Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When animals do not fall into a few simple categories , quantitative genetic techniques become more practical . |
| 2 | ‘ But I can pencil in a few other little misdemeanours . |
| 3 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 4 | This might consist of a few simple rules and procedure to control decision-making and conflict , for example . |
| 5 | Half way through the Blackeyes saga , it looks as though we are going to have to make do with a few set pieces of one-to-one hostility . |
| 6 | Yeah the T V could do with a few big ones , alright okay body stopper , they want you to have a T V on and be tempted , depends on what , how it went , to ask them to turn it off but if you ca n't that would upon them then you 'll have to work with it because what you do n't want to be seeing is okay they are there , you 're here and they 're concentrating on this . |
| 7 | But we could all do with a few less stuffed velvet Loch Ness monsters and dismal cafeterias that smell of incontinence . |
| 8 | We could do with a few more young men like Charles . ’ |
| 9 | There are n't that many , but I could do with a few more clothes . ’ |
| 10 | Pook 's Common could do with a few more people , do n't you think ? |
| 11 | Yes that is , yes , could do with a few more mind you , but still , that looks nice there |
| 12 | For the historian of modern urbanization , scores of cities are available for direct inspection , while the ancient historian has to make do with a few fortuitous survivals . |
| 13 | Maybe she should invest in a few more elaborate bio-amendments . |
| 14 | ‘ How do I know what I think till I 've heard what I 've got to say ? ’ they will ask ; and , sitting down at the keyboard , will type in a few hasty half-baked assertions , and let the program nag them into developing a coherent and well-expressed thesis . |
| 15 | Let us look at a few Elizabethan towns in more detail , starting with York , the secular and ecclesiastical capital of Northern England , a county town and large commercial centre . |
| 16 | Before going on to consider more problematic aspects of semantic constituency , let us look at a few more examples of the recurrent semantic contrast test in action . |
| 17 | I will conclude with a few general points about the methodological problems raised by Freeman 's paper . |
| 18 | I need only quote from a few Welsh Office publications : |
| 19 | Save for a few naval battles , the war had never reached the Old World . |
| 20 | So now , save for a few interesting mounds in the field , there is no visible evidence of its existence . |
| 21 | Very little of interest on the technical front , save for a few more bent shaft models . |
| 22 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 23 | Park after a few hundred metres and don your mountain boots for the approach — and all of two minutes . |
| 24 | You could experiment with a few different distortion pedals . |
| 25 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
| 26 | What you fear most is an opponent who will point to a few simple but undeniable facts , and this is why the economists , and above all that wonderful race of men the economic journalists great and small , are such indispensable allies to the politician : they enable the politician to fog up what he is doing , so as to escape the blame and often even criticism for his actions . |
| 27 | As there is no soil at all on this rocky islet vegetation is almost non-existent , but we did come across a few tenacious rock plants growing from the guano in rock crevices . |
| 28 | First he would have to learn about this place , learn about how things worked here before he might start with a few tentative enquiries . |
| 29 | Personal handwritten invitations by the class involved to their own parents will pull in a few more adults . |
| 30 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |