Example sentences of "be few [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As many of you will know , from first hand experience , there are few things which have a greater impact on morale and productivity , than the working environment and associated facilities . |
| 2 | There are few countries which choose to rely on imports of basic cereals ( wheat , rice etc. ) if they can avoid it . |
| 3 | And there are few effects which require more time or effort to achieve . |
| 4 | As yet , there are few studies which describe the economic circumstances of households since April 1988 . |
| 5 | There are few rivers which are able to maintain a course across the grain of the land to penetrate from the interior to the sea . |
| 6 | There are few occupations which are so tightly professionalized as the academic profession ( Perkin 1973 , Neave 1979a ) ; a fact which helps to explain why on the whole it seems to work fairly harmoniously with the ‘ external ’ professions . |
| 7 | There are few documents which do not exhibit some of these features ; and none of these features is particularly restricted to any one kind of document . |
| 8 | As things currently stand , and there are no compelling reasons to think that matters will suddenly change , there are few theories which could meet the standard of being directly testable , though there are more subsidiary theories within larger frameworks which do gain , or lose , plausibility in light of empirical evidence . |
| 9 | But although this strategy may work for a few years , there are few parishes which have the physical space for more than two or three new congregations . |
| 10 | I suspect there are few poems which are able to make a youthful reader feel at close hand the desperation of the old as I perhaps am able to grasp having read such a beautiful piece of work . |
| 11 | This was because the landscape is flat , or gently undulating , and so there were few places which specially attracted people . |
| 12 | Also there were few places which were unsuitable , or repelled people . |
| 13 | As with the indecent assaults on males , there were few headlines which dwelt on the theme of sex fiends and sex beasts . |