Example sentences of "a few [noun] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many other substances were screened for antiviral activity and a few drugs with limited clinical application were found . |
| 2 | A few birds with long beaks were poking around by the water : how come they stay so clean when they 're always delving in the mud ? |
| 3 | The county-border area contains only a few villages with old English names like Potton , Tadlow , Wrestlingworth and Gamlingay . |
| 4 | Nor was it powerful enough , outside of a few streets with Prussian generals ' names , to force through a genuinely modern network of boulevards . |
| 5 | Ed Hawtin , from west Oxfordshire , has recently returned from West Germany , where Great Britain raised a few eyebrows with impressive runs in two and four man bobs . |
| 6 | Urquhart opened the exercise book and skimmed through a few pages with furious concentration before stuffing it in his coat pocket with a grunt of satisfaction . |
| 7 | There might be , he concedes , a few problems with small firms with inadequate or non-existent treatment facilities on site . |
| 8 | It is obvious from these figures that the BDDA in its early days did not represent the deaf and dumb population , but that the Association merely brought together the elite of educated deaf-mutes with some hearing people — mainly missioners and a few others with personal interest in the spiritual and social welfare of the deaf and dumb . |
| 9 | So too , if we consult the Report of Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Constabulary , 1975 ( or almost any other year for that matter ) we find ourselves assailed within the space of only a few paragraphs with repeated references to The report was generous enough to remind us that the personal violence over which so much ink had been spilled amounted to less than 4 per cent of known serious crime . |
| 10 | Making out it was all so serious , instead of a few smokes with other kids and a little shop-lifting to pay for it . |
| 11 | A few polluters with ineffective treatment processes discharging effluents into otherwise clean rivers can make a patch ‘ difficult ’ . |
| 12 | A few bookcases with glazed doors were arranged around the walls leaving a central space for a table and chairs . |
| 13 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |
| 14 | Comparison of data adjusted by the prescribing unit and the new index with authority averages produced no significant differences except for in a few practices with skewed age-sex demography . |
| 15 | When they reach the borders of their territory , they take a few steps with lowered hindquarters so that long grass passing between their back legs rubs against this gland and acquires a smell that even a human nose can easily detect . |
| 16 | A cast on , a few rows with waste yarn , one row with the cord and one row of main yarn are all that needs to be knitted before the garter carriage takes over . |