Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Although there appear to be few operational savings planned from combining the two groups , three major benefits are expected to result from the merger :
2 But there appear to be few clear criteria governing the selection of these specialities and those which are experimental are not monitored or evaluated in any rigorous way ( Hogg 1988 ) .
3 There seem to be few other candidates for such a mystery .
4 We can not expect to detect boundaries bottom-up , since there seem to be few reliable cues to word boundaries .
5 In the wild , there tend to be few old-man babirusas .
6 Since by the end of the period there appeared to be few unworked fields left within the discipline , its overall stability seemed endangered by excessively specialized work .
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