Example sentences of "[noun pl] with [adv] a [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Go , for example , to a meeting of the European Space Agency and the place will be crawling with European technical journalists with only a few desultory Brits , as often as not from the show-biz pages . |
| 2 | This may range from small areas of earthworks within or at one end of a settlement , to large areas of earthworks with only a few farms and cottages in use today . |
| 3 | In America , wind is already being used by small communities with just a few well-designed windmills to supply all their power needs . |
| 4 | We will try to illustrate these possibilities with just a few examples , though it is naturally impossible to cover the subject adequately in a short space . |
| 5 | Some of the technology the group is using such as speculative loads has never been used before and as a result the designers believe the specification will stand unmodified for the next twenty years with only a few extensions . |
| 6 | I choose patterns with only a few passes with the lace carriage because all the time this carriage is in operation no inches ( sorry centimetres ) are being added to the length of the garment . |
| 7 | Danvers , Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp is cutting prices on its M-8000 bridge product family : it says it will offer a fully H.320 version of its M-8000 Multipoint Bridge starting at $45,000 for the M-8600 with three ports : the M-8600 is for customers with only a few videoconferencing systems and limited requirements for linking a large number of sites on the same call ; the H.320 standards-compliant version will ship in the autumn . |
| 8 | The initial ribbon development along the Ermine Street frontages with only a few irregular side-lanes and possibly one large building ( No. 1 ) . |
| 9 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 10 | Maybe the Church is n't the answer for some especially those in parishes with only a few young people , but that is why I praise the deanery day as it provides a discussion place for people of all ages , and encourages us — the Church of the future — to make the Church a more appealing and welcoming place . |
| 11 | A correlator 's input consists of examples with just a few features which can be quite elaborate . |
| 12 | In a natural arrangement use mainly medium size headed flowers with just a few large heads |
| 13 | ‘ No , but until my late teens I spent each and every holiday on the Algarve so I have had conversations with quite a few . ’ |
| 14 | Thus studies which , for example , have involved showing subjects a series of slides with just a few of them being arousing , e.g. autopsy slides ( Kramer , Buckhout , Fox , Widman & Tusche , 1991 ) or disfigured faces ( Christianson & Nilsson , 1984 ) , have shown impairments in memory for paired associates to the arousing stimulus or anterograde amnesia for subsequent slides . |
| 15 | I told him and we reached the CHAB studios with only a few moments to settle Mr Murray before the microphone and be ready for the red light signifying we were ‘ on the air ’ . |