Example sentences of "and [verb] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are mostly technical and make few concessions to the casual browser . |
| 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 | For a start , the visual tests used in these experiments are simple in the extreme and place few demands on the discriminative capacity of the system . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It became even more individualistic and displayed few signs of the closely knit and hierarchically organized structure of the previous era . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It contained no clues to Henry 's professional interests and gave few hints about his private tastes . |
| 8 | They would tend to withdraw from their surroundings , showing little interest in those around them and making few demands upon them . |
| 9 | Although he had passed Responsions and had few debts at Oxford except for books , his father was already apprehensive about the cost of an Oxford education , with Ernest in his final year of training to be an art-teacher and Reggie with a consuming passion for Shakespeare and the stage , and no other interest . |
| 10 | I see their hopes like Masai villages , impermanent and leaving few marks on the landscape . |
| 11 | Sadly they probably do not know much of the Bible and have few friends among the saints , so they opt for one of the little poems which some newspapers have on offer in a little book . |
| 12 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 13 | Men are notoriously " macho " and have few scruples about abandoning their women , who are left to take sole responsibility for their children . |
| 14 | They tend to receive an unsatisfactory education , harbour poor employment prospects and have few ways of creating a positive self-concept . |
| 15 | Although much of this aggression has now been bred out of the fish , they are still relatively ‘ boisterous ’ , and have few qualms about eating fish smaller than themselves . |