Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This reduces reporting time to a few days . |
| 2 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 3 | By bending the rules which restricted travel to a few miles around Moscow , he had managed to undertake a number of journeys to such places as Samarkand , wonderfully described in his book , Eastern Approaches . |
| 4 | For some inexplicable reason , professional firms have previously considered that the.financial management procedures relevant to corporate entities bore little relevance to a professional services partnership . |
| 5 | In the pavilion he made a little speech to a few reporters . |
| 6 | They succeed by a greater division of labour , with most volunteers carrying responsibility for generalist advice while referring complex work to a few specialists . |
| 7 | I want the maximum degree of unity , but I also want a treaty to be constructed that carries no inexorable commitment to a united states of Europe . |
| 8 | Although a number of exclusions under the Act exist , there is none which is of general relevance to a UK-based futures dealer , broker , manager or adviser . |
| 9 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |
| 10 | The suggestion that Thomas 's race was a consideration in his nomination was highly embarrassing for Bush as it coincided with the president 's unrelenting opposition to a civil rights bill passed by Congress which he had pledged to veto on the grounds that it supported minority quotas . |