Example sentences of "[art] few [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
| 32 | Most people who notice it at parties are too polite to ask what it is and why I am wearing it , but to the few who do I say ( because I find it embarrassing to explain ) that it is concerned with the story of the sinking of the Bismarck ; and then relish the look of puzzlement on their faces . |
| 33 | Quite unfairly , it was the few who did cause a hiccup in the smooth turnover of the lettings that I remember best . |
| 34 | In Britain , Eastman ( 1984 ) , a social worker , is one of the few who have sought to draw attention to abuse of old people . |
| 35 | The few who do can get them . |
| 36 | Most of those who were killed had been brutally tortured , as were the few who survived abduction or ‘ disappearance ’ . |
| 37 | Typescripts photocopied and distributed that carried the rivulet of dissent from eye to eye for the few who trusted in a future of change and the ultimate destruction of the monolith that controlled their lives . |
| 38 | consoles and design tables and laboratories and workshops is considered , by the few who so jealously guard their knowledge , as information too sensitive to be transmitted to any but those in the topmost reaches of government . |
| 39 | The scene of one of Drachenfels ' most infamous atrocities , this chamber has been shunned by most of the few who have penetrated the Castle . |
| 40 | The ideal of providing an adequate and satisfying secondary education for all ( and not just for the few who were fortunate enough to be able to pass a selection test at 11 ) seemed close to realisation . |
| 41 | The few who , influenced by psychoanalysis and poststructuralism , take a more serious approach to it , tend to address it within an orthodox social cognitivist framework , to treat it as an illustration of larger , more obviously social discursive structure , or to ground it finally in an idealized unconscious subjectivity . |
| 42 | The incompetence of the king , and the arrogance and greed of the Despensers , had so alienated men from the court that none except the few who profited from the king 's favour would fight for him . |
| 43 | Rather than give young children charcoal immediately on presentation , we suggest confining it to the few who develop symptoms — in a dose sufficient to increase elimination of the drug . |
| 44 | He also thinks that we must develop a culture that demands certain standards from all teachers and accords high status to the few who choose to develop their teaching skills further . |
| 45 | Yanaihara Tadao was one of the few who courageously advocated home rule for Korea and even , if necessary , independence . |
| 46 | Success for the few who achieved it was often bought at the cost of Korean ties and identity . |
| 47 | The few jobs that are available are so poorly paid that the few who are offered such employment can not afford to take it as they would n't be able to afford the rent on their new homes . |
| 48 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 49 | The few who discovered this later naturally felt that this part of their training was not helpful . |
| 50 | For it was assumed that the few who were rich and/or well-born were also , morally and politically , " the best " . |
| 51 | Yet democracy , both in ancient Greece and in the politics of the past two centuries , has never been achieved without a struggle , and that struggle has always been , in good part , a type of class struggle , even if it is very simply characterized , as it was by many Greeks , as a struggle of the many poor against the few who are rich and well-born . |
| 52 | Harold Macmillan and Anthony Eden shared the same reaction ; the young Robert Boothby was one of the few who were disappointed by the Armistice , because he had been too young to fight . |
| 53 | Before the Second World War , virtually the only people able to practise archaeology on a full-time basis were those employed in museums , or the few who had sufficient wealth to be self-financing . |
| 54 | Thirdly , and most important of all in the genesis of Doctor Who , are the people who inspired it — the few who drew the notion of Doctor Who from the seeds of human inventiveness and put them down on paper . |
| 55 | Surprisingly , that is , for mainstream economists , who had assumed that Keynesian economic management would abolish such crashes , but without surprise for the few who had remembered Kondratiev 's ideas . |
| 56 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 57 | So I and the few who had escaped illness enjoyed the beautiful summer weather , with no lessons or discipline at all . |
| 58 | The few who have dealt with this subject from an alternative political standpoint have mainly been liberal Conservatives , concerned to meet the needs of casualties of the social system but suspicious of the claims of the state to regulate many aspects of our lives . |
| 59 | The few who have attempted to query appointments at a local level have been met by shocked indignation and comments like : ‘ The fact of the matter is that the applications that we receive from doctors from the subcontinent leave much to be desired . ’ |
| 60 | You 're one of the few who was aware of their existence . |