Example sentences of "of a few [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile pacifists were generally content with the abstract moralizing suggested by the Manchester Guardian 's opposition to the formation of a Liberal Foreign Affairs Committee on the grounds that the ‘ success or failure [ of foreign policy ] depends on the application of a few simple principles to facts which as a rule are not very numerous nor very complicated . ’ |
| 2 | If that means throwing hundreds out of work , or depriving families of a few extra pounds by delaying interest rate cuts , then so be it . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | ( 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 ) . |
| 5 | For the cost of a few cubic feet of topsoil , the garden can be terraced excitingly onto , say , three levels . |
| 6 | It extended the web of relationships under the mantle of a few comprehensive terms of relationship connoting close , primordial loyalties . |
| 7 | All this fuss over the hunting of a few small cubes of mycoprotein |
| 8 | She has also been involved with the organisation of a few other projects including a National Sleep Out , which aimed to increase public awareness of Aberdeen 's homeless people and Dial-a-Santa which took place at the end of last year . |
| 9 | The great majority of revolutionary populists resolutely rejected the deception and unprincipled adventurism of a few untypical deviants like Nechaev . |
| 10 | There was an enormous gap between the possibilities of radical architecture and the strategic thinking of a few academic planners on the one hand , and the practical capabilities of planning staffs at local government level , on the other . |
| 11 | But take a word of advice … do n't get delusions of grandeur on the basis of a few steamy nights with Guy … he 's the ultimate bastard where women are concerned , darling . |
| 12 | Although the speculations of a few Italian statesmen about the African shores of the Mediterranean hinted at the patterns of future international rivalry , the powers for the most part displayed in 1880 an almost complete preoccupation with European interests and lack of sensitivity about the rest of the world . |
| 13 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 14 | For most builders management accounting will be limited to the production of a few fundamental sets of additional information , although the national contractors will have developed many finely tuned and sophisticated management accounting techniques . |
| 15 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 16 | Unfortunately I ca n't imagine any chairman introducing measures that would make it harder for him to flog of a few prised assets in order to raise some hard cash . |
| 17 | For example , there has been extensive coverage of the controversial actions of a few local councils in London , and of the campaign for black sections in the Labour party . |
| 18 | God was , for Darwin then , still the traditional good and wise creator , but one never working in so many separate acts of miraculous interference , always through the natural consequences of a few initial enactments of general causal laws : as with planetary orbits and the law of gravitation , so , Darwin insisted , with species origins and the laws of generation . |
| 19 | A Major or a Kinnock may work for decades in the hope of a few short years at the pinnacle of our political system . |
| 20 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
| 21 | They found that the two parents claim and defend a territory of a few square metres in the shallow stream in which they live . |