Example sentences of "be [art] few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 2 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 3 | Golden-leaved marjoram , yellow-variegated lemon balm , white-variegated pineapple mint , purple-leaved sage , blue rue , the filmy leaves of bronze fennel , and the pink , purple and blue , leaf-like bracts of clary are a few herbs of this kind . |
| 4 | This is not the place to explain logic , but there are a few bits of terminology which occur often in this subject which are not entirely standard . |
| 5 | There are a few glimmers of hope , however , since fewer firms are having trouble collecting fees and all but the larger firms are optimistic about increasing their client base . |
| 6 | Could you see that there are a few crates of champagne — those half-bottles , so convenient for visitors . ’ |
| 7 | There are a few pairs of words ( minimal pairs ) in which a difference in meaning appears to depend on whether a particular is syllabic or not , for example : But we find no case of syllabic where it would not be possible to substitute either non-syllabic ( type a ) or ( type b ) ; in the examples above , ‘ Hungary ’ could equally well be pronounced and ‘ adulterous ’ as . |
| 8 | Significantly , there are a few areas of overlap , which will allow very effective dovetailing between our operations . |
| 9 | There are a few touches of delirium in Lecercle 's text itself , as he would certainly be delighted to admit ; I take them to be caused by an invasion of normal English by French . |
| 10 | There are a few accents of English which may do this , so that , for example , ‘ cattle ’ is pronounced , but this is not the case in RP . |
| 11 | There are a few signs of that fierce screwing up of feudal payments characteristic of the later stages of the ancien régime in France ; in Catalonia , for instance , a steady increase in the price of the farms of feudal dues overtook the rise in agricultural prices . |
| 12 | It continued as a draught animal into the nineteenth century and even into the twentieth century here and there , and today there are a few teams of working Sussex oxen at open-air museums and farm parks . |
| 13 | Here are a few indications of the different laws worldwide where a stolen work is put up for sale . |
| 14 | Fish normally seek out the warmer shallows , and if there are a few days of sunshine before opening day then you will know where to choose on the bank . |
| 15 | Usually , it is preferable if there are a few days of further careful assessment of the patient before such steps are taken . |
| 16 | Here are a few bars of an imaginary harp part , to make the method of notation clear : |
| 17 | There are a few examples of maverick programmes ( like Rapido ) selling themselves , so , encouraged , we decided we had not too much to lose ( more money … ) : we should check out the world 's biggest film and TV market , MIPCOM . |
| 18 | The following projects are a few examples of those that exist around the country . |
| 19 | However , there are success stories and the following are a few examples of ICI 's recent initiatives on recycling : |
| 20 | These are a few examples of community initiatives that have taken place : |
| 21 | But there are a few details of chapters 1–3 which we should mention . |
| 22 | There are a few items of Interest , but generally , local news is scarce . |
| 23 | There are a few items of Interest , but generally , local news is scarce . |
| 24 | What will be a few minutes of footage on the screen took all day to film . |
| 25 | Well , it 'll be dry this evening and for much of the night , but the cloud 's going to thicken and there could be a few spots of light rain over high ground by dawn . |
| 26 | In actual fact , all that may be offered may be a few strands of tobacco which , in many contexts , are assumed to suffice . |
| 27 | There may be a few examples of marsh woundwort stachys palustris still flowering during October . |
| 28 | It need only be a few seconds of me singin' or something but you 'd be gettin' straight to a certain type of literate , intelligent audience . |
| 29 | Oh , I 'm absolutely sure it is , as , as I say there will be a few months of real suffering in , in eastern Germany and it may be a year and a half to two years before East Germany begans to , begins to show up plus figures , er on , instead of minus figures on the national statistics . |
| 30 | There may even be a few glimpses of the sun with the temperature up to 8 Celsius , 46 Fahrenheit and with very little wind . |