Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing was to push me at once to the front ; and almost immediately , after a very few brief words from the distinguished chairman , I found myself face to face with an audience that evidently meant mischief . |
| 2 | It shows something of the best that human beings are capable of , and hints too of their tragic failure to grasp that best and hold on to it . |
| 3 | Most of the experiments on this topic have , however , been conducted with human subjects and I shall begin by reviewing this work before turning to an analysis of the relatively few further studies that have used animal subject to pursue the phenomenon revealed by Lawrence . |
| 4 | The condition of the people of Hartfield , Hawksborough and Shoyswell hundreds differed from that of the rest of the region only in so far as the usual string of £1 assessments was balanced in each of them by one of the very few three-figure ones ( see Table 2.17 ) . |
| 5 | I know that sounds obvious but even nine years after I designed it , I still have one of the very few adjustable-height lecterns in the UK . |
| 6 | In one of the very few official references to population control at the conference , the Declaration called on states to " promote appropriate demographic policies " . |
| 7 | Why he was dragged out in 1558 and transformed from an obscure apostate into one of the very few great martyrs of the Scottish Reformation , remains a mystery . |
| 8 | Still , the busy street is home to one of the very few city-centre supermarkets ( a grand title for a relatively small shop , but it does capture the flavour ) . |
| 9 | Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 10 | Thus an anti-communist accord was preserved in the face of one of the very few political disagreements to intrude on the fun at drinks ' time . |
| 11 | Portadown is one of the very few Irish Circuits in which an adequate provision is made for the sustentation of Ministers on the spot . ’ |
| 12 | Steve Meyers claimed one of the very few good problems left at Tremadog when he found a way through the steep ground right of Erebus , providing No Holds Barred E6 6c . |
| 13 | Durham is one of the very few ecclesiastical buildings in England to retain its original clerestory windows ( as can be seen in Fig. 294 of the exterior ) . |
| 14 | Patsy remains one of the very few sexual renegades who have dared to wear women 's clothes in front of their teammates . |
| 15 | The family of Mortimer of Chirk were one of the very few permanent victims of the political upheavals between 1322 and 1330 : they abandoned the attempt to recover Chirk , and settled in Rent . |
| 16 | The party disintegrated and with it went one of the very few sensible perspectives on the Free City 's position . |
| 17 | He was said to become of the very few senior officials who ever dared to question , if not contradict the Shah . |
| 18 | L'Appel is one of the very few Protestant magazines in French-speaking Africa , and there are plans to make it monthly . |
| 19 | The peak can be climbed as part of Kungsleden , the King 's Route , an excellent if over-populated route and one of the very few waymarked trails in the Arctic . |
| 20 | Judging from the photograph , Joseph Noel Paton 's Crimean War weepie ‘ Home ’ is one of the very few narrative pictures which might be up to the standard of this ideal exhibition . |
| 21 | The calf-bearer is one of the comparatively few male figures dedicated on the Acropolis . |
| 22 | In fact , the losses of the comparatively few German battalions engaged in this small corner of the Verdun front that day alone exceeded 2,400 , little less than the total British casualties on D-Day in 1944 . |
| 23 | There are many fine performances of Sibelius No. 1 on the market , but it seems to me that two really stand out : the recently re-issued VPO/Maazel on the Decca ( part of a desirably all seven symphonies on ) , and the EMI BPO/Karajan ( also mid-price the Karelia Suite on ) . |
| 24 | Rostov was one of a very few special exceptions to the Imperial edict which excluded commoners from access to the bi-annual treatment which was necessary for administration of the drug , but he saw no reason to apprise the Adjudicator of the fact . |
| 25 | This year 's PFAS Child of Valour award went to Wendy Windsmoor , aged nine , who stood for no less that 17 minutes , reserving a vacant meter spot in Oxford while her father negotiated the one-way system . |
| 26 | Together with a very few other insects , they have developed an immunity to the poison . |
| 27 | I will bore you with no more such little scenes . |
| 28 | 6000 , not of a male population in 431 of about 40,000 , could he accommodated on the Pnyx , the open-air meeting-place , and that total was regularly reached in the fourth century , as we know from the very many attested grants of citizenship , for which a quorum of 6000 was required . |
| 29 | The Rural Areas Database brings together from the very many existing sources , data which relate to the changing countryside . |
| 30 | For the purposes of the present paper the general position of the boundaries has been deduced from the linear arrangement of well known surface structures , some of which are recognisable on satellite images , and guided by the pattern of published gravity and aeromagnetic maps , also taking into account the age and character of the pre-Permian rocks penetrated in the relatively few deep boreholes from which data are publicly available . |