Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps because of the unpredictable nature of the outcome that few cases come to court on ultra vires conditions . |
| 2 | Gould still intended to do a lot of collecting on the Yarrundi-side of the Liverpool Range , but the main focus of his efforts was to be across the mountains , on the remote plains around the Namoi and Mokai rivers , an area of the interior that few settlers had yet penetrated . |
| 3 | It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves . |
| 4 | But formal requirements of this kind were merely a recognition of reality , of the fact that few diplomats could hope to live on their salaries . |
| 5 | This potential for improving the quality of teaching and learning that underlies LMS probably accounts for the fact that few educationalists are opposed to it in principle . |
| 6 | Despite resistance of markets to novelty and indeed diversity and the fact that few mills can handle a diversity of timbers , the advent of techniques for pulping mixtures of species means that the diversity of the rain forest becomes less of a problem . |
| 7 | 1.4 We should now immediately take account of the fact that few words serve solely to identify entities that a speaker wishes to mention . |
| 8 | The control of Parliament is perhaps even better illustrated by the fact that few pieces of legislation have been lost in the Commons in the ten years since Mrs Thatcher became prime minister — the Shops Bill comes to mind , but there is talk of its reintroduction in a future session . |
| 9 | Primitive their house certainly was , with its earthen floor , mud walls , thatched roof and rude furniture ; but it was imbued by those two remarkable and lovable people with a warmth that few homes can ever have equalled . |
| 10 | However , to Claudia , Dana was part of her — together they formed a whole that few sisters could hope to achieve . |
| 11 | These systems are ‘ user friendly ’ ( much used on home and hobby computers ) ; and a forecasting model , once built and tested , will produce consistently accurate results : a claim that few accountants could make ! |
| 12 | But informal co-optation is a mechanism that few bureaucracies seem able to dispense with , though who benefits most , client group or administrative agency , will depend on the political system in which such relationships are found . |
| 13 | Open OLTP monitors , including IBM 's CICS/6000 , NCR 's TopEnd , AT&T 's Tuxedo and Transarc 's Encina , will be supported as part of the X/A Distributed Transaction support — no matter that few customers seem to have built many applications in anger with such products , Sybase says it just loves standards to death these days ! |
| 14 | Open transaction processing monitors , including IBM 's CICS/6000 , NCR 's TopEnd , Unix System Laboratories Inc 's Tuxedo and Transarc Inc 's Encina , will be supported as part of the X/A Distributed Transaction Support — no matter that few customers seem to have built many applications in anger with such products , Sybase says it just loves standards to death these days ! |
| 15 | Nursing is still an occupation that few boys ever consider ; this fact must be addressed . |