she had no official role in government , and throughout the whole period her main interest lay in achieving a French marriage for her daughter , even if that meant doing little about the existence of Protestantism . |
| 6 | To see the relevance of this , it is first necessary to know a little about the various ways in which genes are arranged in organisms . |
| 7 | In the past two chapters , I have been discussing the mechanisms of evolution , but have said little about the outcome of the process . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , we hear little about the role and inestimable value of leafcutters in channelling nutrients through tropical forests , as they convert leaves into rich humus . |
| 9 | They talked about horses and a little about the Norfolk Baileys . |
| 10 | These are ‘ novels squared , novels of novels ’ , a formula which tells us little about the actual narrative rendition of the works in question , but a great deal about the unhappiness of the critic . |
| 11 | Mountain Rescue get little trouble from ramblers , since their rambles rarely take them off a bus route , and you can sometimes spot them at the sides of the road , gazing into a hedgerow as their leader tells them a little about the history of couch grass . |
| 12 | Some of the Naval survey parties may also have landed briefly on Krakatoa , because a hot spring is marked on some maps , but apart from this we know remarkably little about the islands or their volcanic history . |
| 13 | Before attempting to answer that question it is necessary to understand a little about the function of disease in our lives . |
| 14 | The simplicity , though , is deceiving because it tells you little about the developmental performance leading to the strongly and reliably determined patterns of differentiation and spatial organisation of the animal . |
| 15 | It was all too clear that the writers actually understood little about the subject matter , and that the understanding they succeeded in imparting to the public was correspondingly less . |
| 16 | On a more positive note , the sole practitioner generally needs to care little about the financial decisions of his colleagues and how they might affect his income . |
| 17 | The records tell us a little about the labourers employed by the lords . |
| 18 | You may also get a chance to ask someone a little about the firm and about working conditions . |
| 19 | You will be at an advantage if you know a little about the person who will interview you before you arrive . |
| 20 | Art college taught her much about an artist 's social responsibilities , but disappointingly little about the use of materials in painting , and how to earn a living as an artist . |
| 21 | I muttered something about not wanting to trample over the very different memories they must all have of Conor , talked a little about the family 's surprise at finding that their son had such an extensive social and business life . |
| 22 | I located a couple of book reviews I had done on matters to do with the period , one about writers of the thirties , the other about the Mass Observation project , added a letter in which I wrote a little about the book I was writing and sent them off . |
| 23 | We know remarkably little about the process of dissolution in Sussex , but it seems to have gone fairly peaceably . |
| 24 | Secondly , membership in these occupational categories tells us little about the wealth of the person concerned . |
| 25 | He could tell them little about the enemy , save that his party , coming here , had crossed the tracks of a great host in the Kilsyth area of Strathkelvin , by the horse-droppings at least a day old . |
| 26 | Angell said little about the vested interest of arms manufacturers in war scares , or of financial speculators in international instability . |
| 27 | For example , if you 're talking about marketing again , to the same audience with John the marketing manager and his department present , you could say : ‘ I 'm going to talk a little about the marketing concept . |
| 28 | This allows estimation of chronology and the identification of regional types , but it says little about the organisation of manufacture and dispersal . |
| 29 | Art college taught her much about an artist 's social responsibilities , but disappointingly little about the use of materials in painting , and how to earn a living as an artist . |
| 30 | Now that you have read a little about the method why not get out the extension rails and apply these pieces of information to some lace making ? |