Example sentences of "[prep] a [adv] [adj] cases " in BNC.
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1 | For the study of local history there is , except in a very few cases , little need to look before Saxon times . |
2 | Only in a very few cases can incompleteness be acceptable . |
3 | In a very few cases , serious mental disorders similar to schizophrenia or mania have been reported that may be due to a direct effect of HIV on the brain . |
4 | However , you need also to know that in a very few cases , you can get a negative result even though you are infected . |
5 | In all Boards there was certainly an increase in red tape and committee work , and perhaps a loss of initiative and an unwillingness to take responsibility among managers and engineers , and , in a very few cases , simple unchecked extravagance . |
6 | Only in a very few cases are points awarded explicitly to recognize the need to reside in specific rural locations , which is a sad reflection on the past role of allocation policy . |
7 | It 's an allergic condition , usually pretty harmless , but in a very few cases it causes oedema of the larynx — that 's what we 've got here . " |
8 | The sign made up of these two elements is arbitrary for two reasons : because , more obviously , the association of a signifier ( the sound-image ‘ tree ’ ) with a signified ( the concept tree ) is , except in a very few cases , fundamentally the product of linguistic convention , not of any natural link ; and , less obviously , because there is also no natural or necessary relationship between the sign as a whole and the reality to which it refers . |