Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 32 | Some tests were also made with the few boxes of plants available at this time . |
| 33 | This section first compares prevalence in Wirral with the few studies of rates of opioid use in other parts of the UK , and then turns to an examination of the characteristics of opioid users in different areas . |
| 34 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |
| 35 | Professional fees may be shared and partnerships entered into with the same categories of persons as under Solicitors ' Practice Rule 7 ( see above ) and also with a lawyer qualified in another jurisdiction . |
| 36 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 37 | You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’ |
| 38 | I would get a stocking with a few bits of things in when I was young and Grandma used to make a big cake with white icing , but that would be when Daddy was alive . |
| 39 | Modern brick and concrete duplexes squatted here and there along the road , each with a few rows of vines trained along wires suspended from concrete posts behind them . |
| 40 | Occasionally Ella took the train to town with a portfolio of hand-blocked patterns , and usually she returned , blown but jubilant , with a few orders from firms who appreciated her strong shades of olive green , dull beetroot and dirty yellow madly ensnared in black mesh . |
| 41 | I FIRST came across Theatre de Complicite seven years ago in a show called More Bigger Snacks Now , which featured a definitive demonstration of just how much mess it is possible to make with a few packets of crisps and a couple of cans of Coke . |
| 42 | A shaded patio overlooks the garden , well planted with colourful racks of equipment and sails , and the garden leads straight onto the beach , mainly sand with a few patches of pebbles . |
| 43 | The saltire mosaic from Ashcroft Houses , Cirencester , also suggests some affinity with the geometric decoration of mosaics at Woodchester and Withington ( see above ) , and yet , set against such comparisons , is the complete absence from the latter sites of arrangements of interlaced squares or saltires . |
| 44 | Sir Colin , especially , was responsible for realising that airlines are a service business in which competitors use similar equipment and fly to and from the same places with costs that can be much the same . |
| 45 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 46 | In the many pockets of expatriates living around the Mediterranean coastline , with its constant inflow of foreign exchange , the governments and entrepreneurs of those countries have developed mini-townships of inexpensive residences , varying from traditionally constructed apartments to sophisticated semi-huts in specially landscaped settings . |
| 47 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 48 | The South American and the African weakly electric fish are quite unrelated to each other , but both live in the same kinds of waters in their respective continents , waters that are too muddy for vision to be effective . |
| 49 | The missiles would blast out of their launchers , navigate automatically across Europe , and land within a few metres of targets such as airfields , ports , power stations , dams and locks . |
| 50 | Within a few minutes of galactosides being added to the medium , the genes are switched on , and enzymes appear . |
| 51 | They insisted that neither loyalists nor republicans would have left 200 lb of explosive within a few feet of men and women working contentedly in the bakery kitchen and suggested that it was more like the work of outside agents , acting under strict and impersonal orders . |
| 52 | In short the pictures in an art museum have been closely monitored , often through decades and in a few cases for centuries , so full descriptions that appear in the catalogues have a thorough-paced authority . |
| 53 | In the villages without supplies water for all domestic purposes is fetched from springs , from wells and in a few cases from streams . |
| 54 | It is not known why this occurs in a few animals after strangles infection . |
| 55 | Users of private WANs have been able to send both voice and data over the same lines for years . |
| 56 | His podgy , clean-nailed fingers locked together and formed a vaulted shrine over the few pages of notes that contained my Mother 's life . |
| 57 | Similarly , there are thousands of fish varieties , all subject to the same laws of hydrodynamics . |
| 58 | They were not , however , the same : different continents were inhabited by different species adapted to the same sets of conditions . |
| 59 | Could Belfast be said in this sense to be a single speech community separate from Lurgan ? or do Lurgan speakers show sensitivity to the same sets of variables ? |
| 60 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |