Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | North sat down beside him and whispered , ‘ Max has shut down the resupply of the pilots . ’ |
| 2 | Already weak and exposed where Midnight was concerned , this unexpected consideration broke down the last of the barriers Jess had constructed against the old woman . |
| 3 | So the next of the packages to wander through rejoices in the title Fun Pack — it 's obviously not a word processor , but it may just interest you a little . |
| 4 | Occasionally he was referred to by those who saw him at services as ‘ the old canon ’ though he was much the youngest of the canons . |
| 5 | Corbett stopped his horse to watch some labourers in the fields below working to bring in the last of the crops . |
| 6 | His flailing tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them on the earth . |
| 7 | Because the cell was designed for only half-a-dozen prisoners , perhaps a hundred of the captives died in the night , and in later decades all Englishmen in India remembered the Black Hole of Calcutta as a dreadful atrocity . |
| 8 | These are only a few of the choices before them , but even these are very difficult to prioritize and at times some of them must be sacrificed at the expense of others in this play . |
| 9 | Although only a few of the sources of political controversy of the time have been touched upon , enough has been said to demonstrate that people could not be immune from the implications of political decisions taken at Westminster or St James 's . |
| 10 | This book has discussed only a few of the innovations we shall have to assess in the next five years or so . |
| 11 | Only a few of the particles fed into the SPS actually collide ; the remainder just fly past each other . |
| 12 | This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) . |
| 13 | Only a few of the errors are of the same kind as spelling or typing errors . |
| 14 | Again , as one member of staff said , ‘ only a few of the girls complain in any one class ’ . |
| 15 | This section covers only a few of the documents published over the past hundred years on the geology of the Channel bed , including a few relating to the 1970s project which seems particularly relevant today . |
| 16 | Only a few of the surveys of homeless mentally ill people have inquired about any history of psychiatric treatment . |
| 17 | And that 's only a few of the things that 'll be making their Megatape debuts on the front cover of COMMODORE FORCE ! |
| 18 | Only a few of the diplodocuses survived . |
| 19 | Small parties seem to serve their members better when food patches are found for in larger units only a few of the animals present could then be fed ( Dunbar 1977 ) . |
| 20 | Over the years ‘ Mods and Rockers ’ , ‘ Hell 's Angels ’ , ‘ Skinheads ’ , ‘ Rude Boys ’ , ‘ Romantics ’ , ‘ Neo-Romantics ’ and ‘ Punks ’ were only a few of the pieces in an ever-changing cultural jig-saw . |
| 21 | These were only a few of the paradoxes of Baldwin 's life and character . |
| 22 | Only a few of the rabbits remained above ground . |
| 23 | Job costing , fee assessment , cash-flow forecasting and staff motivation are only a few of the requirements of a successful practice manager . |
| 24 | A limitation of our study is that we had baseline data on smoking for only a few of the subjects and could not completely control for the potentially confounding effects of cigarette smoking . |
| 25 | Although all departments were represented , only a third of the members were departmental heads . |
| 26 | The activities of the chains , however , meant that only a third of the mornings still published in 1988 were in the same ownership as in 1945 . |
| 27 | Yet this modest advance in steam conditions was approached late and with circumspection : the sets on order for the whole of the 1950s commissioning programmes remained mainly the 30MW and 60MW sizes , and only a third of the sets adopted the more advanced steam conditions . |
| 28 | As it is , only a third of the pups will survive to become one year olds and females are only mature sexually after five years with the males usually holding territories after ten years . |
| 29 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
| 30 | Meryl handed over the last of the spoils , a nail file and some kind of newspaper cutting , then settled in her seat to give her full attention to the lecture . |