Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It brings out the old policies of Enoch Powell way back and there are still a few Powellites in the Tory party . |
| 2 | He had a few contacts in the Metropolitan force . |
| 3 | Basically it was about certain British officials allegedly colluding in drug-test avoidance at some meetings in the early eighties . |
| 4 | Unlike the Mantuan and Ferrarese madrigalists , Marenzio composed mainly for the pleasure of the performers themselves , not for courtly audiences listening to brilliant executants , though he did make some essays in the three-upper-part style associated with the Ferrarese ladies , notably the exquisite ‘ Hor chi Clori ’ in his Sixth five-part book ( 1594 ) , and he must have reckoned on good performers to tackle the chromaticisms of ‘ O voi che sospirate ’ ( Book II , 1581 ) . |
| 5 | During the-first round , some groups in the 144-strong field needed almost five hours to go round . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |
| 7 | Pat anticipates receiving quite a few requests in the near future . |
| 8 | Pat anticipates receiving quite a few requests in the near future . |
| 9 | Though , as I say , this is very much a matter of personal taste and is not a ‘ rule ’ and there are some patterns in the electronic packs which may tempt me to change my preferences . |
| 10 | Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi . |
| 11 | In addition , declaration forms were missing in some cases in the departmental libraries , or older forms had been torn off and replaced by new forms when full rather than being retained , thus losing the evidential value of the forms . |
| 12 | Few institutions in the western world have proved as resistant to change as the Commons . |
| 13 | Despite the problems we are inclined to accept some homologies in the nervous system , although there is disagreement about how far one should take it . |
| 14 | And could the shop team keep shops open an extra seven and half hours in the best trading week for example ? |
| 15 | The following summary of ideas on stress placement in nouns , verbs and adjectives is an attempt to present a few rules in the simplest possible form . |
| 16 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 17 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 18 | The only monoplane I had flown was a few hours in the 3 A.A.C.U. Magister . |
| 19 | The government argued that ‘ if real progress is to be made in tackling some of the major concentrations of problems , special efforts must be focused on a few cities in the next few years ’ ( HMSO , 1977 , p. 16 ) . |
| 20 | Some objects in the current exhibition have been borrowed from Highclere Castle ( including part of the cache of shards and fragments of wooden sculptures found in a cupboard in 1988 ) and some from the British Museum itself , but many have come from further afield : the Metropolitan , the Boston Museum of Fine Arts , the Detroit Institute of Arts , the Brooklyn Museum , Cleveland , the Copenhagen Glyptotek and the Louvre . |
| 21 | Another major problem for graduates at all levels is the lack of job opportunities : for example , there are now 20,000 university graduates unemployed in Sudan , and for school graduates too there are few opportunities in the formal sector . |
| 22 | More was added to this general picture by the six case-study schools and by some headteachers in the larger survey in response to open questions : |
| 23 | She 's bored and uncertain about her future until encouraged to take a few steps in the outside world . |
| 24 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 25 | Some restaurants in the old town feature musical entertainment while you are dining , including fado and piano music . |
| 26 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 27 | Few words in the social sciences cause such debate as the word ‘ power ’ . |
| 28 | Robert , at a loss , went on a drinking spree in which he spent most of the savings he had accumulated during his first few months in the new country . |
| 29 | The screening takes place in the coming few months in the next stage of a three-year programme . |
| 30 | This case report describes the histological and macroscopic changes seen within a few months in the gastric mucosa of a 28 year old woman patient with upper abdominal symptoms . |