Example sentences of "it [verb] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third need is to remember that while the 1988 Act changed many aspects of management from the point of view of the insider , it changed few things from the point of view of the parents , the employer or the public . |
| 2 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 3 | It has few exemptions , though it sets annual ceilings on how much individual patients pay . |
| 4 | The Office is currently considering the establishment of a computer-readable data archive ( CRDA ) , and although it has few answers to the problems facing the world archival community in such matters , I hope that it is in the position to ask some interesting questions . |
| 5 | But even if the Church takes this controversial step , there remains the fact that it has few structures for evaluating its chief resource . |
| 6 | But it has few powers if they refuse . |
| 7 | As a monument to extravagance of taste it has few equals in England , although it may not entirely justify the descriptions of a series of upended turnips stuck on boxes or St Paul 's pups which two irreverent contemporaries , William Cobbett and Dean Smith , bestowed on it . |
| 8 | In the main it causes few problems , but in recent years there has been a rise in cases that cause conflict for the advice worker . |
| 9 | It uses few resources except your own leg-power and is enjoyable , easy-ish and infinitely cheaper . |
| 10 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 11 | So we have a story that may or may not be a story ( it had already appeared in The People back in January , when it raised few eyebrows ) , and a news reporter who suddenly finds himself giving press conferences rather than attending them . |
| 12 | Stylistically it asks few questions , becoming quickly locked into a limited area of harmonic discourse . |
| 13 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
| 14 | It had few ornaments : a vase or two , an ashtray and a couple of ceramic figures . |
| 15 | Because aggression is ritualised in this way , it poses few threats to the individuals involved . |
| 16 | Trying to stay ahead of the game now that Unix System Labs is soon to have the weight of Novell Inc behind it , Santa Cruz Operation Inc — in conjunction with its IXI Ltd division — says it will begin to offer a fully integrated Common Open Software Environment platform as soon as possible , something it believes few outfits have the resources to do . |
| 17 | Trying to stay ahead of the game now that Unix System Laboratories Inc is soon to have the weight of Novell Inc behind it , Santa Cruz Operation Inc — in conjunction with its IXI division — says it will begin to offer a fully integrated Common Open Software Environment system as soon as possible , something it believes few outfits have the resources to do . |
| 18 | It leaves few hostages to fortune with regard to the department of the environment . |