Example sentences of "[noun] to [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a change , though it was difficult to define it , except by reference to a few trivial details of behaviour . |
| 2 | A local newspaper in Sussex recently published a reader 's letter complaining that Darwin 's evolution theory is still taught in schools and colleges instead of creation , despite ‘ scientific evidence limiting the age of the Earth and Universe to a few thousand years ’ . |
| 3 | In the first two reports of the Commissioner , he drew attention to a few technical problems , such as wrong numbers being intercepted , and he did make recommendations as to how the procedures should be modified , describing these as being of ‘ no great importance ’ . |
| 4 | Along the way they had paid tribute to a few likely progenitors with covers of Wire , Cheap Trick and Kraftwerk songs , acquired a growing fanbase and a rep for interesting humour . |
| 5 | Statistical packages will now perform a battery of sophisticated multivariate analyses that reduce unwieldy correlation matrices to a few succinct dimensions . |
| 6 | After a month feel safe to build-up to a few more fish . |
| 7 | I do n't remember ever being afraid , and I would boast of my nocturnal activities to a few close friends , who were duly impressed . |
| 8 | In contrast to the few pet names moving through the bynames stage to become established hereditary surnames , there are dozens of diminutives which successfully made the transition , and an example of the surnames coined from but one font-name is sufficient to make the point : from Richard ( Reaney , as above ) come almost thirty styles including Rich , Richie , Hitch , Hitchcock , Higgins , Hicks , Dick , Dickie and Diggen . |
| 9 | For lasers based on atomic transitions , this limits the available wavelengths to a few discrete lines , and even for molecular liquid dye lasers the practical tuning range for a given dye is limited to about 50 nm . |
| 10 | This would guarantee " the perfect security of all the principal statesmen in the House from the effects of local or individual prejudices or enmities … [ or ] some accidental offence to a few individual members of a constituency , or some petty and miserable pique " . |
| 11 | Essential meaning I introduce Gerry to a few friendly drinks . |
| 12 | This and other studies ( e.g. Cole and Fichtler 1983 , Stohlgren and Parsons 1986 ) have led to the conclusion that the most appropriate management strategy for such wilderness areas is to restrict camping to a few designated sites , where activity can be sustained without excessive damage . |
| 13 | That is not necessarily so in relation to the few surviving companies limited by guarantee and having a share capital.z And there is no inherent reason why it should be so with companies limited by shares ; indeed a very sensible method of promoting voluntary ‘ co-determination ’ would be to provide means whereby employees could become members without also having to buy shares in the company , thus risking the loss of their savings as well as their jobs if their employer-company becomes insolvent . |
| 14 | It was a terrible journey reducing the Masai nation to a few hundred survivors . |
| 15 | Thus it is pointed out that support for microelectronics has been biased towards the south of the country , and it is argued that emphasis on a division between sunrise and sunset , on finance at the expense of manufacturing , on entrepreneurship and new firms as opposed to restructuring existing industries , will all encourage the confinement of the fifth wave of economic growth to a few small areas of the country . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well-dressed older men now pay the higher fare to travel through Beijing by minibus , avoiding the slow , jammed and steamy buses on which the youngest and strongest men fight their way to a few rickety seats . |
| 18 | Armed with a basic knowledge of the major compositional schemes , the prospective collector or student should be able to recognize many of the more distinctive contemporary rugs and limit the less obvious ones to a few possible sources . |
| 19 | The coffee cups were all laid out on long white-napped tables , and waiters hovered over the silver urn , dispensing coffee to a few early arrivals . |
| 20 | The length of the repairs to be done with the flagstones will vary from several miles to a few hundred yards , and they will be laid with the help of local authorities , volunteers and environmental associations . |
| 21 | I have omitted , with reluctance , references to a few natural features of interest that have been subject to abuse of privilege by a minority of visitors . |
| 22 | It is no good operating a policy of laissez-faire , and leaving the task to the few hard-pressed London boroughs . |