Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [art] [det] [noun pl] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | These figures suggest that employers , at least with the present education system , largely feel that basic knowledge in a few subjects is all that they find useful for their purpose . |
| 2 | The ready availability of a screening questionnaire that mothers at risk can complete under supervision in a few minutes is potentially useful , but only if health workers and others can rise to the needs of depressed mothers . |
| 3 | What permitted the concentration of foreign trade in a few ports was the complementing of overseas trade by coastal trade . |
| 4 | Perhaps cuckoos have only in recent centuries started parasitizing their present hosts , and will in a few centuries be forced to give them up and victimize other species . |
| 5 | Sir Robert Lee , who was also stated to have property in the selfsame places was a prominent local figure . |
| 6 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |