Example sentences of "[art] few [adj] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few small cottages which had once made up the village community had been bulldozed into the ground and their occupants moved into the grey and faceless high-rise apartment blocks of the new urban development . |
| 2 | As David Shulman , equity strategist at Salomon Brothers , was the first to point out , the danger for investors these days lies less with the few hot shares whose rise he misses than with the many dubious ones already in his portfolio . |
| 3 | The few electrical fittings which are allowed in bathrooms , such as heated towel rails , will already have their own earth connections . |
| 4 | They were far enough from the city for the sounds of insurrection to be too faint to disturb anyone but the few scrawny goats which wandered listlessly around their enclosures . |
| 5 | That Beveridge viewed the elderly with a notable lack of sympathy is evident in the few telling phrases which appeared in the final draft of August 1942 but were left out of the published Report : to give full subsistence pensions ‘ as a birthday present ’ to an individual attaining the age of 60 or 65 would be ‘ reprehensible extravagance ’ which was ‘ wholly unjustifiable ’ . |
| 6 | Of the forty of us who had survived so far , another twelve were weeded out and the rest of us sat there until 6.00 pm looking at the posters on the walls and reading the few tattered paperbacks which sat on the shelves . |
| 7 | Despite Romanian support for the Emperor Bokassa , the Central African Empire was one of the few African states which the Ceauşescus failed to visit . |
| 8 | The country is one of the few Arab states which has full diplomatic relations with both Superpowers and China , for similar reasons . |
| 9 | Outdoor Adventure is one of the few outdoor centres which makes adults its top priority . |
| 10 | Most medieval English dies are similar , but the few ancient dies which have survived differ somewhat in shape ( more conical , no square projection ) and in metal ( bronze rather than iron ) . |
| 11 | The eastern end of Norwich Cathedral ( 298 and 299 ) is one of the few English examples which retains the apsidal termination — in this case , tri-apsidal . |
| 12 | Never one to believe in quick or facile solutions , he cared very much about the national welfare ; and as he was one of the few British writers whose word carried any weight with the authorities — in contrast to such authors as Priestley who carried more weight with the public through his remarkable war-time broadcasts — he gave the impression of a certain helplessness in face of government policy which appeared to lack resolution . |
| 13 | In Joan 's case , this is one of the few phonological adaptations which she makes . |
| 14 | I had underlined the few shady connections which made it into the open . |
| 15 | It could be argued that integration is one of the few educational principles which has gained all-party political support . |
| 16 | Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word . |
| 17 | The BEA also looked carefully at the possibility of importing plant and materials , but ( with steel prices significantly higher in the USA and Europe and considerable difficulties in obtaining foreign exchange ) they confined themselves to importing only a few specialist components which were causing serious delays in the programme . |
| 18 | The RISC I instruction set contains a few simple operations which operate on registers . |
| 19 | Fitzpatrick , an All Black hooker of Irish stock , has a small problem with a few misshapen teeth which had inadvertently got enwrapped around an Irishman 's knuckles in the course of the first encounter . |
| 20 | The terms of this description make it absolutely clear that Polygnotos did not adhere to the single ground-line but placed his figures up and down the field with some rudimentary indication of setting ; and a few Athenian vases which must have been painted around the sixties show the same thing . |
| 21 | Simple measures such as keeping doors and windows closed , providing adequate containers for odorous material , covering the contents , refrigeration where necessary and the careful disposal of odorous or potentially odorous waste , are just a few preventative measures which ought to be taken in all trades , but particularly so in the animal byproduct industry , where putrescible matter is concerned . |
| 22 | Apart from a few small departments which relocated to Aldermaston into temporary accommodation shortly after the site was purchased , the main move was made in two parts starting with the move of the headquarters of Blue Circle Cement , the main UK operating group , into temporary accommodation in the third quarter of 1984 . |
| 23 | There are a few inconsiderate people whose golfing practice may be a nuisance . |
| 24 | He called for action to tackle the difficulties without ‘ shaming the reputation of this country and infringing the civil liberties of a few helpless people whose only sin has been to seek freedom and our protection ’ . |
| 25 | I mentioned that there are a few basic rules which you should bear in mind if your exercising is not to do you more harm than good . |
| 26 | Apart from the way in which we carry ourselves ( i.e. our body language ) , there are a few basic precautions which we can take to improve our safety when travelling . |
| 27 | He has a few basic routines which he sticks to . |
| 28 | Both teams had a few short corners which came to nothing . |
| 29 | There ought to be a few strict rules which are obeyed to the letter . ’ |
| 30 | Likewise it is only a few exceptional relationships which have the short-term characteristic of a money purchase in the market . |