Example sentences of "[noun] with [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you know someone who has just passed a very difficult music exam , for instance , you could celebrate their victory by decorating some of their exam piece with a few pressed flowers before framing it and giving it . |
| 2 | Their approach was to run a business similar to a small City firm of solicitors , maintaining close relationships with a few senior people for whom they would provide a personal service and gain good repeat business . |
| 3 | It provides outside parties with a few limited details on the borrower , loan size , term , currency , syndicate leader and participating banks ( see specimen tombstone at the end of this chapter ) . |
| 4 | Hitherto such emphasis and recognition have not been current , nor , I believe , has there been sufficiently widespread recognition of the need to spread the information we have to those who should use it — it may therefore be appropriate to end this chapter with a few rude questions . |
| 5 | Tank decor has come a long way in recent years from the garish backdrop , and the odd lump of rock with a few dying plants . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you want to be found washed up on the seashore with a few vital bits missing ? |
| 7 | What it was was a dirty patch of fenced-off sand with a few straggly trees and occasional tufts of scrawny grass . |
| 8 | This gives an image far removed from those bleak , concrete areas with a few hard benches and overflowing litter bins that they will hopefully replace . |
| 9 | It had been a wet May with a few scarce hours of sunshine at the beginning of the month and little since , but today the grey skies that had hung over the land like a shroud had broken , and high white clumps of cloud were bowling swiftly across the blue sky betokening a day of good weather . |
| 10 | One minute Jesus is a sort of cross between Batman and Captain America , next thing he is ‘ just a bloke with a few special powers ’ , and before you know it he is a deranged Jew with a no more than ordinary claim on our imaginations . |
| 11 | ‘ He wrecked your act with a few well-chosen words that would have slid straight off your back if anyone else had said them . |
| 12 | In the centre would be several lines of trestle tables carrying cages for chicken , ducks and geese with a few tame rabbits . |
| 13 | The ghost plot — Swayze gets killed , and before he can go off to heaven he has to save his girlfriend Demi Moore from the bad guys — is really just a gimmick , there to dress up the standard Swayze package with a few special effects and an impossibly sentimental ending . |
| 14 | Bass will figure from the point with a few double-figure fish . |
| 15 | Mr Rushdie , who recently declared on television that he was no longer prepared to remain shut away from the world , spent the evening with a few favoured friends . |
| 16 | Instead of the cafe or the restaurant that he 'd expected , he found a narrow shop with a few uncontroversial-looking videos in the window display and a more extensive and X-rated stock of tapes and magazines inside . |
| 17 | He just sat for a while in a sort of communal TV room with a few old loons . |
| 18 | In cases around the room lie the collected fragmentary treasures of human ancestry , mostly skulls , jaws and teeth with a few partial limb bones . |
| 19 | A sketch with a few rough dimensions may be enough for a man to trim some timber into a frame for a house . |
| 20 | He told Arts Scene : ‘ I do my waffle with a few little inserts from tapes . ’ |
| 21 | He jerked his poncho up , felt about in the pocket of his filthy jeans and produced a screwed-up bit of paper which he handed to Ward with a few muttered words . |
| 22 | The bones consist of lagomorph remains for the most part with a few small lizards and rodents . |
| 23 | On several occasions the obituarists have been poised , ready to send the man to his grave with a few solemn words of recognition . |
| 24 | We are doing well with dog-fighting in spite of its illegality , and we are making progress with a few speculative lines such as cave diving , simulated extreme skiing and Russian roulette . |
| 25 | Composed by a 17-year-old , the work was underplayed at times with a few unfortunate slips from the horns adding to a certain lack of direction . |
| 26 | SO TOUCHING : Making an elderly woman 's day with a few kind words |
| 27 | Even the local reporter had to kick his heels at the lich-gate with the few inquisitive neighbours who had gathered . |
| 28 | A quick photo ( well it was very pretty even if it was small ) and back into the water with a few quick words something to the effect of ’ go send me your grand-daddy ’ . |
| 29 | The courtyard in front of the council buildings is the ideal location for a grassy square with a few attractive flowerbeds but instead there is a bleak expanse of concrete . |
| 30 | Within fifty years West Ham was transformed from an essentially agricultural economy with a few nucleated settlements to the industrial heartland of south-east England . |