Example sentences of "[adv] with [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |
| 2 | It means you 'll lose a bit of paintwork when you do the job but very u most often you can get it all back together with a few flakes of paint missing . |
| 3 | If necessary a small soda-water bottle with cap will do — add 150ml of distilled or purified water together with a few drops of vodka or brandy . |
| 4 | Add it to the icing sugar , together with a few drops of yellow food colouring . |
| 5 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 6 | If you choose to , you can blow this whole thing sky-high , just with a few words to the wrong people . ’ |
| 7 | It was obviously a recently fledged bird , still with a few tufts of down adhering to its head , but of its parents there was no sign . |
| 8 | He ( or she ) wo n't find a dead body in the foreshore , but he might well return home with a few cans of paint , a drum of oil , a host of seaborne lost offerings , or even a net of Spanish oranges tucked under his arm . |
| 9 | On this leg of the patrol it was mostly long steams southward with a few breaks for routine rummage , and we saw little in the way of oil related activity . |
| 10 | It dealt clearly with the many stages between the identification of plants which may have potential medicinal value and the eventual isolation of the active ingredient or ingredients for use by the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 11 | We were therefore left with two alternatives , to concentrate on particular aspects of " Manpower Control " using very few slides , or alternatively deal briefly with the many aspects of this topic in order to demonstrate the potential of the system available to us . |
| 12 | Really she was getting off lightly with a few glasses of bleach . |
| 13 | Oligo I was unspecifically competed with no ( - ) , 10 , 50 and 500 molar excess of oligo III ( lanes 1 to 4 , respectively ) or specifically with the same amounts of unlabelled oligo I ( lanes 5 to 8 ) . |
| 14 | but changes in the ownership and control of companies also took place between these dates , sometimes on virtually the same scale and certainly with the same consequences for programme contents . |