Example sentences of "[art] [det] [adj] [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
| 2 | She smiled and waved , then took her grandfather 's arm to walk the few hundred yards to the church . |
| 3 | The Univel Inc joint venture of Novell Inc and soon-to-be-Novell subsidiary Unix System Laboratories Inc yesterday went onto the desktop Unix warpath by cutting prices for the desktop and application server versions of UnixWare , ‘ taking away one of the few remaining constraints to the rapid market adoption of Unix system as a client-server system ’ for iAPX-86-based computers . |
| 4 | Not only have they continued vigilantly to oppose the many external threats to the countryside , but they have developed an awareness that the rural environment is also being subverted from within — by farmers and landowners , and the demands of modern agricultural practice . |
| 5 | There is , however , a conflict between teaching and the many other commitments to the ward . |
| 6 | ( The many later alterations to The Prelude move in this direction too . ) |
| 7 | This is of particular interest to the many younger visitors to the centre . |
| 8 | The muted colours of Pavlos 's objects derives from the relation of the many cut edges to the printed colours of the paper , which are only visible where it has been spread open . |
| 9 | The majority , the huge majority , were to be shipped back in the same closed trains to the Motherland of Russia . |
| 10 | The full glory of Chuck Prophet 's twisted Telecastering is definitely best savoured live , but the latest release from Green On Red sees the errant duo of Prophet and Dan Stuart re-writing the same old songs to the same good effect . |
| 11 | Title III makes the same institutional alterations to the European Coal and Steel Community as does Title II to the EEC . |
| 12 | A renewed politicisation of linguistic divisions in Belgium was beginning to create problems for the Belgian Christian Social Party , while rapid secularisation in the Netherlands would push the several religious parties to the brink of what would be a dramatic decline in support . |
| 13 | It also excluded the cost of elections , for these were a financial problem for the candidate , not for the local association ; in a large county division an election could cost as much as £2,000 , and even an unopposed return in a borough would cost a few hundred pounds to the lucky winner . |
| 14 | Only a few hundred yards to the north-west of Thiepval is the Ulster Tower , commemorating the soldiers of the 36th ( Ulster ) Division and across the road is the Connaught Cemetery . |
| 15 | After spending the evening lambing , he had driven a few hundred yards to the copse from his home nearby at New Manor Farm , Winterslow , Wilts , where he lived with his Australian-born wife , Lavinia , 39 , seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter . |
| 16 | He followed in his own limousine — then drove the Panhard a few hundred yards to the finishing line . |
| 17 | With an automatic system a few simple alterations to the style sheet and it 's all done for you . |
| 18 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 19 | There is a very big market for graphical user interfaces but it is very far from being the whole market , and it seems highly likely that what the majority of today 's dogged MS-DOS users want is simply a few further refinements to the operating system they are familiar with . |
| 20 | Within fifty years West Ham was transformed from an essentially agricultural economy with a few nucleated settlements to the industrial heartland of south-east England . |
| 21 | There are a few common barriers to the satisfying sex life . |
| 22 | At the end of a torrid first half , Heriot 's led 5-0 , though they had paid only a few fleeting visits to the Stirling 22 . |
| 23 | A few more inches to the right and the shot would have been fatal . |
| 24 | Therefore , the costs of each program as mentioned in the reviews is not entirely accurate as users may be able to add a few more files to the disk to fill it up . |
| 25 | The women were to be seen hanging around in the yard talking quietly or trying to wash to get a few more rags to the pawnshop . |
| 26 | The same argument can be used to add a few more names to the list , but the total is still not large . |
| 27 | The same argument can be used to add a few more names to the list , but the total is still not large . |
| 28 | And in their own dossiers , I found a few suggestive hints to the effect that Rains and Kruger were hardly spotless . |
| 29 | Over-abundant growth may selectively promote a few aquatic plants to the detriment of others , clog the water-course and reduce the number of fish and other aquatic creatures ( and hence their predators ) . |
| 30 | Add a few fresh cranberries to the compote for colour and a festive touch . |