Example sentences of "[verb] in [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Im happy for us to stick with the present team ( when DOL fit ) , unless we start to make obvious cock ups in one postition. the team looks balanced and functional as it is … just need the forwards to start knocking in a few more goals … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With hindsight , it would have better still to lock in a few more gains . |
| 5 | Because they they 've condensed it and just put in a few little bits and pieces ! |
| 6 | The range of possibilities for the pace and form of change can be seen in a few specific industries in each of the three sectors : national resource processing , manufacturing and services . |
| 7 | Due to the pilot nature of the scheme it is only operating in a few selected areas initially , which is why your parish has not been contacted . |
| 8 | It left the world unchanged save in a few interesting particulars . |
| 9 | A company which does not allow a woman to return to work after maternity leave is regarded ( save in a few exceptional circumstances described in the small print of the legislation ) as having dismissed her . |
| 10 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 11 | Produced by TVS , Men of Science is now being shown in a few other areas for those not already suffering exophthalmos after an evening of Rising Damp , Cuffy , The Avengers and Pro-Celebrity Golf |
| 12 | It has already been used in a few clinical trials in normal volunteers and diabetics . |
| 13 | The reluctance to invest in a few good demonstration videos may stem not only from the fact that there are indeed some very poor , amateurish productions around , but also , compared with most books , videos are still comparatively expensive . |
| 14 | or if we 're stuck get our heads together and drag in a few extra bodies |
| 15 | Among primates , especially close collaboration between parents has developed in a few forest-dwelling animals as diverse as gibbons on the one hand and the tiny marmosets on the other . |
| 16 | The area surrounding Monboddo must have contained an aerodrome at some stage , perhaps during wartime , as evidenced in a few remaining Nissen huts , now filled with old packing cases and pallets , and undistinguished , domestic timber artefacts of all sorts . |
| 17 | The major industrial developments were heavily concentrated in a few key areas of the Empire . |
| 18 | Moreover , large-scale manufacture tended to be concentrated in a few industrial areas , of which St Petersburg , Moscow , and the major cities of Poland , the Ukraine and the South were the most significant , and the plants themselves tended to be markedly larger than in the West . |
| 19 | In the same year 20 per cent of the population was concentrated in a few metropolitan areas each with a population of over half a million . |
| 20 | Germany 's coal reserves were huge and were concentrated in a few large fields . |
| 21 | Women 's employment has always been , and remains , concentrated in a few occupational categories ( see Hakim , 1979 : Joseph , 1983 ) . |
| 22 | Containers are strongly associated with male-rich graves , while perforated spoons found in a few female graves may have been used as strainers in connection with the serving of drink . |
| 23 | ‘ The only difference between the lineouts this year and last is that you can get penalised in a few more areas . |
| 24 | She took in a few deep breaths , like a singer preparing for a song . |
| 25 | She wandered through to the study and whiled away ten minutes putting in the few remaining border pieces . |
| 26 | Busacher put in a few whirly violin runs on the piano and crescendoed unnecessarily loudly , paused too long , gasped , she joined him , and together they sailed into the finale and burst out laughing . |
| 27 | We obviously put in a few more details … |
| 28 | He then appeared in a few Austrian films before fleeing from the Nazis in the late 1930s . |
| 29 | All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century , shortly before Richard 's birth . |
| 30 | Personal handwritten invitations by the class involved to their own parents will pull in a few more adults . |