Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not enough to explain this , as some outsiders and many insiders did , by invoking some theory of social inertia , to the effect that Libyans still had a Bedouin mentality . |
| 2 | Few copies ever reached the streets : it seems that most copies were seized . |
| 3 | Some groups also suffer the effects of additional discrimination on the grounds of race and sex . |
| 4 | Some groups openly rejected the idea of a conference , whereas a number of leading figures , including Bassam Abu Sharif , ( senior adviser to Yassir Arafat . |
| 5 | Some birds probably learned the skill after encountering already opened bottles , from which not all the accessible milk has been drunk by the original opener . |
| 6 | Hens can be both fearful and aggressive when meeting strange birds , and as a result some birds never leave the house while others become victims of cannibalism . |
| 7 | This will be followed by a consideration of the relatively few attempts systematically to distinguish the social properties of the object from those of language as expressive medium . |
| 8 | Although a few birds usually spend the summer in Shetland they have not so far been proved to breed here . |
| 9 | Except in catering colleges , as part of a training course , few chefs still prepare a sauce charcutière . |
| 10 | A few minutes later came the first gun-fire . |
| 11 | She disappeared back into the kitchen and returned a few minutes later carrying a very dirty and dusty bottle of wine . |
| 12 | I returned a few minutes later to find the cube assembled . |
| 13 | Tonight then it 's a communion thanksgiving service , but let me just spend a few minutes just sketching a little background on some of life 's challenges . |
| 14 | The attack happened in March , and in a bizarre twist , the rapist returned to the scene some hours later to replace a pair of shoes he 's stolen from his victim . |
| 15 | The result is that once those who are unable to purchase have negotiated their way through the labyrinthine and highly variable eligibility rules to achieve a place on a council housing waiting list , they join a queue which is growing at a faster rate than addition to the council housing stock and which in some cases even exceeds the total number of families housed by the district council . |
| 16 | It 's not uncommon for victims of rape to be so traumatized by the attack that they delay , or in some cases never report the matter to police . |
| 17 | Some states even issue a non-driver 's licence : it actually says This Is Not A Driver 's Licence because you need something for identification . |
| 18 | When he realises that he has a migraine , my husband retires to bed for a few hours then spends the rest of the day in an armchair . |
| 19 | Some textbooks imply that it does n't matter ; few instructors teach it ; and some schools even have a policy not to lean . |
| 20 | Some schools rarely use the playing fields they have on site yet others whose only facilities are public parks have built tremendous reputations for sports activities . |
| 21 | Okay we changed a few words just to fit the words we could find , but yes , we , we had about a minute at the end , we read it through , and yes , it was fine . |
| 22 | A few months later came the California Motion Picture Corporation 's Salvation Nell , in which we follow the adventures of a young girl from the New York tenements , where her drunken father kills her mother and where all her associates are drunks or wasters , through to happiness in the arms of a Salvation Army major . |
| 23 | So his decision a few months later to join the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service as its first chief executive was probably enough to stupefy many of his peers . |
| 24 | But the 1588 volume does contain one tentative madrigal , a setting of Ariosto 's ‘ La verginella ’ , and a few months later appeared a collection which was a milestone in the naturalization of the madrigal in England . |
| 25 | Some tutors just love the sound of their own voices . ’ |
| 26 | But let's toss a few images about to gauge the potential extent of U2 's mesmerising all-round appeal . |
| 27 | Some animals also received a subarachnoid injection of COS-7 cells that were transiently transfected with a PDGF-A complementary DNA and which secreted PDGF into the cerebrospinal fluid . |
| 28 | ‘ Some gangs actually take the badgers up to Scotland for baiting . |
| 29 | But only a few schools completely integrated the teaching of domestic subjects and science . |
| 30 | The Leader , following in the track of the horses , went some paces ahead scanning the forest on either side ; behind him followed Hugh , walking close by Marian 's side ; still further back , together but with the width of the track between them , were Michael and the thin man ; and bringing up the rear was Crane , the young man who had run after the horses . |