Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There are a few songs but mostly the show follows the stand-up format .
2 Sometimes the possible link can be from much longer ago than a few months and here the memory is almost invariably an unsolved murder case .
3 In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days .
4 For the first few months of the campaign they had very few weapons and virtually no ammunition .
5 There are few cars here , though lots of bicycles , very few dogs and almost no dog mess ( even the horse-drawn buggies for tourist joyrides have built-in pooper scoopers ) .
6 Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond .
7 Finally , as the advanced further education pool is virtually certain to be reduced , in relative terms , in the next few years and consequently the survival of some institutions may be at stake , NAB 's most difficult job is likely to be to steer public sector higher education through the stormy seas ahead with as little long-term damage as possible .
8 They rolled around on the ground together for a few moments and then the boy 's mother came out and gave him Sergeant 's leash .
9 Gesner would be on in a few moments and then the thing would lift off .
10 The estate agent suggested an asking price and took some measurements and then a photograph , standing on the edge of the lawn that had become a meadow , where Rufus had stood and taken photographs a year before .
11 But the cell must already have an internal system which can respond to such signals and again the signal is being selective .
12 The results of these discussions , therefore , could have significant implications for authorised firms and the training needs of their members , who may well be asked to demonstrate not only their proven skills in handling such matters but also the level of their knowledge of the market and the products on offer .
13 It was pointed out that the relocation of Mackies would create just such conditions and eventually the minority workforce will be disposed of .
14 The project indicates how retailers organise the labour in such stores and consequently the range of types of job created .
15 Contact is then set up between these groups and eventually a member of the computer department , called , usually , a systems analyst , will be assigned to assess the feasibility of such a system , and a communication or dialogue is begun between the systems analyst and members of the user department .
16 Secondly , as these yields and therefore the cost of non-bank borrowing fall , the demand for bank lending is reduced .
17 Increasingly the free standing sixth form has found difficulty in responding adequately to these changes and consequently a variety of alternative forms of provision has been developed .
18 Whether there is upregulation of the genes that produce these antigens or merely a change in expression on the cell surface has not been investigated : in situ hybridisation should provide an answer to this question .
19 In the paper prepared by the Trade Union Research Project which the Panel considered , they outline 5 options , one is a new model , two is a switch to high technology industry and the Panel will come up and say well they either support one or two or three of these options and then the council will have to consider which of the options they adopt , and then have to consider what their planning powers are in relation to it .
20 ‘ We very much regret these redundancies but overall the reorganisation will result in a more targeted and focused research effort .
21 Children 's behaviour problems can arise in all of these contexts and so the advice needs to be specifically tailored to the individual family 's requirements .
22 Mr Winchester , a Mac-fan of many years and now the boss of a Mac-using electronic-publishing company , has an ingenious explanation : unlike the clumsy MS-DOS operating system that powers IBM computers and all their clones , the Mac can cope with comparative ease with the pictographic scripts and unusual phonetic alphabets of Asia .
23 The WORDWISE program will be used as an example here but the options are very similar in all packages and once the user learns the basics of word processing- switching between programs is relatively easy and it is likely that schools will have different types of word processing programs in the school library , in the computer room and in classrooms .
24 When we consider the nature of many items that only the state uses ( or hopefully does not use ! )
25 In a closed-loop control scheme with continuously.variable switching angle the motor is able to develop its pull-out torque at all speeds and therefore the system performance is maximised .
26 The department to examine their homework policy and look at what is being set to all pupils but especially the examination candidates .
27 ‘ Well , in that case , ’ he replied , ‘ I shall certainly need some more piccolos and probably a couple of flutes ! ’
28 Predictably they will tell the adviser that they can not rehouse all those families and perhaps the tenant can contact the police .
29 ‘ I want more waterfalls and perhaps a bridge . ’
30 The , the group usually has a leader or symbols which represent its aspirations like the statue of the Virgin Mary or , or Golden Churches or something to which act as representatives or icons for the aspirations , the ideals of the individual 's ego and every member of the group shares those , that leader or those icons or those ideals and consequently the group is unified by a kind of sentry petal flow of individual narcissistic libido towards the centre , towards the leader and that makes them more identifiable with each other .
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