Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 2 | Persian rugs have traditionally been considered the most expensive and easily re-saleable of all oriental rugs , and allowing for a few notable exceptions ( usually older and more collectable items from different parts of the world ) , this assumption has generally held true . |
| 3 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 4 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 5 | Unfortunately I ca n't imagine any chairman introducing measures that would make it harder for him to flog of a few prised assets in order to raise some hard cash . |
| 6 | Without bothering to confirm the report , Guretzky-Cornitz passed it on to Army HQ , embellished with a few boastful addenda of his own . |
| 7 | It all starts with a few slow miles in the suburbs , then out into the Suffolk countryside , with a long trail of runner snaking their way along narrow country lanes . |
| 8 | All of their problems could have been solved with a few simple decisions but they seemed to have been robbed of their ability to think straight . ’ |
| 9 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 10 | When animals do not fall into a few simple categories , quantitative genetic techniques become more practical . |
| 11 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 12 | This was because the scientific elite of the Athenaeum , on whom the correspondents relied , were well aware that research on controlled thermonuclear reactions was already being furtively pursued in a few British laboratories . |
| 13 | Rent a horse or a motor bike and explore on a few leisurely sorties . |
| 14 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 15 | Her smoking experiences , hitherto , had been confined to a few borrowed puffs from Walter Ash 's cigarettes , and some experimental moments , at the age of twelve , in the school bicycle shed . |
| 16 | On the one hand , production was modernized in ever larger factories and ownership was concentrated in a network of trusts , cartels and syndicates increasingly dominated by a few major banks . |
| 17 | However , until quite recently , the possibility of making recordings in Britain was dominated by a few large companies involved in manufacturing and distributing records as well as originating them . |
| 18 | But the same writer also showed his affinity with the notions of contemporary Christendom by observing that battles were won by a few renowned knights , and the army which had ‘ even one more famous warrior than its enemy must … win ’ . |
| 19 | Even very simple parts , consisting of a few long notes , are effective . |
| 20 | Wetlands transitional to wet pastures were also noted but in spite of considerable travel in these areas , I noted only two active drainage schemes , both consisting of a few open ditches mainly to facilitate surface water runoff . |
| 21 | ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’ |
| 22 | We started off just looking for a few cuddly toys and a few pounds to send them across to the folk in Roumania because we were all very touched by the need of the children there . |
| 23 | The winter sales may be coming to an end … but Gloucester 's rugby men are still looking for a few late bargains when they head north to Sale this weekend . |
| 24 | Somewhere ahead in the crags of Kielderhead Moor a hawk was whistling , a piercing sound in the lonely valley , overlain for a few heart-stopping moments by the snarl of a jet . |
| 25 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 26 | This might consist of a few simple rules and procedure to control decision-making and conflict , for example . |
| 27 | Leading international companies are discussing the latest recycling technology , showing what can be done with a few old bottles … and a little imagination . |
| 28 | Half way through the Blackeyes saga , it looks as though we are going to have to make do with a few set pieces of one-to-one hostility . |
| 29 | Yeah the T V could do with a few big ones , alright okay body stopper , they want you to have a T V on and be tempted , depends on what , how it went , to ask them to turn it off but if you ca n't that would upon them then you 'll have to work with it because what you do n't want to be seeing is okay they are there , you 're here and they 're concentrating on this . |
| 30 | For the historian of modern urbanization , scores of cities are available for direct inspection , while the ancient historian has to make do with a few fortuitous survivals . |