Example sentences of "[be] [num] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even if the weather is passable , low level walks will take you to places you 'd perhaps never have tried if you 're one of the many walkers whose sights are normally set pretty firmly on the heights . |
| 2 | Yet they 're one of the few products not advertised on TV , probably because their appearance is far from viewer-friendly . |
| 3 | He will be fifty in a few years ’ time . |
| 4 | However , my parents are both happy , has grown up and is football mad , will be three in a few months , has just turned one and in seven months I will be leaving high school and have my whole future in front of me . |
| 5 | This was to be one of the many houses used by the Bishops of Rochester and a favourite residence of some during the next three centuries . |
| 6 | Letting go of our poverty consciousness will be one of the many delights of the New Age , and a crucial aspect of our spiritual growth . |
| 7 | ‘ You must be one of the few friends of Gamal that I do n't know . ’ |
| 8 | These Bible stories must be one of the few sources of information about dreaming made available during the course of our children 's education . |
| 9 | Jack was ready to bet all the crisp honeymoon pound notes he had in his pocket that Charlie would be one of the few quests not wearing a hired morning coat . |
| 10 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
| 11 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 12 | Britain , says Ash , must be one of the few countries where being ‘ too clever by half ’ is regarded as a stinging insult . |
| 13 | It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living . |
| 14 | ‘ I was totally wrong , it was immature , pure arrogance , ’ Souness confesses , in what must be one of the few confessions to take place inside Ibrox . |
| 15 | This would seem to be one of the few events that had any lasting emotional effect on him . |
| 16 | Not only will he be one of the few Democrats to win the presidency in the past 50 years but he will have humiliated an incumbent President in the process . |
| 17 | It will be one of the few practices that will be able to turn round and tell the FPC that it has got it wrong , claims its senior partner . |
| 18 | ‘ But they could be eighteen for a few moments . |
| 19 | Fire hoses are one of the many items of equipment manufactured by Fireater . |
| 20 | Right : stalagmites are one of the many treats in store for the downwardly mobile . |
| 21 | ‘ They are one of the few teams that have come here and attacked us and they did a good job , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Trolls are not the only monsters to be found there , but they are one of the few creatures able to thrive in this grim and hostile land . |
| 23 | 4ths are of particular value to guitarists as they are one of the few intervals that consistently sound good with a distorted sound ( try playing thirds with distortion , and you 'll see exactly what I mean ) . |
| 24 | They are one of the few reactors in the country which , if anything went wrong with the core in any way , could not be shut down . |
| 25 | We are one of the few companies in the pet food industry not to have seen a decline in sales during this period as wholesalers and retailers reduce stocks to compensate for the high interest rates . |
| 26 | Well good luck to you because er you know I can tell you right now we are one of the few companies that take on people in their fifties . |
| 27 | ‘ We are one of the few clubs that could maintain a big staff and keep everybody happy . |
| 28 | Machine-tools are one of the few industries in east Germany that come close to matching world standards , and Niles Werkzeugmaschinen , based in the district of Weissensee , was the core enterprise of the defunct 7 Oktober engineering combine . |
| 29 | Because potatoes do not absorb radioactive nucleotides , they are one of the few crops that could be grown safely in the heavily contaminated soils around Chernobyl . |
| 30 | When all else fails , disciplinary procedures instigated properly and fairly are one of the few protections the public has . |