Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bizarrely , it 's a pork butcher 's shop , and there 's more to this business than a bacon slicer and a few trays of pies . |
| 2 | All are small islets only a few thousand square metres in extent , which support a few Shetland sheep , a sizable common seal population and a few birds . |
| 3 | Green water can actually be beneficial to your pond fish and a few weeks in a thick green soup can improve your fish 's vitality and colour — but if you ca n't see the fish , there 's not a lot of point in keeping them . |
| 4 | A secretary showed me into an ornately furnished drawing room and a few minutes later Sir George came in . |
| 5 | Time was that decor in a tank consisted of a backdrop , a gravel substrate and a few bits of rock from the back garden that you hoped were inert and would n't affect water chemistry . |
| 6 | In the first of the examples given , so long as the profits of the business are remitted to be dealt with under the English partnership agreement and the same persons are partners of the English firm and of its overseas branch , the branch office practice will be covered by the Indemnity Fund . |
| 7 | Thus creating a succulently flavoured ham that goes perfectly with a watercress and avocado salad and a few slices of brown bread . |
| 8 | Hugh would get up purposefully and drive into Mondano , returning with a large number of bread rolls and a few croissants over which the children quarrelled . |
| 9 | PC Dave Fishwick , of Darlington Community Liaison department , said residents should then send police a letter with details of their name , address and telephone number and the same details of anyone else who has a key to the house . |
| 10 | However , none of them is likely to affect those workers who fall outside of collective agreements ; the contract workers and the many women who work for small manufacturing or service sector employers . |
| 11 | There were the same satisfactions of seeing a job well-finished and the same frustrations when the machines refused to function . |
| 12 | Ellis has sent us some veal and ham pie and a few half-bottles of champagne : I must keep playing on his guilt . |
| 13 | Nestlé Foodservice awards the significant prize of £5000 worth of catering equipment to the winning college and the individuals in the winning team are each presented with a £300 cheque at a special presentation ceremony and an all expenses paid study trip to Switzerland . |
| 14 | Here Blake left them , identified himself to the surprised border guards and a few days later was flown to Mosow for a triumphant reunion with the KGB . |
| 15 | Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park … |
| 16 | There would band together to play a charity match and a few days afterwards attend the wedding of John Kirwan to a young lady of Treviso . |
| 17 | He looked through the xerox sheets that had been pressed between them but there was nothing too controversial there , just a Jenner Clinic catalogue and price schedule and a few dates and details . |
| 18 | In which case there would be no capital for him to start up again other than Tommy 's back pay and a few pounds he 'd managed to save himself . |
| 19 | No more worries about making gravy , no more worries about the cholesterol levels and no more worries about spillages . |
| 20 | Now the Lindsays have turned their attention to two major Dovřák Quartets and the same qualities shine through . |
| 21 | Good winter crocuses include the gorgeous beige and blue Crocus imperatii and the many forms of C. chrysanthus . |
| 22 | A writer can do wonders with a word processor and a few guidebooks . |
| 23 | Bivins listened to their music in his dressing room and a few months later signed them up . |
| 24 | It 's a plea which we suggest should make the timetable serve the child and not the reverse , and so what we 're doing is we 're saying to children erm ‘ Yes , you are of the same worth , you are of equal value , you should have the same care , love attention and the same resources ’ . |
| 25 | As the cortege approached Uzerche on its way north , the chronicler Geoffrey and a few monks from the priory of Vigeois , standing on a hill , watched it go by on the road below . |
| 26 | They wore Wellington boots , their corduroy jeans and the same jerseys as yesterday , Kate 's red , Stephen 's navy-blue . |
| 27 | Add the bay leaf and a few flecks of butter and bake four about 15 minutes . |
| 28 | Observation of zoo animals and the few accounts from naturalists in the field suggest they are a fairly stormy procedure , consisting of mock chases , vicious swipes of the female 's paw as well as obvious kisses and caresses . |
| 29 | It is difficult to characterize such relations as ‘ capitalist ’ , or to regard them as oppressive : most of the rich men of the Zuwaya managed their businesses in this way , getting a good return on money laid out , but creating wealth for poorer fellow tribesmen and a few others in the process . |
| 30 | So I made myself at home at the Golden Turk ; the two-faced landlord greeted me civilly enough , providing a chamber on the second floor with a pallet bed and a few sticks of furniture . |