Example sentences of "that [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 2 | Despite churning out reams of PR gobbledygook to a receptive media , a business can find that a few choice words uttered by vitriolic ex-employees can change public perceptions radically . |
| 3 | But wool is a marvellous rug-making material and , provided that a few simple precautions are taken , your oriental rug will last for many years . |
| 4 | Where insects are preserved they seem to occur in large numbers and in variety , so that a few famous localities have yielded a disproportionate number of the fossil species . |
| 5 | My first impression is that a few pissed roadies are raping a girl . |
| 6 | The mother who ‘ ca n't be so cruel ’ as to wake her sleeping baby if he happens to be asleep at the appointed feeding-time , fails to realize that a few such wakings would be all she would have to resort to … |
| 7 | He even suggested that a few such representatives from outside the government might be co-opted on to the State Council , the supreme bureaucratic body beneath the Tsar . |
| 8 | Is it too much to hope that a few other Merseysiders will study his methods , stop waiting for someone else ( usually the Government or the EC ) to bail them out , and demonstrate similar enterprise ? |
| 9 | And indeed it would seem that it was only at about this time , in the Europe of the late-sixteenth century , that a few thoughtful men first began to think seriously about the moral nature of mankind as a whole , as against the older , narrower concept of the moral nature of " ourselves " , God 's chosen people , ranged against " the others " , the barbarians , who were only part men , unnatural monsters , beasts . |
| 10 | To this end it has settled in countries that a few hundred years ago barely knew of the apple 's existence . |
| 11 | Advising fans to sit tight for an eleventh hour opportunity to snap up tickets , Mr Mullan said he was ‘ reasonably confident ’ that a few hundred tickets would be sent back to Derry from other county boards unable to use them . |
| 12 | They are sceptical that a few extra consultants or staff grade appointments will really reduce their hours and complain that the new deal was set up by doctors ' representatives not working in hard pressed specialties . |
| 13 | It appears that a few extra hours of uninterrupted sleep can remedy the situation . |
| 14 | ‘ My friends of the Liberal or progressive party , as they call themselves , ’ wrote Arnold , ‘ are kind enough to reassure us that a few transient outbreaks of rowdyism signify nothing . ’ |
| 15 | With Richard Hill warned for three beefy challenges on the impressive Matt Dawson and Mark Linnett fortunate that a few loose uses of fist and foot went unseen , the atmosphere was anything but festive . |
| 16 | It is possible that a few minor markets did grow slowly from an earlier village but they are difficult to discover . |
| 17 | She said that a few cross words with Riley and Linley did not count for much . |
| 18 | Rather than assuming that a few corrupt workers steal large amounts , it would seem more reasonable to contend that many , if not the majority , of employees regularly take small amounts . |
| 19 | I 'm just sorry that a few more people |
| 20 | We can only surmise that a few basic signalling systems emerged early in evolution and were then modified in subtle ways to meet the unique signalling requirements of different cells . |
| 21 | Back in 1902 that a few local men got together to form the club in a house in Coulson Street , Low Spennymoor . |
| 22 | It is worth remembering that even the highly efficient drugs currently available will not remove all the worms present ; that some cattle nematodes can infect sheep and vice versa ; and that a few infective larvae on the pasture can survive for beyond two years . |
| 23 | Many of the likely readers will have expertise in one or more of the areas described here , and it may appear that a few interesting stories have been excluded . |
| 24 | It was at Jarama that we first saw Derek Gardner 's revolutionary six-wheeled car and it was there , too , that a few silly millimetres deprived Hunt of his first victory of the season , achieved against stern opposition from his team-mate Jochen Mass and a Niki Lauda who had been quite seriously injured in a tractor accident back in Austria and was therefore not entirely fit . |
| 25 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |