Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown Owl needs to lose a few feathers for the summer |
| 2 | TWO scientists from Stirling University expect to shed a few tears at tonight 's United Kingdom premiere of a Hollywood film that tells the extraordinary story of Augusto and Michaela Odone 's love for their son Lorenzo . |
| 3 | Sydney : Concern about the performance of News Corporation following a warning by Rupert Murdoch helped to pull the All Ordinaries index down 17.5 points to 1,755.8 , the day 's low . |
| 4 | When they had left , Julia wondered whether to say anything or not , but David seemed to have no such inhibitions . |
| 5 | I had suggested all cars would inevitably look the same , as rival designers struggled to meet the same constraints dictated by safety requirements and ever-better fuel economy . |
| 6 | Amidst the unhilarious mayhem , a bespectacled and wide-eyed Dustin managed to time a few gags well , but became swamped by the strained and desperate elements of the ridiculous plot . |
| 7 | This study aimed to use the same methods to examine anorectal function in 23 patients with complete supraconal spinal cord lesions and to determinate the relationship between the site of the lesion and the existence of inconsistent phenomena . |
| 8 | There is some repetition as the authors backtrack to report the same developments from different points of view and new characters are introduced ; the detailed mathematical discussions do become daunting for the non-specialist reader . |
| 9 | Whereas European countries tended to acquire public ownership of the assets of natural monopolies , the United States preferred to handle the same problems through public regulation of industries whose assets were left in private ownership . |
| 10 | Sharpe tried to save a few seconds by vaulting the banister . |
| 11 | At the end of the meal , Dominic came to have a few words with me . |
| 12 | Despite the over-arching presence of a sizeable clutch of masterstrokes , the Inspirals manage to deliver a few turkeys — ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ , for all its anthemic pretensions , still sounds like cloying Radio 2 fodder , and arty pieces like ‘ Flood ’ are prone to descend into unseemly pomposity . |
| 13 | Iran 's relations with other West European countries began to improve a few months after the initial call by Ayatollah Khomeini for Rushdie 's death , although Rafsanjani 's statement in May 1989 advocating the killing of five Westerners for every Palestinian killed in the occupied territories [ see pp. 36669-70 ] drew a strong rebuke from the Council of Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 14 | Sukarno hoped to employ the same techniques as had broken Dutch resistance in New Guinea . |
| 15 | Robert tried to marshal a few facts about twelfth-century Iran . |
| 16 | It can only be hoped that the newly aggressive financial players of the Thatcher era manage to avoid the same errors . |
| 17 | He walked so slowly that Piper had to stop every few seconds and wait for him to catch up . |
| 18 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 19 | But both firms happen to have the same dividends and the same share price , so that the net and gross dividend yields are the same at 5.31 and 7.08 per cent respectively . |
| 20 | In itself this was not so radical a departure from polling methods , and soon Gallup and other agencies began to adopt the same methods . |
| 21 | However , the classical writers tended to transfer the same principles of adjustment from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic plane , though their applicability at this level of aggregation is altogether more problematical , as Keynes was to point out . |
| 22 | Crews and sponsors tend to frequent the same restaurants , pubs and hotels . |
| 23 | The more the CIA tried to investigate the more inconsistencies they turned up . |
| 24 | Her father 's eldest sister , the aunt who now had the villa near Ravello where Sophia hoped to spend a few days after the visit to Rome , was in some ways very much like an older version of Penelope . |
| 25 | They were close up to the car when the brown-haired man of average build left his car and Ven Gajdusek halted to exchange a few words in Czech with him . |
| 26 | His voice seemed to fill the few inches ' space between them , bringing them even closer . |
| 27 | Anne managed to get a few days off work during his ten-day leave , and as he had few relatives to visit , they were able to spend blissful hours alone . |
| 28 | In its turn , the government rejected FMLN accusations that it was misleading national and international opinion into believing that the Treasury Police and National Guard had been disbanded when , according to the guerrillas , these forces continued to occupy the same installations , with the same structures and weapons but wearing a different uniform . |
| 29 | The pensioners ' organization threatened to defend the former pensions law through the courts . |
| 30 | The combatants try to score the most points possible , using techniques which involve actual body contact . |