Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have shown that central cyanosis is seen in few hypoxaemic children . |
| 2 | Another issue which seemed to lead to few concrete proposals was language across the curriculum , where the school was also criticized for having few clear policies . |
| 3 | The literal world which she inhabited was so plainly hostile that she seized with ardour upon any references to any other mode of being ; she came across few direct ones , in that suburban and industrial spot , so she had to make do with the oblique . |
| 4 | This expertise , which can be matched by few other companies , is also available to associated brewing companies and other clients . |
| 5 | To compare receptivity toward the Copernican innovation as a means of testing the hypothesis that Protestantism created a more favorable climate for science leads to few definite conclusions . |
| 6 | His picture of the democratic tyranny of Athenion , the Aristotelian who led the anti-Roman movement in Athens in 87 , is the most hostile image of a popular leader in Greek literature — and I know of few comparable portraits in other literatures ( fr. 36 Jacoby ) . |
| 7 | King comments on the effects in Kenya ; his remarks would apply with few local variants to nearly all the countries visited in our survey : |
| 8 | Yet he started with few political debts , and seemed to offer Alabamians a chance to become part of that shining land , the New South . |
| 9 | West Ham was an area adjacent to East London where formal politics during the 1920s came to be dominated by the Labour Party to an extent experienced in few other areas of the country . |
| 10 | Last , but not least , we offer a range of subjects found in few other universities , such as Scottish Studies , Scandinavian Studies , Sanskrit . |
| 11 | But to a remarkable extent Kilvert succeeded in turning its limitations — its narrow range of vision and the naïvety of his own judgements — into advantages , to give it a vividness and a simplicity shared by few similar journals ; and it seems likely that it will retain its place as at once a major document of Victorian rural life and a minor but moving work of literature . |
| 12 | The death of Elizabeth in 1603 resulted in few immediate changes in the English church . |
| 13 | A Cabinet reshuffle on June 14 , 1989 , resulted in few significant changes . |
| 14 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |