Example sentences of "which few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That more than one source for the crystal was involved is suggested by the differing distributions and the manner in which few cemeteries contain both beads and spheres . |
| 2 | In this prologue we discuss some of the questions which few beginners seem to have the courage to ask and yet to which they would surely like some kind of answer . |
| 3 | His letters evince the excitement he felt at undertaking this journey , one which few Europeans had as yet made , and his anticipation of getting plenty of big game hunting on the way . |
| 4 | Therefore a man like Ramsey brought the argument about Christian unity up against the fundamental question of Catholicity versus Protestantism in a way which few others could . |
| 5 | Béroff plays the more spectacular pieces ( such as the ‘ Regard de l'espirit de joie ’ ) with rhythmic energy and sheer bravura which few others have even approached . |
| 6 | [ … ] In the course of attempting to account for such market phenomena as quality differentiation , advertising , or markets in which few producers are to be found [ … ] neo-classical theories were led to conclusions which grossly misinterpret the significance of these phenomena . |
| 7 | In free as well as in pauper apprenticeship corporal punishment was allowed within reason , and the treatment of the " chimney boys " was as notorious as that of the factory children , for in both cases youngsters were being consigned to labour in conditions in which few parents would willingly have placed them . |
| 8 | It seems to me to reduce the passport to what it generally is in practice , a not too efficient identification card , of which few authorities take much real notice . |
| 9 | All of this has been achieved with an inevitability which few batsmen since Bradman have been able to suggest , and in 111 Tests at the end of the 1989–90 series he was just ten runs short of 8,000 at an average of 51 . |
| 10 | The force of such ideas and practices lay partly in their ‘ progressive ’ origins , which few teachers would be prepared to gainsay ; and partly in the authority of those who devised and presented them , whom few would dare to contradict . |
| 11 | First Japanese and other speculators had pushed prices to heights at which few collectors could compete , then the artificial market collapsed and the ensuing confusion kept almost anything of quality off the block . |
| 12 | With the failure of Wyndham 's efforts , the rebellion in England became essentially a movement of Catholic recusants in the north , which few Anglicans could have wanted to see succeed , especially since the Pretender had refused to renounce his religion . |
| 13 | Special competition considerations arise if the products do appear in Annex II , whether they are subject to a common organisation of the market ( which most products now are ) , or a national organisation of the market ( which few products now are ) . |
| 14 | Barnes ( 1990 ) made a recent study of the role of day centres for disabled young people , in which few opportunities were offered for significant decision-making despite the operation of ostensibly progressive policies . |
| 15 | Other world is the half of your world which few mortals enter , for they do not know the way ; and it is ruled by powers of light . |
| 16 | The main prison , into which few outsiders were allowed , was guarded by armed officers . |
| 17 | Upper Framilode is by far the larger and was originally the location of the Purnells ' extensive iron and tinplate works , of which few traces remain , while Lower Framilode consists of just a few cottages , the mill and the Darell Arms . |
| 18 | Kuijken ( ) , as ever , puts musical values first , and in this he reminds me very much of a firstgeneration ‘ authentic ’ recording made by the Collegium Aureum under Schmidt-Garden ( not yet available on CD ) , which similarly involved one textually in a way which few versions can match , even if one is left with the impression that many of the musical solutions may have registered almost as comfortably on modern instruments . |
| 19 | They had also created for themselves a moral environment to which few Englishmen found they could take serious exception . |
| 20 | In 1696 an Act of Parliament " for the Encouragement and Increase of Seamen " had provided that mariners , irrespective of rank , should pay 6d. per month out of their wages to support the Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich which should act as an alternative to the parish relief which few sailors were able to claim even if they wished to do so . |
| 21 | ‘ Throughout his eight and a half years as Labour leader he has shown the sort of courage in reforming the party which few politicians are capable of — and which , it must be said , John Major has never been called on to demonstrate in his effortless , virtually unchallenged glide through the great offices of state . ’ |
| 22 | New attitudes to work and leisure require radically new social and economic policies which few politicians , of the left or right , are prepared to contemplate . |
| 23 | But the central function over most of the period since 1979 has been as apologist , a role which few politicians relish . |