Example sentences of "little [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | FINANCIAL markets displayed little enthusiasm for Nigel Lawson 's speech to the Tory party conference yesterday but were prepared to grant the pound a respite from the hammering of the past few days . |
| 2 | NEW ATTEMPTS are underway to revive Wall Street 's most celebrated failed deal — the buyout of United Airlines which collapsed spreading chaos on the stock market two months ago — with little enthusiasm for a revised offer for the company before next year . |
| 3 | Table 27 indicated little enthusiasm for any alternative forms of training other than the use of video and the provision of 3 or 4 day blocks . |
| 4 | It seems that Napoleon III briefly entertained the idea of being crowned by the pope , as his uncle had been , but Pius IX showed little enthusiasm for this scheme . |
| 5 | Individual householders , faced with the prospects of a water rate , showed as little enthusiasm for the benefits of water ( and with it sewage disposal ) in the home , so that when the Empire ended only half the city 's houses had running water . |
| 6 | Once again , employers showed little enthusiasm for them . |
| 7 | FOR a country that has been run by soldiers for nearly a decade , Nigeria shows little enthusiasm for the elections due on June 12th . |
| 8 | There had been little enthusiasm for the renewal of war in Scotland in 1332 , and apart from his victory at Halidon Hill Edward had scarcely distinguished himself on his Scottish campaigns . |
| 9 | A recent survey of 33 consultant staff in Yorkshire found little enthusiasm for the GMC 's proposals . |
| 10 | The majority were individuals doing their national service , who had little enthusiasm for that , let alone for a task of this type in this perishingly cold country . |
| 11 | So far , the DTI has shown little enthusiasm for the idea , and the budget for civilian aerospace research is scheduled to decline next year by 15 per cent , to £22 million . |
| 12 | Page considers : ‘ There was little enthusiasm for the legislation among Members of Parliament , and substantial opposition from local councillors ’ ( Page 1983:44 ) . |
| 13 | Actually , though , I have little enthusiasm for the venture . |
| 14 | Bernard , however , realized that unless someone with a sound financial background took the company 's problems in hand , its continued existence was threatened , although he too showed little enthusiasm for the idea . |
| 15 | Movements for industrial democracy have been similarly discouraged , and even socialist governments , whether reformist or revolutionary , have shown little enthusiasm for a devolution of their powers which would permit a greater involvement of ordinary people in the direction of their everyday economic activities . |
| 16 | The larger businesses showed little enthusiasm for the scheme when it was first announced in January . |
| 17 | With little enthusiasm for the day , Fabia got out of bed and , mulling over her problems and the fact that anywhere she went from now on would have to be on foot , she pattered to the bathroom to take a shower . |
| 18 | But the government newspaper al-Jumhouriya had little enthusiasm for Clinton ‘ a chameleon that changes colour every day ’ . |
| 19 | Alas , the Gulf crisis has created a new phrase to frustrate travellers with little patience for this abuse of the English language . |
| 20 | The contrast between the mondaine world of Beatrice Hastings and the ghetto of Jewish painters from Eastern Europe could hardly have been greater , and Beatrice had little patience for Modigliani 's gauche , unsophisticated friends . |
| 21 | Never intolerant of individuals , he had little patience for pettiness of mind . |
| 22 | Because I have little patience for people who waste their time on idle speculation without any evidence to support their suspicions — and now , ’ he continued inexorably , ‘ since we understand each other , I suggest you go and have your shower , get dressed and eat some breakfast . |
| 23 | Although the farmer expected his wife to cope , in many cases she had little preparation for the job . |
| 24 | There was little glory for Italy in dying on the Russian front , as so many did in 1942 . |
| 25 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 26 | Dr Brice Pitt comments in Making the Most of Middle Age : ‘ So much publicity is now given to the art of making love , what men and women need from each other , and how to please your partner , that there is little excuse for a dull , unimaginative sex life even in the supposedly stolid middle-aged . ’ |
| 27 | There is little excuse for allowing these situations to drift ; and it is in preventing such situations that professional practice based on research parts company from common sense and rules of thumb or the use of ‘ hunches ’ . |
| 28 | Armed with Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation , one would have little excuse for not being able to run a calm and well-organised cardiac arrest . |
| 29 | Such provision was thought to be important in a borough where the majority of housing is in local authority estates with little provision for single people . |
| 30 | Joseph Gandy , who claims in 1805 that his designs originate ‘ in the humane desire of increasing the comforts and improving the condition of the Labouring Poor ’ , makes little provision for them . |