Example sentences of "with [adv] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accompaniment sounds very well when it is hummed , with perhaps a few words here and there while the solo part rests , or to join with it at a point of culmination . |
| 2 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 3 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 4 | The fact that most of the rainforest is uninhabited , with only a few pockets of indigenous communities , makes exploitation attractive . |
| 5 | An industrial salesperson who sells into one industry may deal with only a few customers in a restricted geographical area . |
| 6 | This may range from small areas of earthworks within or at one end of a settlement , to large areas of earthworks with only a few farms and cottages in use today . |
| 7 | I told him and we reached the CHAB studios with only a few moments to settle Mr Murray before the microphone and be ready for the red light signifying we were ‘ on the air ’ . |
| 8 | Most of them had already breakfasted and he shared the dining-room with only a few others . |
| 9 | I choose patterns with only a few passes with the lace carriage because all the time this carriage is in operation no inches ( sorry centimetres ) are being added to the length of the garment . |
| 10 | The last meeting was held on Oki premises a few weeks ago with only a few friends of the family in attendance . |
| 11 | One of the conditions is such that it would be advisable for solicitor shareholders ( particularly in a company with only a few shareholders ) to appoint in their will only a solicitor or solicitors as personal representative in respect of their shares . |
| 12 | Searching a small space , with only a few entities in it , does n't ordinarily feel like a creative process . |
| 13 | The bride 's mother takes her seat last of all with only a few minutes to spare . |
| 14 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |
| 15 | It 's not as though he 's a tourist with only a few hours . |
| 16 | On an arable farm with only a few cattle kept to make manure , little provision would be made for these animals , but there would be one or more barns , stables and shelters for carts . |
| 17 | The next day , although three of the team made the descent by mid-afternoon , the rest spent three or four hours walking after dark , with only a few torches between them to light the way . |
| 18 | If you are a small man , with only a few pounds of surplus weight , and are in a big hurry to lose it . |
| 19 | With only a few islands of relief the Government did very badly in by-elections front the autumn of 1933 to the spring of 1935 . |
| 20 | And with only a few places available each year , it 's like a bottleneck near the top , and the harder it becomes . |
| 21 | All our bookshops continued to sell ‘ The Satanic Verses ’ and , with only a few exceptions where serious threats had been made , the book was always on display . |
| 22 | The problem is , of course , that , with only a few exceptions , there is no unique relation between an industry 's inputs of imported materials or components and its exports . |
| 23 | The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent . |
| 24 | In Britain , fertility fell surprisingly uniformly over the different regions of the country ( Brass and Kabir 1978 ) with only a few exceptions ( Woods 1987 ) . |
| 25 | With only a few exceptions all those aged 18 or over are liable to pay the same basic charge . |
| 26 | He is said to have been deprived of the royal household and nobles with the counsel and consent of all his people , and to have fled from Bamburgh with only a few companions , which would suggest an almost outright rejection . |
| 27 | Since 1959 , when the Social Democrats embraced capitalism , German politics has been a large clustering around the centre , with only a few dissenters on the margins . |
| 28 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 29 | As ever , we must balance the temptation to introduce such rights willy-nilly against the unreasonable cost burden that might rest increasingly on employers , especially those with only a few employees . |
| 30 | A poll showed that Mr Da Silva won it , burying the myth that as an ex-factory worker with only a few years schooling he is unqualified for the presidency . |