Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told the Congress of People 's Deputies that , while he would make a few personnel changes in his Cabinet , he would not give up his position as Prime Minister until he was sure the reforms had become irreversible . |
| 2 | The tiny seaside resort of Widemouth Bay is a few minutes walk from our entrance . |
| 3 | They had they had a few minutes silence for him when he died down Framlingham . |
| 4 | She spent a pleasant few minutes thinking of her small business where she designed and made exclusive wedding gowns for a rapidly growing circle of customers , but Dana 's early-morning phone call refused to be dismissed . |
| 5 | With excellent huts only a few hours walk from our tent and the possibility of traversing passes between them , we were spoilt for choice . |
| 6 | The community was to be governed according to the principle of ‘ Pantisocracy ’ — a word invented by Coleridge meaning ‘ equal rule by all ’ — and in the course of the next few months Pantisocracy in its broad details was discussed and argued into existence . |
| 7 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
| 8 | He stretches and stifles a yawn , there 's a few days stubble on his jowl , hair thin but shaggy , eyes peering briefly above the rim of his sunglasses , suede fringes swaying from his jacket as he roams the room before plonking into a chair . |
| 9 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
| 10 | I did this but it 's not for a few weeks time for my presentation on Freud , or |
| 11 | The Pre-Raphaelites were a specializing formation with ambiguous and eventually alternative relations with a rising commercial bourgeoisie : dissident but at some levels representative of their still forming cultural ( decorative ) intentions . |
| 12 | Only the tower of this church remains , a few yards west of which can be found Cook Senior 's last resting place , marked curiously by a stone commemorating a boy who died at sea . |
| 13 | A university steeped in classical , historical , and literary traditions was not unfriendly to science but had little awareness of the growing cost of high level scientific research , and even , perhaps , in some quarters reservations about its importance . |
| 14 | Mm mind you some children fish about it in cupboards do n't they ? |
| 15 | What did this drawings collection of your father consist of ? |
| 16 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 17 | They might find themselves having to issue a succession of fixed-term contracts to each worker , and having to take steps to include in these contracts provisions for their premature termination . |
| 18 | In these circumstances adjustment of their industrial structures , induced by membership of a CU , can not be aided by exchange rate adjustments . |
| 19 | How do these sports shape-up with our Three S's — Suppleness , Stamina and Strength ? |
| 20 | Next time we drink it , a dim reminder of all these things chimes through us as we get a taste of the wine . |
| 21 | What sort of work were these girls doing for us ? ’ |
| 22 | In all cases reasons for your decision must be given . |
| 23 | She keeps busy with local activities and has been for many years editor of her church magazine . |
| 24 | For instance , if there are two functions f and g defined on the set of all possible examples , and f can take the value a and g can take the value b , then one such cluster might be defined as the set of all examples x for which f(x) = a ∘ g(x) = b |
| 25 | The poor , American slaves , Irish Catholics or the hypocrisy of war were all causes dear to his Whiggish heart and he scandalised the Establishment of his day . |
| 26 | Conference , I accept this award on behalf of all women activists within my union because , sisters , we know it 's not always easy for women , however , I 'm here to prove that we can achieve , but we need the encouragement and support of our male colleagues . |
| 27 | I speak Trob because there are many beTrobi sailors in our ports . |
| 28 | Do you have many women artists on your books ? |
| 29 | At many tasks workers in their sixties and seventies can out-perform those in their twenties , though not those at their peak in their thirties and early forties . |
| 30 | Newco will want to attribute maximum consideration to those assets expenditure on which will be eligible for capital allowances , namely industrial buildings , qualifying hotels , plant and machinery , know-how , patent rights and capital sums incurred on software licences . |