Example sentences of "[verb] been few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 2 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 3 | One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production . |
| 4 | Her pack slapped against her back as she jumped down beside Defries , reminding her that she was at last running out of supplies : there had been few explosives on the shuttle . |
| 5 | In parish churches , however , there was a long period of stagnation , although there were improvements in standards and taste , and until the time of Vatican II there had been few developments in the Liturgy and its music . |
| 6 | There had been few expectations that the Chancellor would announce a significant change of course , but disappointment that Mr Lawson said nothing new on monetary policy sent sterling 0.50 pfennigs lower to close at DM2.9562 . |
| 7 | In 1940 and 1941 there had been few links between Free France and the clandestine movements in France . |
| 8 | ( Tie-in sales and full-line forcing could be caught by Article 85(1) but there have been few cases ; Article 86 is the more likely to be relevant . ) |
| 9 | Despite rapid advances in computer technology in the last three decades , there have been few changes in the methods by which communication with computers is achieved . |
| 10 | There have been few disagreements over major planning issues and there has been surprisingly little explicit community opposition to MDC — except from the Black community in Toxteth . |
| 11 | His name has been moderately conjured with by British academics , but there have been few attempts to systematize his work for the classroom , as has happened in the United States . |
| 12 | There have been few attempts to portray mental handicap in the theatre , and despite its progressive nature , the theatre has been slow to respond to the challenge on offer . |
| 13 | The overall conclusion is that while there is no shortage of regular comment and coverage of mental handicap in the mass media , there have been few attempts over recent years to explore the subject in any depth , and those that have , have focussed on the sensational and the controversial . |
| 14 | There have been few attempts to show this , but Barry Cunliffe 's diagram of Chalton settlements and the series of changes shown for Bullock Down in Sussex are interesting analyses which deserve to be emulated . |
| 15 | Surprisingly , though , there have been few attempts to acknowledge the fluidity of Renaissance plays . |
| 16 | THERE have been few moments , if any , in the century-long history of Sheffield football rivalry when a goal by a Wednesday player has set United followers dancing with delight . |
| 17 | There have been few studies of office automation applications , but projections about specific skill requirements are extremely difficult to make at present because it is as yet quite unclear how office automation will be used . |
| 18 | Although there have been few studies of public opinion and corporate crime ( Cullen et al. 1982 ; Newman 1957 ; Reed and Reed 1975 ; Rossi et al. 1974 ; Schrager and Short 1980 ; Sinden 1980 ; Wolfgang 1980 ) , they do provide a window on what can best be described as ‘ collective ignorance ’ . |
| 19 | There have been few studies looking at the sexual risk of HIV infection for women who have sex with women and so there are few reported cases of women infected in this way . |
| 20 | Although most country parks are monitored by crude counts of visitors , there have been few studies of whether they have achieved the aims set out above . |
| 21 | There have been few studies of adults with cystic fibrosis with respect to employment , education , housing , insurance , and other features of lifestyle , and most such studies have been based on patients attending large clinics , who may be unrepresentative of the total population with the disease . |
| 22 | There have been few studies of the social and emotional effects of incontinence . |
| 23 | Crucially , there have been few captains more adept at winning against long odds , which , as Pakistan have recently demonstrated , is the very essence of one-day cricket . |
| 24 | It is unclear , however , whether the impaired gastrointestinal motility is secondary to the effects of amyloid on the smooth muscle or on the autonomic nervous system , because there have been few reports assessing the clinicopathologic features in a considerable number of amyloidosis patients with intestinal pseudo-obstruction . |
| 25 | Until now there have been few reports on hepatic failure caused by disorders of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation . |
| 26 | The reason there have been few accidents is that the road is so dangerous pedestrians avoid it and both Scorton residents and the many visitors to the area are denied pedestrian access to the village . |
| 27 | Despite these technological advances there have been few developments in the method of communicating with the computer , which remains keyboard-based . |
| 28 | There have been few relationships of that kind in my life . |
| 29 | There have been few occasions since then when she has experienced such remorseless enthusiasm . |
| 30 | There is , therefore , a strong case for funding of melanoma surveillance programmes or clinics aimed at facilitating early diagnosis for individuals with atypical naevi , especially given that , despite intensive research , there have been few advances in the management of melanoma that has spread beyond the primary site . |