Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few illustrations survive of the interiors of funeral furnishing establishments prior to the introduction of the camera . |
| 2 | The Girls used a combination of numbers five and nine ; a few streaks painted on the cheeks , chin , nose and forehead were blended with the fingertips . |
| 3 | Once in the park , Joyce 's mother had stopped to talk to another young woman while Joyce herself sat watching some birds pecking at the remains of a sandwich that someone had dropped on the path . |
| 4 | However , he did concede that " there were indications that some activities and individuals might have been motivated to prevent success in constitutional goals " and that " some activities led to the deaths of people " . |
| 5 | There is a high correlation between the number of pages , number of days and the number of overall reports of particular cases , and these measures confirm the view that some cases predominate in the newspapers . |
| 6 | These votes came after a long and stormy debate ; some deputies warned of the dangers of dictatorship because the proposed new presidency lacked an adequate system of checks and balances by the legislature , and argued that a switch to presidential rule was premature . |
| 7 | Keep the party room fairly dark and decorated with ghostly-like pictures , broomsticks with a few twigs attached for the children to practise flying on , pictures of black cats and so on . |
| 8 | A few hens pecked between the cobbles and rabbits scuffled in hutches along one of the dry-stone walls . |
| 9 | For example , a few informants responded to the questions with images of death : ‘ It ( the community ) would go dead ’ , ‘ The community would die ’ , and so forth . |
| 10 | A few cars passed along the cobbles or parked , a few people on foot were on their way to work , not many . |
| 11 | Next month we 'll analyze some lines played by the greats exploring the different contexts of the ever-changing triplet groove . |
| 12 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 13 | Ecclesiastical fashion is slower in its cycles of change , but after the short sleeves and jeans of Vatican II have worn thin , I would not be surprised to see a few fedoras perched on the heads of priests — perhaps even with a drooping moustache . |
| 14 | A few grenades chucked into the crowds outside polling stations would have quickly spread panic . |
| 15 | Anthropologists usually spend some years learning about the cultures of ‘ their ’ people by living with them . |
| 16 | Okay I 'll put together some ideas based on the areas we 've discussed today and if we can arrange a time for me to come back I can present my recommendations to you . |
| 17 | By this time , the hour was getting late , and few lights burned in the windows of the Salamanca household . |
| 18 | He ducked down the back stairs — glad , for once , that there were so few lights working along the landings — as his visitors strode towards the front . |
| 19 | Some males return to the ponds on subsequent nights , but because there are few females around , very little happens . |
| 20 | Having filled their buckets with bright red liquid ( thanks for the colouring ) contestants in Blind-man 's buff had to rely on shouts from supporters to get back to their corner with a few drops left in the buckets — no thanks to members of the Summer Fayre committee who kept moving the obstacles — just in case it good too easy you understand ! |
| 21 | THE COUNTY now known simply as Lothian is an amalgamation of what used to be East Lothian , Midlothian , and West Lothian , with a few bits chipped off the edges here and there : for example , the little settlement of Stow with its packhorse bridge over the Gala Water was once in East Lothian but has now been lured into the Borders region . |
| 22 | Our attention had been drawn initially by a hose snaking into the water and some bubbles rising from the depths . |
| 23 | It would be useful to further explore some themes raised by the contributions to this section , First , in an age of constrained budgets , how do national institutions afford the infrastructure in order to take advantage of these new opportunities ? |
| 24 | He became a sergeant and later , because of an act of suicidal braver , became one of the few men promoted from the ranks to become an officer . |
| 25 | Another special design shape is the spray ( see pp. 114–5 ) , and if you wanted one that was lighter in feel , you could create a spray of flowers with the stalks still showing as though they were an unwrapped bouquet , or a spray made to look as though it was a sprig from a bush or tree , with some flowers intertwined with the leaves . |
| 26 | Some courses draw on the students ' own experience , usually in the workplace . |
| 27 | Some municipalities turned in No votes of 99% . |
| 28 | Nothing seemed to be moving on the road itself , though Sharpe supposed the French must have some skirmishers concealed in the fields of long rye . |
| 29 | Here are some others offered by the scriptwriters . |
| 30 | Some chapters look at the manifestations of urban breakdown-John Benyon and John Solomos writing about racial conflict and disorder , for example — others , like Robert Reiner , at the evidence on rising crime rates and the complex ethical dilemmas which are often presented as simple . |