Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that we have lead-free split-shot , which is more expensive than lead shot , more care goes into its manufacture and there should be few problems . |
| 2 | Done really effectively there should be few , if indeed any , survivors and by a continuation of this method big areas of woodland can be tackled efficiently . |
| 3 | These should be few and simple , and must certainly not involve them in any anxiety , or a sharp increase in effort or expenditure . |
| 4 | There are times when an item requires more thought but they should be few and far between . |
| 5 | Gujerati families which live as joint families in Britain and do not have , or have never had , this strict but uneasy hierarchy must be few and far between . |
| 6 | It is a land almost entirely owned and run by foreigners , though there must be few of Panama 's oligarchs — soldiers and landowners and bankers — who do not have an honorary passport or draw a regular remittance . |
| 7 | Mr Zamoyski was not entirely fluent in his adopted language , and there must be few people locally , other than his wife perhaps , with whom he could speak Polish . |
| 8 | ‘ There must be few meetings between you while you 're in London . |
| 9 | There must be few people in modern industrial societies who have not taken part in an interview for a social survey for the purposes of market research , public opinion polling or academic research ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 10 | There could be few better ways of becoming tolerably wellinformed about Matteo Ricci , Hugo Grotius , Matthew Wren , Prince Rupert or Rapin de Thoyras ( among others ) than to turn to this collection . |
| 11 | Translating them into actual events , there could be few people who had anticipated that a British Airways Boeing 747 would suffer loss of power on all four engines for sixteen minutes when it flew into a volcanic ash cloud at 37 000 feet . |
| 12 | And I 'm sure there 'd be few objections to such a worthwhile cause . |
| 13 | The number of links needed to complete referral may be few or many ; the speed at which connections are made may be swift or protracted ; and the order may be sequential to concurrent . |
| 14 | For them , there may be few regular callers apart from the men and women who deliver their post and their milk . |
| 15 | Give me friends every time — and the friends we 've got may be few , but they 're jolly good ones , ’ said Breeze . |
| 16 | Facilities for treatment may be few and far between and inaccessible , especially for overlanders and for those taking more adventurous trips . |
| 17 | There may be few opportunities for entertainment other than within the home . |
| 18 | There may be few black teachers in the school and fewer in senior positions . |
| 19 | There may be few today who are quite so confident about the precision with which children can be shaped , yet with respect to at least one of the above vocations , that of thief , many current theories of delinquency still concur that the roots of the condition are to be sought in the child 's early years . |
| 20 | Without it , there may be few coming forward to serve the Church in the twenty-first century . |
| 21 | But while new forms may be few , the flow of new language is strong . |
| 22 | Early diagnosis is difficult partly because the denial systems of primary sufferers , family members and others make it hard to get a clear picture , especially when there may be few adverse consequences . |
| 23 | Clearly in such developments there may be few , if any , erosional breaks , but there must be immense non-depositional breaks . |
| 24 | They may be few and far between , but they cause worry to elderly people who fear that the gap may lead to them being put in the same position . |
| 25 | There may be few actual options that lawyers can ponder over . |
| 26 | ‘ It was a bank holiday and I knew there would be few buses and even fewer taxis in Harley Street if I felt threatened . ’ |
| 27 | But I am sure that the Treasury could run such a system and there would be few tears for the banks we have now . |
| 28 | There would be few such people in the Black Land now . |
| 29 | Yet there are unlikely to be many governors or bodies of parents who would disapprove of the more or less traditional approach of putting class teachers first , and there would be few who would persist in wanting the headteacher 's draft management plan — his or her daily manner of organizing and managing the school — to be changed as the result of open and equal argument between staff of all categories . |
| 30 | Alcohol Concern 's director , Eric Appleby , said the rise in duty was so small that there would be few benefits , either in financial or health terms . |