Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [det] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling depressed one day he decided to explore a few of the corridors in Nightside and plant his packet of seeds to remind him of home . |
| 2 | Just to highli I 'd just like to highlight a few of the principles before I comment on this dishonesty of this Government in , on the one hand enacting a major piece of legislation and on the other hand doing it in such a way that Councils 'll settle for failure because resources have not been allocated . |
| 3 | Somebody who wo n't hesitate to shoot a few of the troublemakers as a warning to the rest . |
| 4 | And the writer has to keep conjuring the feeling in him or herself , to keep it there , if he/she is to hope to do the same for the readers . |
| 5 | She was about to do the same with the contents of another file when something made her pause , hair prickling at the back of her head . |
| 6 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |
| 7 | The physical properties of objects revealed in the natural sciences may well have an important bearing upon discussions of the technological constraints on manufacture and utility , but these studies do not differentiate , as a prime dichotomy , between the artefact and the natural substance , and indeed are largely concerned to reduce the former to the properties of the latter . |
| 8 | In order to appreciate this strong feminist stance that is being taken it is necessary to understand a few of the problems of women in the Developing World . |
| 9 | As a consequence , it has only been possible to describe a few of the phenomena which have been observed . |
| 10 | The trials of Bulgaria 's former dictator or a handful of Ceausescu 's secret police serve to scapegoat a few of the ringleaders and put the issue to rest . |
| 11 | Is there any chance you could run a page or so every now and then to explain a few of the terms that crop up in the reviews ? |
| 12 | In this chapter , we intend briefly to survey some of the cultural and technological correlates of a society 's attitudes towards child upbringing generally ; and , more specifically , to examine a few of the ways in which the individual methods which parents adopt in the handling of their small children are defined or modified by the intricate pattern of cultural pressures to which they find themselves subject . |
| 13 | Most of them were designed to make the most of the limitations of a character-based environment ; their procedures just do n't port easily into the Windows way of working . |
| 14 | Within the overall pattern we must look very carefully for the local variations , realize the implications of both soil and climate , and plan our holding to make the most of the resources . |
| 15 | Let us examine what lessons have been learned about RMI from existing sites and also what are the emerging issues that the service will need to tackle to make the most of the opportunities offered by RMI . |
| 16 | We have in place a framework that will ensure that this country is uniquely advantaged to make the most of the opportunities that will become available in the 1990s . |
| 17 | We reject the compulsory route that is favoured by the Labour party , which will never understand that the way forward is to motivate and to encourage and to give people the incentives that they need to make the most of the opportunities that are available to them , not simply to rely on the dead hand of compulsion . |
| 18 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |