Example sentences of "[vb past] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , until very recently , the leading ethnographers of the police made few disclosures on the difficulties they encountered , implying that their entry into the field and relations with police officers were unproblematic . |
| 2 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 3 | In 1963 he made few changes to Adenauer 's cabinet and emphasised the element of continuity in government , though his personal style was very different to that of ‘ the old man ’ . |
| 4 | Following the coup the ruling junta made few changes to economic policy . |
| 5 | Otherwise he made few changes in personnel . |
| 6 | Dulles in any case made few friends among foreign politicians apart from the dour West German chancellor , Konrad Adenauer , and Jean Monnet ( chairman of the European Coal and Steel Community who was doing more than any other figure to create the sort of Europe desired by Washington ) . |
| 7 | Klemperer made few records as an orchestral accompanist , and whilst listening to this performance , I was intrigued to know as to how far his towering musical personality affected Fischer 's own interpretation . |
| 8 | She made few demands on her parents but sat quietly , playing with an orange in a plastic mug . |
| 9 | Advisers in feedback sessions made few references to the self-appraisal and mostly reported on their own visits . |
| 10 | Beat work and manning the Dock gates produced few opportunities for praise . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The former created few problems for libraries , but the latter will almost certainly present considerable difficulties for libraries in the foreseeable future . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Academy assistant manager Mette Doessing promised to look into Mr Doblin 's case , but said the hotel received few complaints about telephone charges . |
| 17 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I walked around the bedroom which , unlike mine , was neat and showed few signs of its occupant : a small pile of books , with Psychological Correspondences on top ; a pair of flesh-coloured tights drying on a radiator ; some cosmetics . |
| 20 | Salomon , who had left Germany when he was nine , showed few signs of anything like this happening to him — although he was reported as ‘ somewhat unsociable ’ and disappeared at one stage for three days , returning well and happy . |
| 21 | Hardly more than a village , the latter possessed no more wealth than any sizeable one and no distinctive characteristics ; most of the population of the huge parish was scattered among hamlets , locally called ‘ yelds ’ , which showed few signs of industrial growth . |
| 22 | Moxon showed few signs of discomfort during his 231-ball innings but his blackened finger afterwards was testimony to the fact that he had played in pain . |
| 23 | In contrast , Jacobites often showed few scruples about taking oaths . |
| 24 | It became even more individualistic and displayed few signs of the closely knit and hierarchically organized structure of the previous era . |
| 25 | The development officers expressed few difficulties in supervising and managing their support workers ( apart from the particular problems with clients already discussed ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He learned quickly — a vital quality , as Roosevelt had confided little in his Vice-President , and Truman knew few details of government policy . |
| 28 | WPC Dick 's salutary essay ( 1985 ) changed little and generated few ripples on the ACPO pond , while one of the most powerfully critical books on policing in recent years ( Jones 1980 ) seems to have had little effect on the structures of the organization , except , perhaps , to help draw its author — then a chief inspector — into the ACPO ranks . |
| 29 | THE flashiest UK Jazz Awards proceedings yet , this time co-sponsored by your favourite newspaper , saw few surprises from the poll winners but some of the best live music ever to support this four-year-old event . |
| 30 | He also distributed library books to those who asked for them — although I saw few books in the cells or barracks and it was stated that few prisoners were interested in reading . |