Example sentences of "[conj] [art] few [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wagstaff argues that the few studies which do appear to show modest improvement in recall under hypnosis failed to have control groups which were equally encouraged to remember . |
| 2 | As early as 1910 , Mercereau had sent to Russia an exhibition of works by Gleizes , Metzinger and Le Fauconnier , and a few artists whose aims he felt to be similar . |
| 3 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 4 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 5 | But a few comments which seem to be apposite erm , we do n't want to kill animals with cruelty do we not ? |