Example sentences of "been little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain had exercised tight control over the entry of aliens for as long as anyone could remember and , anyway , there had been little contact between Germany and Britain for at least nine months . |
| 2 | In Ecuador there has been little unionisation , but organisations based on ethnicity have given the indigenous rural population an effective foundation for action . |
| 3 | There has been little escape from St Valentinism on television , with even two of the dreaded soap operas niftily timing weddings for around now . |
| 4 | This requires careful planning , especially in the allocation of committee rooms for use by committees which are to be broadcast , but , in practice , there appears to have been little difficulty . |
| 5 | What happens to the grief reaction when there has been little warning of the impending death , or for various reasons , where there has been no opportunity to be involved in the preparation process ? |
| 6 | There has been little development at Bootle and on the Wirral site . |
| 7 | There has been little development in style since the 1920s though the range of materials has increased . |
| 8 | There was an emphasis on the generation of female employment as well as on the general need for diversification but there had been little development by the outbreak of war . |
| 9 | But despite some concessions made to access considerations , there has been little evidence that he will change his mind . |
| 10 | Yet despite this there has mostly in practice been little depth , little more than discussion of opinions with regard to these ultimate questions — what one disillusioned teacher called " mutual exchange of ignorance " . |
| 11 | In previous elections there has been little change in the parties ' support between the final Sunday of the campaign and polling day . |
| 12 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
| 13 | He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight . |
| 14 | Comparing , for fixed-term contract workers , the results of the 1984 survey with those of the 1980 survey we found that there had been little change . |
| 15 | There has been little change in the combined market share of the six national brewers owning more than 2,000 pubs since February 1989 . |
| 16 | According to the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , there has been little change in breast-feeding patterns in the last decade . |
| 17 | There has been little support from independent black defence organizations and authentic community groups whose actions go far beyond the narrow categories in which antiracism can operate . |
| 18 | At this age , there has been little hassle from the police : only an awareness that crime scars their neighbourhood . |
| 19 | Unlike the issue of sterling there would seem to have been little choice in the line of action to be followed . |
| 20 | For decades , there has been little choice within the UK credit within the UK credit insurance market . |
| 21 | The party managers continued to bewail the organizational weakness of Coalition Liberalism , but there had been little opportunity for organizational collaboration ; one of the few joint ventures , a magazine called Popular View , was abandoned in 1921 because of the impossibility of producing a lively magazine out of continuous compromise . |
| 22 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 23 | There would seem to have been little doubt , however , in Mr Justice Lindley 's mind . |
| 24 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 25 | But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war . |
| 26 | But there had been little doubt he would go from the moment Micheal Hurley had called during the Thanksgiving holiday to say he had at last been funded for a major operation in the Middle East and would Coleman be interested in going back to Cyprus as a DEA contractor ? |
| 27 | Thus the Preface of the Catalogus Plantarum emphasised correct identification as a prime factor for success both in the nursery and the garden , and the text of the work presented a practical guide , suggesting the best uses for the new trees and shrubs with which there had been little experience . |
| 28 | In Britain , to date , there has been little experience of union influence over selection amongst the technical and social options for information technology . |
| 29 | Mr Yeltsin and the West have a shared interest in claiming the biggest figure for the aid package , so there has been little dissent over the headline-seizing ‘ $13 billion ’ . |
| 30 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |