Example sentences of "[adj] that few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays , he is sad that few teachers have the training , the freedom and thus the confidence in their own creative skills , to set such positive activities in motion . |
| 2 | Mechanical Engineering News — the newspaper of the IMEE — complained in January : ‘ It is obvious that few engineers understand the terminology and jargon that is prevalent in editorial copy and advertisements for computer systems . |
| 3 | Television is excellent for this , and Chomsky for long has had that great domain in which to show how governments and the big businesses linked to most television powers are very , very careful to be sure that few views are presented which violate the currently useful consensus . |
| 4 | On the one hand , the barons were confident that few clergy would rally to the support of Edward II . |
| 5 | Economic growth in the open world market economy has been so great that few governments are now in strong enough control over their civil societies to be able to deny them the chance to participate in this wealth-creating system . |
| 6 | The potential gain if one was ‘ exceptional ’ , however , and qualified for an early release is so powerful that few men are prepared to forego it The result is a shabby , futile process that Probation Officers feel makes subsequent work with inmates more difficult , that exasperates prison officers who see the time and energy in compiling reports as wasted , and infuriates prisoners for whom the probable refusal of parole , with its tiny element of uncertainty , makes prison life even harder to bear . |
| 7 | FROM the moment that Gary Mason announced his amiable presence at a gymnasium in London 's East End yesterday it was pleasingly evident that few fighters have been less inclined to flinch from the truth . |
| 8 | Given their view of the reports as generally descriptive , it is hardly surprising that few teachers felt that having to submit a written report on their school was in any measure a professional threat to them . |
| 9 | It is therefore not surprising that few questions are asked by the purchasers in markets overt and that these places are commonly used for disposing of stolen property . |
| 10 | It was not therefore surprising that few industries had a positive policy of encouraging the employment of those past statutory retirement pension age . |
| 11 | Given this continuing policy vacuum on the one hand and the implacable opposition of the judiciary to any attempts to fill it on the other , it is not altogether surprising that few attempts have been made to fashion an overall criminal justice strategy that would bring together sentencing and penal policy . |
| 12 | It was hardly surprising that few places could afford to entertain their lords for weeks on end . |