Example sentences of "[art] few [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did a spirit of affectionate remembrance obtain among the few whom Ursula felt obliged to entertain afterwards at Swans ' Meadow . |
| 2 | The hoax warnings , the bombs which fail to explode and the few which do are undoubtedly disrupting normal life , especially in London . |
| 3 | But most of the ions and electrons are deflected , and of the few which penetrate most do so up the magnetotail . |
| 4 | A kind and intelligent psychiatrist ( one of the few we ever saw outside the hospital ) came to talk to us about schizophrenia — the most feared mental illness of all . |
| 5 | The Slavs were one of a score of peoples who ravaged the Roman world , but they are one of the few whose cultural identity has remained intact . |
| 6 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 7 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 8 | Not those , but the few who respect silence , who respect the world , who are prepared to listen , who are prepared to change , who are aware of human weakness and vulnerability , who are aware of the imperatives of life and the imperatives of the work in hand . |
| 9 | As a fellow international lawyer has put it , Akehurst is one of the few who succeeded . |
| 10 | The Worksop trainer was one of the few who missed seeing the gelding , bought with another yearling for £3,250 , pull six lengths clear . |
| 11 | Yet among those in his camp , the few who cared , there was an edginess . |
| 12 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 13 | The few who maintained they had had no benefit from their training were all apprentices . |
| 14 | Ehrenburg reported it , and he is one of the few who described Modigliani in serious mood , not merely hitting the bottle or making a scene . |
| 15 | Those who are most adept at wielding the bow are not always in control of the pen , and the few who possess equal facility in both often lack the will to write . |
| 16 | Here and there a few barricades were erected but they were defended half-heartedly by the few who manned them . |
| 17 | Soldier of Fortune was one of the few who published my pictures ; I had a cover . |
| 18 | A slim , wiry youth , he was one of the few who could claim a ‘ middle-class ’ upbringing . |
| 19 | Pride in the nation 's system of government , once shared by all , has degenerated into complacency about its superiority , believed only by the few who exercise the near despotic powers that its outmoded forms have given them . |
| 20 | This remarkable man is one of the few who … have been , in their own lifetime , their country 's pride . |
| 21 | He was one of the few who did n't give the company a song . |
| 22 | Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date . |
| 23 | One of the points that distinguishes Green from many of the artists who made prints of the Lake District at this period was the fact that he was one of the few who prepared and drew on the plates and etched the images himself . |
| 24 | Now the few who do are banding together |
| 25 | I am afraid he 's the laughing-stock of the court , despised by most and pitied by the few who listen to his constant pleas of innocence . |
| 26 | The few who did get through , mostly mature if determined ladies carrying packets of tea , butter and biscuits , did not create any serious inconvenience . |
| 27 | Clive Milton was one of the few who found that the open life did have its virtues : |
| 28 | Working with a different pianist each night provided an infinite variety of the best and worst musicians in the country , and among the best were the few who listened with a different ear , who could lose the rest of the world and let voice and instrument be controlled by a joint spirit . |
| 29 | The few who tried and succeeded stand out ; most were defeated by the land itself , their lack of funds and deep local resistance to change . |
| 30 | Paisley , one of the few who could grasp the larger issues brought into focus by the assassination attempt at Tully-West , unfortunately was absent at Westminster . |