Example sentences of "[verb] very few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In over 50 hours of recorded conversational speech , Brown , Currie and Kenworthy ( 1980 ) found very few examples of passives , it-clefts or wh-clefts . |
| 2 | Peel has very few friends in the groups he champions but Gedge is an exception . |
| 3 | You could be forgiven for thinking at first that Quick Help for WordPerfect has very few advantages over the help already supplied with WordPerfect . |
| 4 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
| 5 | He had met very few Americans in his life and his image of New York was a product of films and gialli , the thrillers he loved to read . |
| 6 | At the Third Reading , for instance , at a stage when one would expect very few amendments of any substance , some thirty-two amendments were put down on only twenty-four hours ' notice . |
| 7 | The past year has seen very few problems concerning the administration of drug testing programmes . |
| 8 | Mr Kirk says he 's had very few complaints about the letter . |
| 9 | If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day . |
| 10 | Some of those who thought the statement was true may have had very few experiences of extended dreams , and for them " dreaming " may literally consist of some recollections of thoughts or images which occurred immediately before waking up . |
| 11 | Bridget Ewing has had very few enquiries about Residential Homes ' Membership and she would be pleased to hear from more teachers involved in these type of classes . |
| 12 | The Middleborough mosaic shows very few inconsistencies of style , so few in fact , that there might be no need to postulate the presence of more than one mosaicist ( section 3.5 ) . |
| 13 | Quite a number of our own Edinburgh members are " on war service " have been able to trace very few records of women actually doing what is normally regarded as " war work " ( one went to be a nurse , " a few " went to work in munitions , one to the RAF , one to " the services " , undefined ) . |
| 14 | Therefore , DEC has sold very few machines in anticipation of the new range , but sales and marketing activities will be greatly stepped up when it arrives . |
| 15 | and they 'll do that and sort of get very few marks on it so watch |
| 16 | Coleman himself had used freelance credentials supplied by Mutual Radio to get into Libya after Operation El Dorado Canyon a year earlier , and he would meet very few stringers during his various spells of duty in the Middle East who did not supplement their incomes from journalism by supplying material to government agencies like the DEA . |
| 17 | I could discover very few details about either of these women . |
| 18 | Apart from in scene nine , where Anderson displays occasional discomfort through his hesitations ( 4 instances , most notably when explaining to Sacha why he came to the Hollars ' apartment ( p. 81 ) , and when giving assurances of what he will do to help Pavel ( p. 83 ) ) , we find very few instances of hesitations or unfinished turns ( no more than one instance of each in scenes seven , eight , ten and sixteen ) . |
| 19 | Some in the Republic believe , though , that the decision to call off the tours would suit the SARU , who have been made aware that three matches in four days in Bucharest in the middle of June followed by two in a week in Rome could leave very few survivors from heat stroke . |
| 20 | The government is now washing its hands of the industry as it hands it over to a rigged market which will leave very few pits in Britain and the destruction of an asset which the British people asked the government to save and which the government said they were going to save . |
| 21 | In many small rural districts these obligations can effectively pre-empt almost all ‘ voids ’ ( vacancies ) occurring during the year and leave very few opportunities for housing applicants from the general waiting list . |
| 22 | Some were observed with every group they taught whilst others had very few visits to lessons . |
| 23 | Until quite recently , the Japanese had very few problems with back pain ; now it is a problem that is getting rapidly more common . |
| 24 | The Arsenal pair might just be capable of staging the best road show since Hope and Crosby — but Ipswich had very few laughs at Highbury . |
| 25 | A school , you know , is like — ’ here the headmaster came to a halt , because he had launched into a metaphor without having a metaphor readily to hand ; and in fact he had very few notions of what a school was like — ‘ is like the human body . |
| 26 | By the time of the Lancaster House talks , Mrs Thatcher was in power , and I had very few dealings with her , and so I was not invited to participate . |
| 27 | It had very few jewels in its crown . |
| 28 | Koalas are extreme specialists — they eat very few things besides eucalyptus ; and eucalyptus is packed with fibre , tannins , and aromatic ( ‘ essential ’ ) oils which to most animals would be toxic . |
| 29 | In the UK there remain very few barriers to formal recognition of the Institute 's qualifications . |
| 30 | Yet at a time when decisive action against the Nazis might still have been effective the Swiss Carl Burckhardt made very few decisions at all . |