Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Finally , if the organization must engage in illegal activities to attain its goals , men with a non-demanding moral code will have the least compunctions about engaging in such behaviour .
2 The development of immunoprophylaxis for group B streptococcal infections may ultimately result in the most appropriate intervention with the least effects on the neonatal microbial flora .
3 Almost half of Shrewsbury has Welsh blood , or at the least friends in Wales .
4 Yes , he holds the least votes on committee in Security .
5 These five cars received the least modifications of any of the South Metropolitan fleet and in fact it was many years before they were even repainted , running in deep chocolate and ivory , with only the fleet numbers and badges altered .
6 The UK gives the least subsidies of any major marine manufacturing country and only warship yards are regarded as of strategic significance .
7 The sub-atomic world becomes so strange and ‘ unscientific ’ that the some physicists like Fritjof Capra have been moved to consider the weird world of quarks and leptons in semi-mystical terms that combine the new physics with a holistic view of life in general .
8 Many viruses have been innocently spread by engineers using the some disks on their daily rounds .
9 Below and above him were overhangs ; he had lost all his equipment ; the few inches of rock beneath his feet threatened to crumble away ; a blizzard tore at him constantly ; his situation was entirely hopeless .
10 Luke smiled again , reaching across the few inches of space Fran had managed to leave between them to catch her hand and raise it to his lips as he pressed a lovingly tender kiss to her fingertips .
11 This jerk kept the pram moving over the few inches between the foot of the gentle slope and the beginning of the steep grassy bank that ended up at the road .
12 On Exercise that morning he had tossed his offering the few inches from his pocket to a waiting bucket .
13 So I rung them again and said it was dangerous and they came out more or less straight away and did the few holes at the top .
14 Among the few papers in his possession at the time of his death were some manuscript notes in which he was evidently attempting to develop his earlier skit , ‘ The Hopkin Syndicate ’ .
15 In one of the few studies of evacuation behaviour after a non-nuclear hazard event Liverman and Wilson ( 1981 ) give weight to this argument .
16 This section first compares prevalence in Wirral with the few studies of rates of opioid use in other parts of the UK , and then turns to an examination of the characteristics of opioid users in different areas .
17 On the one hand , cognitive-behavioural interventions with a high turnover and short contact have yielded promising results in the few studies in which they have been attempted .
18 Although she did not even turn to look at him , a delicious warmth began to spread through her inert form — as though some electrical force was quietly pulsing across the few feet of water separating their bodies .
19 Instead he silently walked the few feet between them and put his arms round her .
20 He smiled and she pulled her robe tightly round her ; the bathroom that had seemed quite large had shrunk to the few feet between them .
21 But in the split second it took Angel Two to cover the few feet between them , Grant reflexively pulled the trigger of the shotgun .
22 Then , pretending for a moment that he was back there , he would turn round and face the back of his cage , open his wings , and glide down the few feet to where his food lay on the ground , pretending that it was prey and that the few feet was hundreds of feet , and that he could feel strong winds on his wings and was an adult eagle , and free , free to fly where he liked .
23 Then he turned the few feet to Creggan 's cage and stared up to where Creggan had taken stance on the bare branch of wood that hung across his cage .
24 She jumped out and ran the few feet to where a man was struggling out of his jeep , which had tipped onto one side with the two left wheels suspended above the open gully .
25 Among the few surprises in a generally lacklustre sale of nineteenth-century furniture and decorative arts at Sotheby 's New York on 13 February was a walnut library table , simply catalogued as ‘ American Walnut library table , third-quarter 19th century , Probably Philadelphia ’ , and estimated at $4–6,000 .
26 Further on the Brook splits , and one tributary leads to the few remnants of what was Upper Ley Mill .
27 The few instances of " long distance transport tend to be early : at Fishbourne , or Angmering , where siltstone of Mediterranean origin was encountered .
28 This seemed to explain one of the few advantages of the underground network to Preston — the fact that it was comparatively free of Rottweilers and pit bull terriers .
29 As one would predict , the few experiments on auditory deprivation confirm that there may be extensive loss of functioning .
30 The Secretary of State is one of the few Ministers for whom I have any respect .
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