Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We offer help to pupils with varying needs — general learning problems , specific learning difficulties , the filling of gaps caused by changing schools and , recently , the provision of extra teaching for a few children whose educational attainment is far in excess of that of their peers . |
| 2 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 3 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 4 | These organisations are rare , although an example might be a partnership of a few individuals who do all the work of the organisation themselves ( with perhaps a little administrative assistance ) . |
| 5 | Last year SmithKline Beecham , who make Ribena , were forced to come to a secret cash deal with a dozen families who threatened a court case claiming their children 's teeth were rotted by the so-called ‘ healthy ’ baby drink . |
| 6 | This raises public awareness and the press is always interested in hard statistics ; so if you can say several hundred people signed the petition in an afternoon or over the course of a few days it will undoubtedly earn you publicity . |
| 7 | Over the course of a few weeks they will probably spend several hours in the bureau familiarising themselves with bureau practice before their formal selection interview . |
| 8 | Having worked at Billingham for a few years he was appointed as a commissioning engineer for an ammonia plant in Canada before moving in 1985 to manage the leading concept ammonia [ LCA ] plant at Severnside , Avonmouth . |
| 9 | When the crowd sang Flower Of Scotland deep into the final quarter of the match , Hastings responded with a brilliant diagonal run off a dummy scissors which would have brought a try for Reed in the corner but for courageous defending from Davies . |
| 10 | But if you leave a child for a few minutes he may find the pills you keep in the bedside drawer and poison himself . |
| 11 | Therefore the few staff sit up late at night to prepare lectures on a few things they know about and a lot of things they know not much about , and spend their time keeping one page ahead of the class and depending on the textbook . |
| 12 | She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector . |
| 13 | Often the reaction to other foods is only temporary — if they are eliminated from the diet for a few months they can be eaten again without difficulty . |
| 14 | The name , New Millennium , means the new period of a thousand years which will start in the year 2000–1 and it also suggests an era of peace and harmony . |
| 15 | SPRINGFIELDS employee Bal Misry has been awarded £2,392 for a money-saving suggestions he made about weld samples . |
| 16 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 17 | Maskell first here 's his record … over the years he 's nearly averaging a goal every other game … quarter of a million pounds he cost Swindon … one of the bargain buys of the season … |
| 18 | He also considers ahi sā to be a more effective means of liberation than revolution , because , in his view , the self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a more potent force than the sacrifice of a million men who might die |
| 19 | Cavan 's biggest problem is tradition according to Reilly , so much so that if a manager does n't deliver the goods within a few years he 's gone and a new one comes along . |
| 20 | For reasons principally of economy , most county councils have preferred to concentrate development on a few villages which can then conveniently be provided with the full range of public amenities — schools , shops , libraries , sewerage facilities and so on-This saves on the enormous cost of duplicating amenities in every village and helps to direct and contain population growth to a few well-chosen sites . |
| 21 | He expects to raise more money from a small corporations which will pay for 12 months research and development work at the abandoned well . |
| 22 | At first I was too busy to see any change in myself , but one morning after a few weeks our flight was coming to the end of a five-mile run . |
| 23 | They mentioned the names of a few judges who they did not think highly of . |
| 24 | There are exceptions , of course ; anyone can quote the names of a few specialists who have attained local or even national eminence . |
| 25 | In Ethiopia , in the midst of war and facing famine , CAFOD is working with thousands of people in a dozen communities who are seeking to protect the topsoil in their fields , building irrigation channels , planting trees and learning new farming techniques so that millions of acres of farmland in their country may remain fertile . |
| 26 | I 've invited Jack to a few receptions which Clare would have attended , but even so … . ’ |
| 27 | The bathroom 's a bit chilly but once you 've put that heater on and shut the door for a few minutes it 's |
| 28 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 29 | In the space of a few moments one crossed a cultural divide now generations deep . |
| 30 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |