Example sentences of "[vb pp] to a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Visit the area several times and you will find yourself being attracted to a few sites in particular : these are the places where you can meet the earth spirit . |
2 | At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond . |
3 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |
4 | Insights into the actual personality are restricted to a few words under the heading ‘ recreations ’ . |
5 | Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ? |
6 | The level of the solution is then adjusted to a few centimetres above the level of solvent in s by means of a levelling rod 1 . |
7 | Cannons are dangerous if sometimes unpredictable weapons whose manufacture is limited to a few groups of human and Dwarf experts . |
8 | One of the serious limitations is the total interaction time with the microwaves , limited to a few milliseconds by the speed of the atomic beam and by the separation of the two Ramsey regions . |
9 | If that is a problem , ( limited to a few versions of the AMI bios ) a full fix involves doing without Stealth in QEMM , which may be a trade off ardent QEMM users do not wish to make . |