Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The desire to travel — especially among the young and the well-educated — depends not only on the existence of a few Great Sights , but also on scenic variety , a sense that a particular place is different and , above all , old . |
| 32 | This could be replicated , at least superficially , by boiling in a concentrated caustic soda solution to give a white patination ; the addition of a few rusty nails would then turn the patina brown . |
| 33 | The top picture was composed of agrimony leaves and alchemilla flowers , with the addition of a few pink larkspur and red hawthorn flowers . |
| 34 | At the instigation of the Greenock Deaf and Dumb Christian Society , the authorities in Greenock , Scotland , approved the use of a room in Greenock Academy ( opened 1855 ) for the teaching of the few deaf children in the town . |
| 35 | In the course of a few hundred words the following occur : catalles = chattels , Chrystean = Christian , peax = peace , freyle = freely , delyved = delivered , auctorytye = authority , mad = made , borow = borough , rome = room , jarretier = garter , and playnle = plainly . |
| 36 | It has been an astonishing transformation in opinions and attitudes , within the course of a few short weeks . |
| 37 | They begged Rytasha for reimbursement , but none was forthcoming , and for the want of a few hundred pounds the village lost its crop for the year . |
| 38 | In the presence of a few hundred Masai , the young warrior hurled his spear right through the district officer 's heart . |
| 39 | Her parents travelled home in the first week of October leaving her with fields enriched by the presence of a few dozen sheep and enough advice to see her through the cow 's first calving and the sow 's first litter . |
| 40 | On the other hand , except for eurodollars , most currency sectors were the preserve of a few domestic institutions owing to regulatory barriers and cartels . |
| 41 | Whilst public protest and scientific concern have concentrated on the dangers of the industry 's radioactive threat , and others have challenged the strategic arguments , the economics have remained the preserve of a few academic critics who have been prepared to tussle with the limited information available . |
| 42 | Hence Sharon and partner Martin can only get to be with their pedigree chum for a few precious hours on Sunday mornings at kennels in Wickford . |
| 43 | ‘ Dear Batty , I needed money for booze so all I did was rip off a few thousand cup final tickets supposed to be for our lot and flog 'em to some scum supporters . |
| 44 | a little more wait and I was back on the bed of the big machine for a few parting shots . |
| 45 | She had , apparently , spent little of the money on herself , had been a dependable benefactress of the few eccentric charities of which she approved , had remembered them in her will , but without egregious generosity , and had left the residue of her estate to him without explanation , admonition or peculiar protestations of affection , although he had no doubt that the words ‘ my dearly beloved nephew ’ meant exactly what they said . |
| 46 | The work of a few farsighted publishers and booksellers was responsible for the formulation of an agreement to protect book prices . |
| 47 | Is all this enthusiasm just the work of a few ardent Shavians , exhuming the corpse for further public titillation ? |
| 48 | But despite the success each battle is a David and Goliath affair and success depends upon the work of a few dedicated people . |
| 49 | And the tutor 's impressions of one student are unlikely to remain vivid after he/she has looked at the work of a few more students . |
| 50 | The dealers and auction houses are on the other side , saying that any national droit de suite in the United States would create a huge administrative morass for the benefit of a few already-wealthy artists that would help drive the US art market overseas or underground . |
| 51 | The great majority of revolutionary populists resolutely rejected the deception and unprincipled adventurism of a few untypical deviants like Nechaev . |
| 52 | It further characterized the Campaign as being the personal machine of a few wealthy men , particularly of Strauss , Strachey , Cripps and Gollancz . |
| 53 | He , more than any other ornithologist , knew what to look for and would be able , with the help of a few hand-picked collectors , to assemble a substantial collection in a fraction of the time it would take should he stay home and await specimens sent by less reliable amateurs . |
| 54 | After years of getting by under its previous labels of the Liberals and the Alliance with just the voluntary help of a few advertising professionals ( including Mead 's partner David Abbott ) , the party has decided that such an approach is too risky . |
| 55 | With the help of a few sure-fire successes brought over from ITV , it gradually established itself , though still subsidized by the sub-scriptions . |
| 56 | But the spectacle of a few Labour MPs begging for Nationalist arms to link with , on the grounds that ‘ we 're all on the same side , really ’ gives a degree of credibility to the Tory scare-story that it previously lacked . |
| 57 | European nations ' telecoms continued to depend on a consensual grouping of a few powerful interests . |
| 58 | All this fuss over the hunting of a few small cubes of mycoprotein |
| 59 | If I chose not to reap the benefits of this scheme then I might consider the fate of a few ungrateful citizens who had thought likewise and then seen their homes repossessed , had been inflicted with uncanny storms that ripped tiles from roof and threw chimney stacks into the street , had undergone torment at the hands of timeshare salespeople , had been billed for new and exorbitant taxes and had been struck off their doctors ' registers . |
| 60 | Hence Jacobitism , the belief that James II and his heirs were the rightful rulers of Scotland ( and possibly England as well ) took far deeper root in Scotland than England , where it soon became the mere dream of a few impractical romantics . |