Example sentences of "[verb] few [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all professional photographers working for the city 's major advertising agencies , Tony Bowran 's diary offers few spaces for those not wholly involved with the business of photography . |
| 2 | Surely such a spot offers few inducements for its selection as a place of permanent abode … an area of Jews , thieves , rags , filth , foul smells , and wretchedness . |
| 3 | Beat work and manning the Dock gates produced few opportunities for praise . |
| 4 | Certainly for the king who died , and for the politicians who survived , the last two years of the reign had given few grounds for pleasure , in sharp contrast to the enormous activity and success of the previous decade . |
| 5 | But even if the Church takes this controversial step , there remains the fact that it has few structures for evaluating its chief resource . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The former created few problems for libraries , but the latter will almost certainly present considerable difficulties for libraries in the foreseeable future . |
| 8 | Cold holds few fears for them . |
| 9 | The country has made few preparations for civil defence . |
| 10 | The Soviet Union had made few preparations for occupation of north Korea in August 1945 . |
| 11 | He obtained few commissions for public buildings because , after his early success , he declined to enter the competitions through which , in his day , the architects of many of these were chosen ; but he acquired connections with the landed and wealthy , for several of whom he designed country houses . |
| 12 | I realise that knitters with other makes of machine can not achieve this stitch , which , I suppose , is why one sees few patterns for it . |
| 13 | As someone who has been admitted into psychiatric care 16 times in the past 25 years and has usually received acute care in asylum style settings , I shed few tears for the disappearance of these places . |
| 14 | Like their fairy-tale sister , they do all the boring but crucial jobs — looking after the keyboard and screen , filing and retrieving data — but get few thanks for it . |
| 15 | Of course , I would have few grounds for complaint had the words attributed to me been my own . |
| 16 | His isolated Ottery childhood had provided few opportunities for exploring the possibilities of friendship . |
| 17 | Unemployment was higher in Torbay than nationally and the DHA had provided few opportunities for work , most of its effort going into the operation of a light industrial unit at Newton Abbot . |
| 18 | The external skeleton inherited from their water-living forebears , needed few modifications for life on land , but the millipedes did have to acquire a different method of breathing . |
| 19 | WHEN shoppers buy a bottle of shampoo or a pair of shoes , they spare few thoughts for the environmental consequences . |
| 20 | Life in those days offered few opportunities for young men and women with ambition . |
| 21 | A succession of bright alert female graduate assistants decided that the job offered few prospects for their particular talents and rapidly moved on . |
| 22 | The Scissortail is a tough fish , making few demands for any special treatment , and has the added attraction of being quite easily bred . |
| 23 | Even a sympathizer conceded that Aleksandr Golovnin possessed few qualifications for heading the education ministry . |
| 24 | Opinion surveys showed that public ownership won few votes for Labour and that even many loyal supporters disapproved ofthe party 's commitment to further nationalization . |
| 25 | It is plain that such essentially lightweight structures , the form of which is determined almost entirely by operational considerations , may offer few opportunities for conversion into comfortable living accommodation . |
| 26 | At 22 , Lottie felt she had few qualifications for such a sensitive job , but after his time with the Kindertransporte Freddie was more confident . |
| 27 | In fact he had few qualifications for great office . |
| 28 | Large wheatfields have few earthworms for baby starlings , with the result that many starve . |
| 29 | The monastery church is one of the treasures of north Switzerland , and its eleven colourful fourteenth-century choir windows , with their deep reds and blues catching the morning light , have few equals for their richly contrasted beauty . |
| 30 | An extremely ‘ permissive ’ parent , on the other hand , attempts to behave in a non-punitive , accepting and affirmative manner towards children 's impulses , desires and actions ; always to consult with them about policy decisions and give explanations for family rules ; to make few demands for household responsibility and orderly behaviour ; to present himself/herself to them as someone to call upon for help and company as they wish , rather than as an active ‘ disciplinary agent ’ responsible for shaping or altering behaviour . |