Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their importance for the teacher is substantial — in a work environment where few other adults directly witness the quality of the teacher 's work , examination results provide one of the few public and apparently objective indicators of a teacher 's competence . |
| 2 | Pta 70–90 million ; £388,900 ; $676,000 ) and Zurbarán 's ‘ St John Chrysostom and Fray Luis de Granada ’ of 1651 , one of the few signed and dated works by this painter . |
| 3 | There is a watercolour of this by Fortuné de Fournier , and so it is one of the few smaller but important rooms of the Tuileries of which we have a record . |
| 4 | Exact patterns of change will remain a matter of controversy for historians , as they were for contemporaries , but what emerges from the inadequate farm records and welter of subjective comment by biased and often condescending outside observers is a marked contrast between the fortunes of a few well-organised and prosperous landowners and the general backwardness of their counterparts and tenants . |
| 5 | Before the war , Unionists had pointed to the huge disparity between the smallest and largest seats ( in 1910 Kilkenny had an electorate of a few hundred and Romford an electorate of over 50,000 ) , and had noted that Unionist constituencies were on average larger than Liberal constituencies , far larger than those of Nationalists in Ireland . |
| 6 | The third National Government followed upon the resignation of the Liberal ministers and of the free trader , Snowden , in September 1932 , after which it became little more than a Conservative government , with the adhesion of a few ex-Labour and Liberal politicians , all owing their seats to an electoral pact with the Conservatives . |
| 7 | Mr Vecchiotti is looking not for masses of assembly-line workers , but for a few skilled and adaptable engineers . |
| 8 | cheque for a few thousand or something , that would have but it were n't . |
| 9 | Station CBR broadcast part of the output of the CBC national network from 6am to midnight , and for a few hour-long or half-hour periods each day , the feed was reversed , and CBR fed programmes to the network . |
| 10 | As the monk studied God 's Word he would frequently find his heart lifting itself up to God for a few brief but intense moments . |
| 11 | Their Korean hosts were said to be upset at the way they barely acknowledged each other in public except for a few surly and petulant exchanges . |
| 12 | He was not , in fact , an exponent of the martial arts , but for a few short but character-forming weeks during a university summer vacation he had boxed a kangaroo called Cobber in a travelling circus . |
| 13 | IBM is now making between a few hundred and a few thousand PowerPC 601s a month in Vermont . |
| 14 | For example , in an industry with a few large and many small firms , the large firms may support a trade association to lobby for industry-wide benefits because they get large benefits from it , even though the small firms also benefit from its success without joining . |
| 15 | The sunken road leading into the orchard was full of wounded , mainly German , with a few British and French Commandos being attended to by a French medic . |
| 16 | And outside the main season , weather is like a typical English summer ; mostly sunny , with a few wet and cold days . |
| 17 | The sex exclusive markers which do indeed occur in some languages are superficially striking , but on closer inspection they can be seen to result from a few regular and predictable rules acting on the same basic structures . |
| 18 | What they all have in common is a basic commitment that the vines should have been cultivated without the use of chemical fertilisers , pesticides , fungicides or herbicides ( except for a few age-old things like Bordeaux mixture ) , and the wine made without chemical additives or agents — apart from a few natural and/or traditional substances . |
| 19 | Specimens from patients with non-specific focal fibrosis ( group C ) usually showed weak focal staining in a few epithelial and endothelial cells ( fig 2 , panel E ) . |
| 20 | What you fear most is an opponent who will point to a few simple but undeniable facts , and this is why the economists , and above all that wonderful race of men the economic journalists great and small , are such indispensable allies to the politician : they enable the politician to fog up what he is doing , so as to escape the blame and often even criticism for his actions . |
| 21 | Each item is separately labelled and lies on perpetual display , reducing all the pomp and ceremony of Empire to a few mute and pathetic items . |
| 22 | In keeping the description of the job to a few generalized but well-understood statements , a manager can well flex the boundaries of that job to meet the dynamic thrusts of the world around and to maximize contribution . |
| 23 | Various types of settlements have been distinguished , from isolated farmsteads in their own fields on the east side of the moor , through enclosed ‘ hamlets ’ with paddocks and ‘ gardens ’ ( Fig. 66 ) , to a few unenclosed and extensive settlements which look like villages . |
| 24 | It 's a proud day for all of our workers and we 're looking forward to a few interesting and busy weeks with the engine . |
| 25 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 26 | Among the few notable and recent examples of reforming leadership within prison systems , mention might be made of H.H. Brydensholt in Denmark , Hans Tulkens in The Netherlands , Ken Schoen in Minnesota and , with respect to youth prison systems , Jerome Miller in Massachusetts . |
| 27 | In practice , this meant NHS , NHS , NHS , plus a few triumphalist and premature nothings about the bright future ahead . |
| 28 | Throughout the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and through to the forties it was sustained by a few ambitious but poorly funded independent companies whose efforts received limited exposure . |