Example sentences of "a few [noun] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a few authorities have been treated in this fashion and they are the councils which have substantially exceeded government targets for local expenditure . |
| 2 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 3 | Although only a few cases have been studied , it seems probable that extensive infiltration and smooth muscle replacement by amyloid deposits occur in patients with AH amyloidosis , as shown in our case . |
| 4 | This is not an area where policies and procedures can be formulated after a few incidents have been experienced . |
| 5 | A clear run of four hundred yards was obtained after a few holes had been filled in . |
| 6 | Near one of the posts , a hammer and a few nails had been left behind . |
| 7 | A few stars have been known to undergo more than one major outburst ; the ‘ Blaze Star ’ , T Coronæ in the Northern Crown , is usually of about the tenth magnitude , but flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 . |
| 8 | A few freaks have been discovered from time to time , one amazing animal tipping the scales at no less than 43 lbs and a dwarf specimen at as little as 3 lbs , but these were abnormal . |
| 9 | A few luxuries have been smuggled in by canoe from the Solomons , which Bougainville is geographically and culturally close to . |
| 10 | This infill bears few craters , and only a few craters have been partially obscured , indicating that the whole Caloris basin since its creation has suffered few impacts and is therefore comparatively recent . |
| 11 | A few things have been achieved , I suppose . |
| 12 | When examined in respect of his own involvement , von Keller denied that more than a few objects had been taken ; and stated that , as to his having appropriated the dormeuse for himself , there was never any question of sharing it . |
| 13 | This usually has no effect ( although a few users have been sick , in which case another form of abortion is offered ) and she 's then sent home . |
| 14 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 15 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 16 | " After seven hours we arrived in Ekondo Jundu , a village in a forest clearing , where only a few outsiders had been seen before . |
| 17 | Petrol , food and a few tools had been his biggest expenses so far , and if the budget started to tighten he 'd have to stop buying food and see what he could find in the woodland around him . |
| 18 | A few examples have been found where a number of graptoloids seem to have been associated together attached ( by the nema ) to a ‘ float ’ . |
| 19 | A few examples have been found made from silver , which was a metal commonly used for finger rings in the 1st century AD . |
| 20 | A few names have been bandied about the circuit , but I 'll predict that Ballymena 's Russell Morrow , the assistant manager for the past few years , will get the vote . |
| 21 | In practice a few frogs have been produced by killing the egg nucleus by ultraviolet irradiation , and replacing it with the nucleus from a cell of the gut of a tadpole . |
| 22 | The following evening , when everyone returned to the hotel , quite a few fish had been caught , even a couple of Naver salmon . |
| 23 | Beyond his office , where the desert stretches for miles to the Mazatzal mountains , a few fields have been scraped clear . |
| 24 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 25 | Although a few jobs have been lost , the workforce today is nearly 200 , whose jobs are now more secure because of automation . |
| 26 | ‘ Would it be too suspicious-sounding to ask where we 're going ? ’ she enquired huskily , after a few miles had been gobbled up by the powerful car . |
| 27 | Only a few prosecutions have been brought under this Act . |
| 28 | After a few modifications had been made , based on Frank 's own playing requirements , this model emerged as a bastard offspring of the Saber — the family lineage basically intact , but with a wilder spirit and some distinctly antipodean overtones . |
| 29 | A few modifications have been made to it to accommodate foreign words but , generally speaking , it is the words rather than the syllabary that get modified and some get very thoroughly modified indeed . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , I know a few Romanies have been sent to prison for poaching — but so have a great many gorgios . |