Example sentences of "a few [adj] [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we wanted an internal report er to go to a few selected clients that report would mainly be text . |
| 2 | Despite all this crafty programming , there are still a few rough edges that need to be shaved off the system . |
| 3 | Sir Geoff Mulcahy , the chairman and chief executive , sees a few tentative signs that shoppers are slowly emerging from their long hibernation , but they are doing so very warily . |
| 4 | ‘ He wrecked your act with a few well-chosen words that would have slid straight off your back if anyone else had said them . |
| 5 | If your father has a favourite hobby , gather together a few well-chosen gifts that you know he will like and wrap them in a presentation basket . |
| 6 | I could make a few inspired guesses that the machinery will get , not so much cheaper , although it is getting a bit cheaper , but you 'll get more for the same money — rather like calculators _ they have n't actually got very much cheaper in the last two or three years , but you get more for your fiver . |
| 7 | With a view to aiding the assessment of a patient 's progress there are a few simple guidelines that can be followed ; for cure to be taking place the disease should go from within to without , from organs of greater importance to lesser importance , from above to below and to disappear in the reverse order to their original appearance . |
| 8 | He made for it , taking a short cut through the carpark adjoining a few prefabricated sheds that called themselves the Hawkwood Industrial Estate . |
| 9 | So home for Marcus was a few dangerous objects that were extensions of people , Bill 's ashtray and pipe , Bill 's carving tools , his mother 's rubber gloves , his bed and the shelf in his bedroom with his model Spitfire . |
| 10 | There are a few other initiatives that , for a capital sum of a few million pounds , hold the prospect of bringing forward such a radical transformation of the immediate circumstances of poorer people , and the extent to which they control their own lives . |
| 11 | Badgers also produce a few other noises that are n't vocal but , none the less , are very badgerish and are often the first sign that one is nearby . |
| 12 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 13 | To pick on u u up a few other points that have been made . |
| 14 | His others are Shopping for a Better World and a few other books that were produced . |
| 15 | A few low hovels that had once been homes to river people were now derelict , and an empty building which was once a sailmaker 's and then a barge-builder 's premises now stood empty after its last owner , a steam-traction engineer , foundered in the changing times . |
| 16 | Josie said that she did n't usually get in until around six , but that there were a few extra jobs that she wanted to finish off ; Lucy had the feeling , but did n't say so , that the main point of the exercise was probably to get her out of the way before the slender red-haired woman arrived home . |
| 17 | Yeah , a few Anglo-Saxon ones that yes , they 've probably got already listed ! |
| 18 | I only had a few wee tablets that pump the vein |
| 19 | A theory was evolved by a few influential educationalists that if a child is given a basic training in Laban skills then he will have the essential grounding for any future specialisation he may care to follow in gymnastics , dance or drama . |
| 20 | It shows how little the FBI really understood about film production that their proposals to improve the situation focused on increasing the quantity of production , rather than stimulating a few high-quality pictures that might promote British prestige abroad . |
| 21 | Cadfael turned to give him a long , thoughtful look , and a few white petals that had floated and lodged in the rough cloth of his sleeve caught the stirring of air from the door , and floated free again , riding the draught into the pale , bright sunlight . |
| 22 | There are a few white kids that are talked about but I mean that 's inevitable . |
| 23 | There 's a sensation of well tailored black uniforms rustling in the room and I get the impression from the general atmosphere and a few exchanged looks that this is a contentious point . |
| 24 | It is only in the states of Western Europe , in the countries of the British Commonwealth , in the United States of America , and in a few Latin-American states that government is carried on with due regard to the limitations imposed by a Constitution ; it is only in these states that truly ‘ constitutional government ’ can be said to exist … |
| 25 | If you want to be strong-willed you have to learn a few basic things that people with good self-control and will-power have managed to pick up . |
| 26 | So the criticisms levelled against citation analysis as guide to value in science distil down into a few fragmentary points that any sensible funding body would be more than capable of bearing in mind . |
| 27 | So this song sort of sprang to mind and I could hear it as I wanted it to be and I could also hear a few little modifications that would suit their purposes , too . |
| 28 | But perhaps more typical of European electronics companies were those with revenues of between one billion and a few billion dollars that experienced an ‘ identity crisis ’ in the 1980S . |
| 29 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 30 | The Mercedes was equipped with an electric sunroof , automatic transmission , anti-lock brakes and a few more extras that swelled the price by over £4,000 . |