Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wedding Present violently oppose most rock 'n' roll ethos , but perhaps one of the few areas where they have shown loyalty to tradition has been their gluttonous appetite for live work . |
| 2 | How avoid lending multinationals a green gloss in the few areas where they are performing well , while they otherwise continue in their evil ways ? |
| 3 | Birkeland commented that it was not useful to blame poor populations for exploiting the few resources that they had , when fishing or mining reefs could earn them millions of dollars . |
| 4 | Coventry v Arsenal Arsenal return to one of the few grounds where they were beaten last season , with their match winner against Manchester United , Groves , likely to partner Smith up front again . |
| 5 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 6 | In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow . |
| 7 | The pressure of population caused much less concern in the Welsh Border counties where there was still sufficient land available to allow poor immigrants to erect cottages on the wastes and to claim common rights to go with the few acres that they had cleared from the woods or the moors . |
| 8 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 9 | They took breath for a few moments before they emerged , after the third volley , to finish what they had begun , the Welsh swordsmen boiling out of the bushes joyously on their heels . |
| 10 | They fell silent for a few moments as they drank their tea . |
| 11 | Er er , I 've , er I just I 'm just saying that , er , that , that last year er , when I made a few remarks that they were misquoted by Reuters and we did leave the meeting and the share price dropped by er , several P and we had to send out a correcting statement so this year we 've taken the precaution of issuing a press release er , at the same time as er , er , I 'm making these remarks so I hope at least they wo n't be misinterpreted . |
| 12 | Do you have a rota system where if maybe six have got onto an appliance and there 's another fire comes up in a few hours that they can not turn ut again , or is it just a matter of whoever gets there first again ? |
| 13 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 14 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 15 | whatever you want to do , but it 's not worth doing anything else other than we 're going to play a few games but they 're |
| 16 | Miss Bedwelty arrived a few minutes after they did and they all piled into the factory . |
| 17 | A few minutes after they drove away there was a knock at the front door . |
| 18 | A few minutes after they started again a movement out on the plain caught Nathaniel Sherman 's eye . |
| 19 | Yeah , and they 're only out for a few minutes and they 're fed up out there as well , and backwards and forwards like a fiddlers elbow go on I want to put those lupins in |
| 20 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 21 | The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again . |
| 22 | When domestic pigs go feral , it 's only a few generations before they start to look like the ancestral Eurasian wild boar . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've roughed out a few questions but they 're only a guide . ’ |
| 24 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 25 | And the Oxford Cheetahs can ruffle a few feathers when they meet the Exeter Falcons tonight . |
| 26 | They need to sort out a few things and they 'll be very competitive . ’ |
| 27 | The war having started in September , the RAF were accepting a few Americans but they did n't like his record . |
| 28 | Books can be sold on their jackets to impulse buyers who may well not read more than a few pages once they have bought them . |
| 29 | I thought Honved might cause them a few problems once they had equalised . |
| 30 | Denmark , the country that likes to say no , ruffled more than a few egos when they said yes to becoming European Championship substitutes and drew with England in their opening game before going on to win the trophy . |