Example sentences of "[coord] few [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And few would disagree that , given the fanaticism and sheer ferocity of tabloid prejudice , it would be unreasonable for gay people to expect that Labour should adopt our cause as an election issue . |
| 2 | The tactic of confronting the ‘ wasted vote ’ syndrome did not , as some had feared , backfire , and few would have predicted that the issue of proportional representation would have been splashed across front pages . |
| 3 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 4 | Nobody can long sustain the argument that all fat per se is bad , and few would argue at great length that a diet containing small amounts of saturated fat ( which butter decidedly is ) is unacceptable . |
| 5 | It is nonetheless clear that many valuable initiatives in the care of frail elderly people have arisen from the voluntary sector and few would seriously dispute a model of partnership between voluntary and statutory endeavour . |
| 6 | Holly 's movement was very quick , sudden , and few would have seen the gesture . |
| 7 | Those standing by the IBM shares for the sake of the thumping 6% plus yield now recognise that the dividend is safe only so long as the present management team is in place — and few would gamble much now on John Akers and his cronies seeing the year out . |
| 8 | if there are lapses , obsessions , aberrations — and few would deny that there are — in the practise of the new style chefs , well , Pomiane was a man with a sense of humour and without a sense of self-importance . |
| 9 | Howard Middle says he is ‘ pretty cautious about a quick recovery in ‘ 93 or'94 ’ , and few would disagree . |
| 10 | Otherwise , Hibs could now go on their summer holidays and few would notice . |
| 11 | Of course not all policemen are in absolute positions of command even though they represent the maintenance of structure in more than a symbolic way ; and few can move into communitas to experience the temptations described above . |
| 12 | It was Rush 's 287th goal in a record-breaking career and few can have been better , cancelling out Niall Quinn 's opener and leaving this fixture locked in stalemate for the third successive season . |
| 13 | And few could ask for more than that . |
| 14 | A clever way of stifling discussion and few could have done it so well . |
| 15 | They will be on the long road home on the following day , and few could afford to fly . |
| 16 | I have no doubt that if the ground is in his favour Carvill 's Hill will start a good favourite and few will want to oppose him . |
| 17 | Put up a sign , ‘ No through road ’ , and few will venture to ask ‘ Why ? ’ or ‘ Are you sure ? ’ |
| 18 | Brighton , now £4m in debt and losing £1,000 a day , will reap almost £100,000 from the two games — and few will deny them their rich pickings . |
| 19 | Many of the women will have stopped and few will have started smoking . |
| 20 | And few will now back a manager who sends on a defender when his side is struggling to retrieve pride and reputation , let alone the result . |
| 21 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 22 | All centuries , of course , have been centuries of change ; but few would deny that in the nineteenth century change was greatly accelerated ; that much was apparent to the more perceptive of those living at that time . |
| 23 | But few would deny that it bears more hardly on women . |
| 24 | Other indications for circumcision are less clear cut , but few would dispute that recurrent balanoposthitis warrants surgical treatment . |
| 25 | Not everyone holds IBM Corp 's PS/2 product line in the highest possible regard , but few would put it quite the way Reuter did : ‘ the PS/2 Server is a faulty tolerant server system designed for Novell NetWare environments ’ it declared roundly . |
| 26 | Some , of course , deny that such purity of method is possible but few would argue with the proposition that where a description of law is coloured by the expositor 's own values it is a virtue for these values explicitly to be registered . |
| 27 | This put Doctor Who 's recording schedules back by one week , but few would deny the worth of having done it . |
| 28 | Where Keynes is concerned , they have long recognized his importance as an inspiration between the wars for a certain type of progressive , Lib-Lab politics : but few could pass an examination in Keynesian theory . |
| 29 | Quite a lot of fans , at one point or another , succeeded in starting off chants and songs , but few could do so consistently . |
| 30 | The battle now shifted to parliament , where the second reading was carried by a huge majority on 22 May ; many Unionists spoke against the Bill , but few could bring themselves to oppose it in principle , and so Sanders could mobilize only forty MPs to go with him into the No lobby . |