Example sentences of "be [adv] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because there are rather few ways in which an image of the incident light can be formed . |
| 2 | Comparative anatomists tell us that there are remarkably few differences between our brains and those of monkeys and apes , other than that ours are bigger . |
| 3 | There are remarkably few fumblings between the main historical chapters as the narrative is handed from one writer to the next . |
| 4 | Given that there are so few women in powerful positions this may seem surprising . |
| 5 | ‘ It helps to be a woman and I can exploit that when it suits because there are so few women in Parliament and it concerns a lot of people . |
| 6 | Conservative Members tend to ignore the dangers for women bus users because there are so few women amongst them at the moment there are no women at all on the Government Benches . |
| 7 | While Montserrat and St Kitts-Nevis could plausibly provide the focus on the basis of the phonological evidence , it is unlikely in practice , as there are so few speakers of those varieties in Britain . |
| 8 | As the positive part of conventionalism shrinks in practical importance in court , because there are so few occasions for judges to rely on law as conventionalism construes this , so this particular defense of the negative part becomes weaker , for the exceptions steadily eat up the rule . |
| 9 | Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’ |
| 10 | There are now few villages without their complement of newcomers who work in towns . |
| 11 | There are now few areas in the world where the impact of the TNCs has not been researched by someone and good examples of this type of study are Kowaleski ( 1982 ) on the Caribbean , Onimode et al. |
| 12 | The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person . |
| 13 | Make sure there are as few interruptions to the work as possible . |
| 14 | There are comparatively few women in public positions , in politics or the trade unions , for instance . |
| 15 | In both cases the limitations of vocabulary should not be seen necessarily to imply any lack of ability for abstract thought : these animals are using an alien tool to communicate with a species ( us ) whose intellectual make-up is quite alien to them , so it is hardly surprising that there are comparatively few areas of common ground that can be described using human words . |
| 16 | There are comparatively few doctors of medicine , barristers , solicitors , or clerks in holy orders . |
| 17 | But your lordship says right , it is better there should be as few hands in the chain as may be . |
| 18 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |
| 19 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 20 | Since severe visual handicap , especially total blindness , has a low incidence among school-aged children in the United Kingdom , it is likely that there will be very few children in each local education authority whose education requires significant adaptation as a result of lack of sight or substantially defective vision . |
| 21 | There will be very few privacies in this family which wo n't be relevant to your investigation , Commander . ’ |
| 22 | In addition , there may be too few children in each age group for them to benefit fully from some of the recommended classroom activities . |
| 23 | In attempting to specify the features of a viable socialist economy we are not embarking on entirely uncharted water , though there are surprisingly few texts on which to draw , given the size and long history of the Western socialist movements . |
| 24 | This exemption aside , there are surprisingly few perks for the RIE . |
| 25 | There are surprisingly few recordings from Europe or America to suggest that this important issue has been raised and discussed . |
| 26 | There are relatively few customers for industrial kilns , but many consumers buying tins of baked beans ! |
| 27 | The first is virtually impossible in the UK because of government legislation , and there are relatively few teachers with a native knowledge of BSL who have not been told in the past that it is an impoverished way of communicating . |
| 28 | There are relatively few countries at the top of the spectrum : uncomfortably many have per capita incomes that are very low indeed . |
| 29 | As M. W. Eysenck ( 1982 ) points out , unless studies collect data over a large range of different arousal levels , there are relatively few patterns of results which are actually inconsistent with an inverted-U relationship . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , it seems clear that there are relatively few ranges of values for the numbers that would allow the development of any form of intelligent life . |