Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blood is contained in three cylinders ( each about the size of a panatella cigar ) which run the length of it . |
| 2 | It records the developing relationship between the leader and the follower and teaches each about the other . |
| 3 | To make the arms , roll several small balls of icing , each about the size of an olive , and flatten them to 5mm ( ¼inch ) thickness . |
| 4 | Make six small balls out of the red marzipan trimmings , each about the size of a pea , and press them gently into the red base , spacing evenly apart . |
| 5 | Newquay and Ilfracombe are each about an hours drive and worth a visit . |
| 6 | And they 're each worth a hundred pounds . |
| 7 | Working on a conveyor belt or as a human cog in a vast industrial machine does little for a sense of personal fulfilment . |
| 8 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 9 | It was the merest trickle , four cubic metres a day according to Bertie , precious little for a monastery of thirty monks and related workers arid visitors . |
| 10 | Condensed it sounded very little for an afternoon 's talking but simultaneously it was a surprising amount from a man who had started the day denying everything . |
| 11 | His flashy marketing campaigns have done little for the success of Midland 's new products . |
| 12 | It did little for the image of a man who has been part of the backbone of the team for so long , and was playing in his eighty-seventh Test . |
| 13 | Timeshare is not normally a solution SAVE would recommend for a historic house because so much of the expenditure goes on pure marketing , leaving too little for the building , but where it is well organized the outcome may be satisfactory . |
| 14 | If the room be too mean , and too little for the books ; if it be too much out of repair ; if the situation be inconvenient ; if the access to it be dishonourable ; is the library keeper to answer for it ? … |
| 15 | Your mag promotes and encourages all this ; reading an analysis of Joe Satriani 's playing , for example , probably does little for the confidence of most readers ( I myself found it quite stretching at first ! ) . |
| 16 | But 3p off a litre of petrol will do little for the men at Ford who need their jobs . |
| 17 | There was little for the crews to do . |
| 18 | That will do little for the Vance-Owen plan 's chances of success and little , therefore , for the vigour of the principles of international conduct . |
| 19 | If a flagrant oversight like this could occur it says little for the prospects of men of lowly status being correctly recorded . |
| 20 | This remarkable volte face did little for the president 's public reputation , was the cause of much scathing comment in the media and , not surprisingly , a poll revealed that 86 per cent of Americans , ‘ had no confidence in the ability of the President to manage the economy ’ . |
| 21 | On a hot day the engine-out rate of climb did little for the blood pressure . |
| 22 | His ministry did little for the more difficult problem of the ‘ residuum ’ . |
| 23 | This may have prevented some children of artisans falling into poverty as a result of the decline of skilled occupations , but it did little for the lowest stratum who were always the most vulnerable to severe poverty . |
| 24 | As everyone was by then in a state of complete exhaustion they did little for the next two or three days except sleep . |
| 25 | Maybe it has been charging too little for the uncertainties involved , but that is another matter . |
| 26 | Until recently he believed that ‘ the magnificent State of Britain' had done little for the Science upon which her wealth , power and very existence depended ; except to provide security and freedom in a country its citizens could be proud of , and this had indeed been enough . |
| 27 | ‘ The music scene is very male dominated and there is little for the girls ’ he said . |
| 28 | And to hide the microphone under a table or behind a curtain , while guaranteeing the naturalness of the content , does little for the acoustic quality — and of course raises an issue that President Nixon memorably pioneered . |
| 29 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 30 | The Single European Act , fully in force from 1992 , will be a bonus for business but will do little for the rest of us . |