Example sentences of "[verb] [art] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Given the few nuclear shelters that exist in the UK , most people would be excluded from them .
2 But what added most to the grotesque expression of his face , was a ghastly smile , which … constantly revealed the few discoloured fangs that were yet scattered in his mouth , and gave him the aspect of a panting dog . ’
3 While acknowledging that Sun has a ‘ big PR problem , ’ it thinks the few cranky customers threatening to jump to Hewlett-Packard Co do n't represent a trend .
4 The serenity , however , is an illusion : the secret lay in the photographer 's skill in catching the few fleeting moments when our son was not roaring his head off .
5 AMERICAN funds provide the few bright features in The Daily Telegraph/Micropal Personal Equity Plan Guide which otherwise shows continued underperformance by share-based investments this month .
6 A bonfire on the beach tonight when it 'll be too dark for my eye to catch a few stray words of love .
7 Is it a recent alliance , or does it stretch back a few years and involve a few other deals ?
8 Night fell , and after walking a few more miles down country roads , they finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river .
9 Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word .
10 Plain text could get us a long way , but words are an imprecise medium , and pictures and other symbolic descriptions often help ; so we shall need a few mathematical ideas and notations .
11 We 'll need a few lucky breaks on the way to do it , but it 's not impossible , ’ said midfielder David Phillips .
12 If you practise in an area where rentcharges are common you 'll also need a few more forms ( see your law stationer 's catalogue or the Land Registry list of official forms ) dealing with these .
13 You 'd need a few more clues to establish her Oxford connections … but in fact she was a student here at Somerville College , winning a first class degree … and she was born in the city , here at Brewer Street .
14 He forbore to add that Poll might have earned a few more blows as the result of Sally-Anne 's intervention , to prevent her from involving anyone else in future .
15 It had once been possible to trust a few Fascist families , especially those who had sons who had deserted from the army on 8 September ; but that was changing .
16 The pension had attracted a few more guests than Herr Zimmerman 's complaints had given him to expect .
17 And if Dorothea is too good to accept a few semi-precious brooches and earrings , if you are too sensitive to wear them , very well , I will have them and I will wear them .
18 So we have to discuss the B-H curves , and I will include a few more things , but you must realize that there is a lot more to it .
19 Although Emes designed a few minor buildings , such as a lodge at Attingham and a greenhouse at Penrice , his role as an architect is not significant .
20 He said that a man who 's gon na build a , build something , let's put it in a modern setting , the man who 's gon na , a man and woman , a couple are gon na put an extension on their house , they do n't just go down and buy a few dozen bricks , er , and a bag cement and start , they work out how much it 's gon na cost them first of all .
21 Wiv all the money we 'll make from the match day market and the find the lady stall in the boardroom — oh sorry , no , you 've already got one — we 'll be able to go out and buy a few proper players .
22 She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress .
23 Like Peters and Waterman ( 1982 ) , she emphasizes the need for top executives to establish a few clear signals in order to create a felt need for change , and to use ‘ prime movers ’ in the organization both to ‘ talk up ’ the new strategy and to ensure that the signals or symbols developed to establish the new direction are present in all important interactions — i.e. reflected in reports , agenda for meetings , key events , and so on .
24 Because I retained a few French words and phrases and could make myself understood in his language he had assumed a much wider knowledge than I possessed .
25 Even this simple job can be a pitfall for those who do not pay due attention , so let's discuss a few salient points .
26 In 1979 he published a paper showing that the perception evoked by stimulating the skin or the neural pathway between the skin and the cortex was reported by the subject as occurring a few hundred milliseconds before the cortical ERP was sufficiently complete to generate that perception .
27 On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew .
28 ‘ We want a few good skirmishers . ’
29 They want a few more minutes .
30 We want a few less troublemakers
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