Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adv] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I stayed on at Bletchley — which I was reluctant to leave — I should scarcely ever see Leslie before the invasion of France , which we all knew was expected within a very few months . |
| 2 | The outrage in India stemmed from the very same reasons . |
| 3 | Although there are specialist personnel and industrial relations roles , we found that in smaller firms the negotiations with trade unions were carried by a very few managers . |
| 4 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 5 | The answer came in a very few days and was as follows : |
| 6 | As far as temperature went , the cut-off point was 6°C — when the temperature was below this no bats at all were detected , presumably because they would have needed to use more energy keeping warm than they would have got from the relatively few insects available for food . |
| 7 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 8 | There is likely to be ready agreement that experts of all varieties are to give advice based on the very same reasons which should sway ordinary people who wish to form their minds independently . |
| 9 | This French comedy , bound to be controversial , depended on the very same stereotypes Serreau claims to be subverting . |
| 10 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm so glad , ’ Leith replied , knowing from the very few comments Rosemary had let drop that she must have gone through a most unhappy time before Derek had finally left . |
| 12 | Some years ago professor Geach made an arrangement of this material , which the editors , professor G. H. von Wright and Miss G. E. M. Anscombe have retained with a very few alterations . |
| 13 | Many spring-flowering bulbs do well under deciduous trees , but if you want something to provide permanent ground cover choose from the relatively few plants that tolerate dry roots and poor light . |
| 14 | On the contrary , it will become clear that scientific investigations are thoroughly imbued with the very same assumptions we find in folklinguistic speculation . |
| 15 | His mischievous words , however , were to prove within a very few minutes appallingly prescient . |