Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they all have in common is a basic commitment that the vines should have been cultivated without the use of chemical fertilisers , pesticides , fungicides or herbicides ( except for a few age-old things like Bordeaux mixture ) , and the wine made without chemical additives or agents — apart from a few natural and/or traditional substances . |
| 2 | The Articles were registered in 1953 under the CA 1948 , and except for a few standard exclusions , largely adopt Table A , in force at that time . |
| 3 | Bowing to the inevitable , Kenya started to remove the controls in 1988 and had eliminated them all by 1990 , except for a few agricultural products like maize . |
| 4 | Small , rather tame and confiding aquatic waders , much the smallest birds likely to be seen swimming , except for a few all-dark petrels . |
| 5 | Except for a few stereotyped responses from the wilder churches — Pastor David Powell of the Rotherham Pentecostal Church actually banned gays from his services — and a few jibes from the local National Front , we were always treated politely , listened to with interest and generally well received . |
| 6 | But the usual squashing and stretching still applies to most projection prints , except for a few large cinemas in major cities which are able to afford the expensive 70mm projectors . |
| 7 | These islands are uninhabited , except for a few wild goats , rabbits and birds . |
| 8 | For the Balinese the ocean has always been the underworld , and source of their demons ; except for a few intrepid fishermen , they used to approach it only to scatter the cremated ashes of their dead . |
| 9 | While the French , probably for nationalist reasons , stuck to their own style — with a consequent isolation of French natural science ( though not of French mathematics ) — except for a few celebrated individuals , the Germans did not . |
| 10 | But , except for a few dedicated monarchists , Central Europeans are not dreaming of a restored Habsburg dynasty . |
| 11 | Except for a few specialised publications such as The Art Newspaper , only a handful of quality papers regularly deal with issues concerning the art trade : the International Herald Tribune ; the German Handelsblatt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; and in the United States , the New York Times . |
| 12 | Once assured of their willingness to adopt the patriot cause the ‘ people ’ turned to their natural , local leaders and disappeared from the stage except for a few significant reappearances and a few protests against ‘ the rich ’ . |
| 13 | It 's trying to forget it , and trying to turn it into a more reassuring manifest content , so it starts to dream about it , but the latent thoughts are so disturbing it never succeeds and consequently the whole dream work , this process of disguising the latent content , just does n't get anywhere at all , except for a few minor details . |
| 14 | So , except during a few warm days in summer , a white coat would seem to put its wearer at a disadvantage . |
| 15 | ( In fact , Curtis Bernhardt , the director of A Stolen Life , claims that both characters were not only on-screen simultaneously but passed each other and interacted without the use of a double , except in a few over-the-shoulder shots ; unfortunately he had forgotten when interviewed how this was done . |
| 16 | Add to these statistics that translations have now appeared in some 850 languages and it will be apparent that , except in a few notable cases , rarity is not often a factor to be reckoned with . |
| 17 | Except in a few isolated instances , there has been little systematic planning in relation to most countries ' social welfare personnel training needs and resources and there has been very limited involvement in find some countries and schools of social work that have adopted a comprehensive approach to social service personnel training and development and are directing their efforts toward maximizing the contribution of all available human resources to their country 's or region 's social development goals . |
| 18 | Gowon behaved in a fashion which should attract historic credit in that his amnesty was a genuine amnesty ; no retribution , except in a few isolated instances , was inflicted on the Ibos in consequence of the war . |
| 19 | The beneficiaries are not small farmers except in a few isolated cases where costs and benefits are seen to be equally shared ( e.g. in Sukhomaj Village which is discussed in the CSE report , p. 14 ) . |
| 20 | In 1974 , Lubans observed that ‘ instructional programmes in all types of libraries have been infrequently evaluated , their need and effect have not been measured except in a few isolated cases ’ . |
| 21 | Collection of a few of the mostly common species for the home aquaria is unlikely to diminish the local fauna , except in a few special areas , which need to be respected . |
| 22 | Yet starting a daily paper anywhere other than in a few large cities is scarcely an attractive investment . |
| 23 | This was a difficulty which Mrs Thatcher , though far more able , intelligent and industrious than Kinnock , failed except at a few critical moments , to surmount . |
| 24 | The valleys of the choked and overflowing streams were speedily transformed into long stretches of bog , impassable except by a few well-defined tracks , which became marks for the enemy 's artillery . |
| 25 | I was desperately trying not to let the cat out of the bag , and a few tricky moments came about just because of a few crossed wires . |
| 26 | Now it all went for nought because of a few careless words . |
| 27 | Here and there gleams as of a few scattered pieces of silver marked the windings of the great river ; and on the nearest of them , just within the bar , the tug steaming right into the land became lost to my sight , hull and funnel and masts , as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor ( 5 ) . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) , " suggesting ruins of stone walls ( 2 ) , " looked solid ( 2 ) , " Corresponding in their insignificance " ( 4 ) , " as of a few scattered pieces of silver ( 5 ) , as though the impassive earth had swallowed her up … " ( 5 ) , " mitre-shaped " ( 6 ) . |
| 29 | In Northern Ireland , a selective system still predominates , though with a few comprehensive schools in certain areas . |
| 30 | a ) Intrusive igneous rocks occur in south Harris and western Lewis particularly , as well as in a few other localities , of which eastern South Uist is the most important . |