Example sentences of "[art] [adv] few [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purposes of the present paper the general position of the boundaries has been deduced from the linear arrangement of well known surface structures , some of which are recognisable on satellite images , and guided by the pattern of published gravity and aeromagnetic maps , also taking into account the age and character of the pre-Permian rocks penetrated in the relatively few deep boreholes from which data are publicly available . |
| 2 | In others he will have virtually no guidance , beyond looking at the relatively few determinate sentences for attempted murder and considering what adjustment should be made for the fact that death ensued . |
| 3 | Portadown is one of the very few Irish Circuits in which an adequate provision is made for the sustentation of Ministers on the spot . ’ |
| 4 | In most fields the nineteenth century was the age of the textbook , such as Thomas Thomson 's in chemistry and Lyell 's in geology , where successive editions made the earlier ones obsolete ; the plates that survive usefully are perhaps to be compared to the very few classic books like the Origin of Species which go on selling . |
| 5 | I know that sounds obvious but even nine years after I designed it , I still have one of the very few adjustable-height lecterns in the UK . |
| 6 | In one of the very few official references to population control at the conference , the Declaration called on states to " promote appropriate demographic policies " . |
| 7 | Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 8 | Why he was dragged out in 1558 and transformed from an obscure apostate into one of the very few great martyrs of the Scottish Reformation , remains a mystery . |
| 9 | The peak can be climbed as part of Kungsleden , the King 's Route , an excellent if over-populated route and one of the very few waymarked trails in the Arctic . |
| 10 | The party disintegrated and with it went one of the very few sensible perspectives on the Free City 's position . |
| 11 | The family of Mortimer of Chirk were one of the very few permanent victims of the political upheavals between 1322 and 1330 : they abandoned the attempt to recover Chirk , and settled in Rent . |
| 12 | Durham is one of the very few ecclesiastical buildings in England to retain its original clerestory windows ( as can be seen in Fig. 294 of the exterior ) . |
| 13 | L'Appel is one of the very few Protestant magazines in French-speaking Africa , and there are plans to make it monthly . |
| 14 | These days , when she occasionally took over from Annunciata and brushed Mrs Browning 's hair , she marvelled that a woman so much older than herself should still have such black , black hair with only a very few silver threads in it ( which she was instructed to pull out ) . |
| 15 | Only a very few civil servants within the recipient government understand what the project is really about . |
| 16 | The only thing was to push me at once to the front ; and almost immediately , after a very few brief words from the distinguished chairman , I found myself face to face with an audience that evidently meant mischief . |
| 17 | Rostov was one of a very few special exceptions to the Imperial edict which excluded commoners from access to the bi-annual treatment which was necessary for administration of the drug , but he saw no reason to apprise the Adjudicator of the fact . |
| 18 | Clinton 's second allegation , that there has been collusion between the security forces and Protestant para-military groups , is based on a very few isolated cases in which part-time members of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) have been found guilty of passing on sensitive information . |