Example sentences of "[pron] have been few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Catch 22 problem was that for several years there had been few big headlines about fusion as no dramatic breakthroughs had been occurring . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In 1940 and 1941 there had been few links between Free France and the clandestine movements in France . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | THERE have been few hiding places for the French coach Jacques Fouroux since the embarrassment of defeat against Australia at Strasbourg . |
| 9 | For Essex there have been few such problems , and his batting has been , after Keith Fletcher 's captaincy , probably the chief reason for their successes . |
| 10 | There have been few set pieces . |
| 11 | However , historians and contra-cyclical investors may argue that there have been few five year periods since the Second World War when deposits have outperformed equities — and stock markets should revive over the next five years . |
| 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 | A levels have been the subject of considerable criticism over the years , but there have been few serious demands that they should be replaced . |
| 15 | The office is one workplace where there have been few major changes — the ball-point pen and the photocopier hardly qualify as major — in half a century , since telephones took over . |
| 16 | As yet there have been few large-scale studies of technicians involved in scaling up genetic engineering processes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There have been few serious attempts to break away from this restrictive framework ; it is the absence of the application of any theoretical framework that has made such work so sterile , and it is doubtful whether evidence will be found for the social and economic developments during the period by studying art-styles , date and distribution alone , unless specific questions are formulated first . |
| 20 | There have been few detailed studies of the technology of particular types of artefact , or products requiring tools in their manufacture . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There have been few controlled prospective studies of the effect of transferring to human insulin on the clinical presentation of hypoglycaemia . |
| 24 | There have been few relationships of that kind in my life . |
| 25 | There have been few occasions since then when she has experienced such remorseless enthusiasm . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | There have been few detailed research studies that have examined arrest rates of those living in the same areas or sentencing in both the magistrates ' courts and the Crown Court in one study . |
| 28 | Other assessment and gatekeeper roles exist because , at least in the past , there have been few alternatives to doctors as sufficiently skilled and entrusted guardians of limited public resources . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ( 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 . ) |