Example sentences of "[verb] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The claim is to be presented to the UN Compensation Commission , but the commission " set up after the war to co-ordinate claims against Iraq " has few funds at its disposal . |
| 32 | Fat Paul , I would say , has few anxieties about his accent . |
| 33 | Like Robert Hardy — and like Hardy , Mitchell is an intelligent , thoughtful and trustworthy man — he has few qualifications about Burton at this stage : Burton would be nineteen , twenty , twenty-one . |
| 34 | The Minister has few suggestions on how to combat that problem and the Government have cut the number of customs officers by 400 . |
| 35 | She has few hopes of happiness in marriage . |
| 36 | He has few hobbies outside of football although , even with his eyesight , he does like reading sell-by dates on goods in shops . |
| 37 | Milan has few fountains for so Mediterranean a city and this one , the oldest , was itself only built in 1782 to a design by Piermarini . |
| 38 | As a gentleman of sincerity Ally MacLeod , now enjoying his third spell as manager of Ayr United , has few equals in the world of football . |
| 39 | As a monument to extravagance of taste it has few equals in England , although it may not entirely justify the descriptions of a series of upended turnips stuck on boxes or St Paul 's pups which two irreverent contemporaries , William Cobbett and Dean Smith , bestowed on it . |
| 40 | The mountain peaks of Christian belief are travelled there in a style that has few rivals in the whole history of the church , and none at all in the twentieth century . |
| 41 | No wonder Dolly Parton has few fans in Ulan Bator ! |
| 42 | Once the conditions for the enforcement of a charge have arisen English law places few constraints on the right of the security holder to enforce his charge and in this respect it is pro-security holder . |
| 43 | The same applies today : contract law places few limitations on how parties may contract in the market and generally upholds the bargains struck . |
| 44 | The Profitboss places few demands on his colleagues , nor does he expect favours . |
| 45 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 46 | Herein are contained significant elements of the dominant nineteenth-century ideology of local government-depoliticisation , economy and utilitarianism — around a limited conception of municipal enterprise that bore few traces of the brand of municipal socialism forced onto the political agenda by the labour group . |
| 47 | Within moments of climbing on board , Kelly could see why Billy Liar had won few friends at the yard . |
| 48 | The former created few problems for libraries , but the latter will almost certainly present considerable difficulties for libraries in the foreseeable future . |
| 49 | An area involved in memory should be more active during tasks that have a high memory component than during those that place few demands on memory . |
| 50 | For a start , the visual tests used in these experiments are simple in the extreme and place few demands on the discriminative capacity of the system . |
| 51 | Cold holds few fears for them . |
| 52 | The third need is to remember that while the 1988 Act changed many aspects of management from the point of view of the insider , it changed few things from the point of view of the parents , the employer or the public . |
| 53 | The hard rocks of the steep hills of the loch 's catchment area yield few nutrients to the fast-flowing rivers that feed into it . |
| 54 | It uses few resources except your own leg-power and is enjoyable , easy-ish and infinitely cheaper . |
| 55 | As a trial for the Cheltenham Gold Cup , the outcome of the race caused few ripples in the ante-post market , although Chatam has shortened to a best priced 10-1 ( from 16-1 ) with Ladbrokes . |
| 56 | I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries . |
| 57 | The country has made few preparations for civil defence . |
| 58 | The Soviet Union had made few preparations for occupation of north Korea in August 1945 . |
| 59 | Most applications of work design have involved little or no significant changes to organization structure , and have presented few challenges to the traditional role of management . |
| 60 | Academy assistant manager Mette Doessing promised to look into Mr Doblin 's case , but said the hotel received few complaints about telephone charges . |