Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our brains are probably equipped by nature to assess the risks of things happening to ourselves , or to a few hundred people in the small circle of villages within drum-range that our tribal ancestors could expect to hear news about . |
| 2 | What they all have in common is a basic commitment that the vines should have been cultivated without the use of chemical fertilisers , pesticides , fungicides or herbicides ( except for a few age-old things like Bordeaux mixture ) , and the wine made without chemical additives or agents — apart from a few natural and/or traditional substances . |
| 3 | The Articles were registered in 1953 under the CA 1948 , and except for a few standard exclusions , largely adopt Table A , in force at that time . |
| 4 | Bowing to the inevitable , Kenya started to remove the controls in 1988 and had eliminated them all by 1990 , except for a few agricultural products like maize . |
| 5 | Most woodland is now found west of the River Arun , the downs further east being notably lacking in tree cover except for a few extensive forestry plantations , which now form a high proportion of all downland woodland . |
| 6 | In the heat of the midday sun we reached Ingleborough 's companion top of Simon Fell , deserted except for a few inquisitive Swaledale sheep . |
| 7 | Small , rather tame and confiding aquatic waders , much the smallest birds likely to be seen swimming , except for a few all-dark petrels . |
| 8 | I fancied that except for a few corrugated iron roofs it still looked the same as when he had been here . |
| 9 | I wandered round the spectacular mall , deserted except for a few armed security guards , paint-smart in peaked hats and short-sleeved shirts . |
| 10 | Except for a few stereotyped responses from the wilder churches — Pastor David Powell of the Rotherham Pentecostal Church actually banned gays from his services — and a few jibes from the local National Front , we were always treated politely , listened to with interest and generally well received . |
| 11 | But the usual squashing and stretching still applies to most projection prints , except for a few large cinemas in major cities which are able to afford the expensive 70mm projectors . |
| 12 | These islands are uninhabited , except for a few wild goats , rabbits and birds . |
| 13 | For the Balinese the ocean has always been the underworld , and source of their demons ; except for a few intrepid fishermen , they used to approach it only to scatter the cremated ashes of their dead . |
| 14 | While the French , probably for nationalist reasons , stuck to their own style — with a consequent isolation of French natural science ( though not of French mathematics ) — except for a few celebrated individuals , the Germans did not . |
| 15 | But , except for a few dedicated monarchists , Central Europeans are not dreaming of a restored Habsburg dynasty . |
| 16 | Except for a few specialised publications such as The Art Newspaper , only a handful of quality papers regularly deal with issues concerning the art trade : the International Herald Tribune ; the German Handelsblatt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; and in the United States , the New York Times . |
| 17 | Once assured of their willingness to adopt the patriot cause the ‘ people ’ turned to their natural , local leaders and disappeared from the stage except for a few significant reappearances and a few protests against ‘ the rich ’ . |
| 18 | It 's trying to forget it , and trying to turn it into a more reassuring manifest content , so it starts to dream about it , but the latent thoughts are so disturbing it never succeeds and consequently the whole dream work , this process of disguising the latent content , just does n't get anywhere at all , except for a few minor details . |
| 19 | Therefore , to whom belongs the credit for this near miraculous escape from falling victim yet again to socialist ideology and dogma , which is in decline and disrepute everywhere , except for a few Third World countries ? |
| 20 | It is certainly true that for a few crucial generations in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the influence of Spanish Jesuits on the never-very-alert minds of the Habsburg emperors was decisive . |
| 21 | So , except during a few warm days in summer , a white coat would seem to put its wearer at a disadvantage . |
| 22 | ( In fact , Curtis Bernhardt , the director of A Stolen Life , claims that both characters were not only on-screen simultaneously but passed each other and interacted without the use of a double , except in a few over-the-shoulder shots ; unfortunately he had forgotten when interviewed how this was done . |
| 23 | Add to these statistics that translations have now appeared in some 850 languages and it will be apparent that , except in a few notable cases , rarity is not often a factor to be reckoned with . |
| 24 | Except in a few isolated instances , there has been little systematic planning in relation to most countries ' social welfare personnel training needs and resources and there has been very limited involvement in find some countries and schools of social work that have adopted a comprehensive approach to social service personnel training and development and are directing their efforts toward maximizing the contribution of all available human resources to their country 's or region 's social development goals . |
| 25 | Gowon behaved in a fashion which should attract historic credit in that his amnesty was a genuine amnesty ; no retribution , except in a few isolated instances , was inflicted on the Ibos in consequence of the war . |
| 26 | The beneficiaries are not small farmers except in a few isolated cases where costs and benefits are seen to be equally shared ( e.g. in Sukhomaj Village which is discussed in the CSE report , p. 14 ) . |
| 27 | In 1974 , Lubans observed that ‘ instructional programmes in all types of libraries have been infrequently evaluated , their need and effect have not been measured except in a few isolated cases ’ . |
| 28 | Collection of a few of the mostly common species for the home aquaria is unlikely to diminish the local fauna , except in a few special areas , which need to be respected . |
| 29 | The immediate result is that alongside a few major clerics such as Runcie and Jenkins , we find that Stalker , Sampson , Anderton , Alderson , Newman , Imbert , Dear , Oxford , and Hermon are national personalities , while a second division of chief officers regularly proclaim on a range of subjects which at other times would lie outside the province of the police . |
| 30 | The foliage in the park was turning to burnished gold and Rachel knew that in a few short weeks the temperature would drop , the leaves would fall and once again her favourite time of year would be over . |