Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | ‘ Until we can get enough food through to stop people starving to death , you wo n't be able to stop those who are prepared to kill for the few precious supplies , ’ said Julian . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Without bothering to confirm the report , Guretzky-Cornitz passed it on to Army HQ , embellished with a few boastful addenda of his own . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When animals do not fall into a few simple categories , quantitative genetic techniques become more practical . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Rent a horse or a motor bike and explore on a few leisurely sorties . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Even very simple parts , consisting of a few long notes , are effective . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This might consist of a few simple rules and procedure to control decision-making and conflict , for example . |
| 28 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 29 | Leading international companies are discussing the latest recycling technology , showing what can be done with a few old bottles … and a little imagination . |
| 30 | 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 . |