Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few problems Julie and her husband faced was choosing tiles for the splashback . |
| 2 | The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance . |
| 3 | Smashing through the few Night Goblins that remained to oppose them , Duregar and Belegar headed west . |
| 4 | The few wall lights that were working were back-ups . |
| 5 | In the current situation of economic recession , and cuts in the few nursery facilities that do exist , this option does not appear to be a very feasible one . |
| 6 | Each tag will have to hold at least the information : This will mean that the few home addresses or home buckets which have large numbers of synonyms will have to allocate a lot of space for these tags . |
| 7 | Of course there were again too many people chasing too few jobs , but they took it so well , from the older ones amongst the women , who shared out the few cleaning jobs that were going in the City of London , to the elderly Scottish temporary Clerk-in-Charge of the boy 's department . |
| 8 | Our way was up to one of the few glacier tongues that was n't too steep and broken up by crevasses . |
| 9 | The tops of ling heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) , produce yet another shade of yellow dye when boiled in water , and in fact that entire plant is wonderfully versatile : it was commonly used for thatching houses , and even today the few Highland thatchers that remain will swear it is the best thatch in Gaeldom ; it provided beds to sleep on , with the ‘ tops up and roots down ’ arrangement of the mattress assuring a pleasantly aromatic and sound sleep ; it was used in part of the process of tanning leather ; and the fresh , young tops of the heather were ( and at times still are ) brewed into a kind of ale . |
| 10 | As You Like It does n't even have the cinematic crutches of the few Shakespeare movies that have worked — no Henry V trench-warfare here . |
| 11 | And that 's Nick Harris talking to Ken Vasey up at the Manor ground and we hope to return to the Manor in a few moments time and see who else Nick has got to talk to us . |
| 12 | There were a few moments silence before they turned their backs to the church and , still holding hands , sang : |
| 13 | There was a tumult at the gates , and in a few moments Dunan and the Hearthwares joined them . |
| 14 | It was poor but swept clean , a few pewter pots and pans , scrubbed in boiling water , hanging from nails in the wall . |
| 15 | We floundered around for an hour or so , seeing a few wood sandpipers and dusky redshanks ( who invariably saw us first ) . |
| 16 | I gave up at half a dozen , desultorily checked a few share prices and failed to read more than two paragraphs of an article on the gilt-edged market . |
| 17 | A very simple and beautiful example of the use of substitution notes may be found at the beginning of Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde : Here the commonplace cadence A minor-F7-E7 is given a subtle mystery through the use of a few substitution notes as follows : in bar 2 , G is a chromatic substitution for A ( on which it resolves ) , while B is a diatonic substitution for A or C , on which it does not resolve ; in bar 3 , A substitutes chromatically for B , on which it resolves . |
| 18 | Most door-to-door sales people carry a few sample items and an illustrated catalogue showing their complete range of goods . |
| 19 | The card below it shows three ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ roses , a few alchemilla flowers and the leaves and tendrils of some old man 's beard . |
| 20 | So training is very easy to implement like that with a few memory cells and a binary decoder . |
| 21 | He left the corner and trekked a few blocks east until he found a bar , where he put two bourbons down his throat , and wished to his core that alcohol and not the opposite sex had been his addiction . |
| 22 | The investor who has a few privatisation shares and wants to extend a portfolio without paying for advice does have a cheap alternative to discretionary portfolio management . |
| 23 | Vary the order with a few vegetable dishes and steamed rice . |
| 24 | The scientists stressed that it was little more than a laboratory curiosity , the energy coming from the fusion of only a few hydrogen atoms and ‘ was scarcely enough to register on highly sensitive measuring instruments ’ ; although the process had no immediate commercial value it suggested ‘ possible industrial uses of immeasurable importance ’ . |
| 25 | Joseph fell seriously ill at this time , and so Ollokot , accompanied by a few Wellamotkin warriors and an elderly holy man , represented the Wallowa band . |
| 26 | I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank . |
| 27 | I 've pulled out a few press cuttings as well whilst I was looking through some of the for this talk . |
| 28 | Catherine has entered a few poetry competitions and written other short stories . |
| 29 | What he needed was someone to get him by the scruff of the neck , tell him a few home truths and offer emotional stability . |
| 30 | In the early nineteenth century ice was used for this purpose only in a most limited way , on a few country estates and in the area around Barking , where it was collected from the marshes most winters . |