Example sentences of "case of [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Acne may be a case of a few spots and blackheads , or it can be a highly distressing skin disease with redness , inflammation , pimples and even scarring . |
2 | He believes standards have only slipped in the case of a few companies , but that the press tends to seize on these examples and blow them up out of all proportion . |
3 | To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things . |
4 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
5 | It 's just a case of it 's just a case of a few individuals or people with rank who think they 've go so much power they 're gon na press people |