Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was still crying when I put on my boots and picked up my kitbag ; and after a few desperate embraces I burst out into the stars and the snow — the constellations of snow , the blizzard of stars . |
| 2 | The last Elf army departs from the Old World , leaving behind a few hardy colonists who refused to go . |
| 3 | Full-contact , as it is.generally known , was the brainchild of a few martial artists who were tired of the controlled sparring methods allowed in karate and taekwondo . |
| 4 | Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word . |
| 5 | The BEA also looked carefully at the possibility of importing plant and materials , but ( with steel prices significantly higher in the USA and Europe and considerable difficulties in obtaining foreign exchange ) they confined themselves to importing only a few specialist components which were causing serious delays in the programme . |
| 6 | I do n't know how much they gave , but I do know that it , it , it came into a , a few hundred pounds which is a lot of money in those days you know , when you 're talking about nineteen sixteen . |
| 7 | There Roman time they , well as you know yourself a few hundred years they hope to find er nearly half of the world |
| 8 | After a few hundred yards it crosses a road and indeed has become a road , which we followed for two miles . |
| 9 | You must concentrate on a dairy and maybe a few tender crops we could never grow up north . |
| 10 | The slopes which produce these prized vines are generally east-facing , but in a few specific cases they are exposed in northern and southern directions . |
| 11 | But with a few well-chosen books you can know where to look for the information you need . |
| 12 | While the inclination may vary from a modest rise to a mountainside , there are a few golden rules you can follow . |
| 13 | The RISC I instruction set contains a few simple operations which operate on registers . |
| 14 | By following a few simple guidelines it is possible to establish a very productive breeding programme . |
| 15 | However , in saying that there are a few Irish players who will be disappointed at not being selected . |
| 16 | ‘ There are quite a few archaeological sites Ah 'd like to have a look at while Ah 'm here . ’ |
| 17 | Wolfe and his opponent Montcalm were mortally wounded in the small-scale encounter of a few thousand men which affected the history of North America as decisively as Plassey affected the history of India . |
| 18 | Then , in the space of eighteen months , from commanding a regiment of a few thousand men he was to rise to be an Army Commander with over half-a-million at his behest . |
| 19 | This is all to the good but there are a few bare bones we should like you to ‘ gnaw on ’ just in case complacency sets in ! |
| 20 | There were a few young men who developed female characteristics , unconsciously perhaps at first but certainly consciously when they became aware of the power that these gave them . |
| 21 | In the oceans , too , as we saw , the turnover of life can be prodigious , but except in the mangroves and a few other places there are no big and permanent plants ; the only complex , permanent living architecture in the oceans is provided by the coral reefs . |
| 22 | At 60 seconds it was too long — PTGI wanted one 30 seconds long — but after editing out the product shots and making a few other amendments it was suitable . |
| 23 | There were a few dark places my parents liked to go into besides under their covers in bed . |
| 24 | If you look through the components lists of a few recent projects you will no doubt find some that only use common components , but most seem to use at least one or two ‘ specials ’ . |
| 25 | The pavement had been much repaired , and it was difficult to synchronise his steps so that the middle of each foot fell exactly on the cracks between the paving stones , but with some concentration and a few judicious half-steps he managed it ; then he came to a long blue-grey line of asphalt where a pipe had obviously been repaired , and walked along that instead free from the worry of the paving stones between the cracks . |
| 26 | Fitzpatrick , an All Black hooker of Irish stock , has a small problem with a few misshapen teeth which had inadvertently got enwrapped around an Irishman 's knuckles in the course of the first encounter . |
| 27 | If it is re-written ( without the decimal equivalent ) but this time extended through a few complete cycles something else emerges . |
| 28 | I held them off with steelies and stones , and they fired back with air-guns , and for a while it was quite exciting , but then Mrs Clamp came with the weekly messages and threatened to call the police , and after calling her a few nasty names they left . |
| 29 | In a few limited cases we " can actually try things out in the laboratory or with an engineering model . |
| 30 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |