Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 2 | You do n't have to be a historian to know a pretty flower when you see one , and although this is not intended to be a text book — there is more than enough literature available to fulfil that function — I do suggest that your enjoyment of roses can be enhanced by knowing just a little about the many different kinds , and such matters as why they are cultivated in certain ways , why they are pruned , and so on — and to see a strange word , and know what it means ! |
| 3 | Afterwards the whole group stayed on for a few extra days . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , actually , this is such a beautiful place , I was thinking of maybe staying on for a few extra days , ’ she invented hastily , knowing her mother would worry herself silly if she knew the half of it — let alone that her car had packed up . |
| 5 | So , the tree which from which bows used in the Battle of Agincourt could have been fashioned seems set to live on for a few more generations yet . |
| 6 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 7 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 8 | The Steady State Theory floundered on for a few more years , being continually revised , but eventually its three proponents conceded defeat . |
| 9 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |
| 10 | I can go on for a few more days . |
| 11 | The weather was still warm and sunny , though , an Indian summer that looked like stretching on for a few more days yet . |
| 12 | Devon and Cornwall 's canals connected agricultural areas with the goods they needed which came in through the many small ports . |
| 13 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
| 14 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
| 15 | Roman Catholicism has been more in line with the other great world religions in insisting that mysticism is only for a few chosen souls and that , unless one has this special propensity , mysticism can be a serious health threat . |
| 16 | But officials insist that Poland 's national telephone company , PTTP , will be protected only for a few more years and will then be left to go bankrupt if it can not compete against privately owned network operators . |
| 17 | In fact , even the Japanese language version of these is worth a look , if only for the few English words that remain obstinately untranslatable and stick out glaringly among the elegant Japanese characters . |
| 18 | The Director paused and watched the scene below for a few thoughtful seconds , as a squad of house servants bagged and carried out the human remains , and began stripping off the blood-soaked canvas cover from the padded squares underneath , removing it for cleaning . |
| 19 | ‘ We are both talking nonsense , let us continue to do so for a few more minutes . |
| 20 | ‘ So for the same weekly payments any council tenant can start along the road to ownership . |
| 21 | Caird also goes in for a few unnecessary stunts , such as having two of the ladies of the town played by men in drag . |
| 22 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 23 | This is a very important benefit , especially for the many single women in their fifties who are sacrificing their career to look after an elderly parent . |
| 24 | In my book , there is nothing this ex-president has done , or said , since leaving the White House which is worthy of attention — especially considering the many worthy things ex-presidents can do and say . |
| 25 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 26 | So the criticisms levelled against citation analysis as guide to value in science distil down into a few fragmentary points that any sensible funding body would be more than capable of bearing in mind . |
| 27 | This is a standard way to implement word processing : the ‘ pool ’ breaks secretarial work down into a few routine activities like typing , making travel reservations and answering the phone . |
| 28 | When Alain 's mother finally went inside with a few rueful shakes of her head and a pleased look on her face , Jenna decided to risk all . |
| 29 | As David Shulman , equity strategist at Salomon Brothers , was the first to point out , the danger for investors these days lies less with the few hot shares whose rise he misses than with the many dubious ones already in his portfolio . |
| 30 | White immigrants from the Irish republic , EEC countries and even from Rhodesia come in with no such bureaucratic barriers . |