Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lacking nose-wheel steering , directional control is achieved by differential braking , but this was not difficult after a few initial experimental wiggles — although even at the end of the day I still found myself pointlessly pushing the rudder pedals on the corners . |
| 2 | The Socialist French Prime Minister , Edith Cresson , whose government is supported in office by one of the few unreformed Communist parties in Europe , is known for her comments about ‘ little yellow men ’ from Japan . |
| 3 | Kayreddin Hasib , a Jordanian-based Sunni dissident who attended the conference , was described by the Middle East Economic Digest of April 5 as a " potentially significant figure " and " one of the few possible political leaders who could win support in the Iraqi Sunni heartlands " . |
| 4 | At this village near Wedmore , less well known , perhaps , than its Yorkshire namesake , is one of the few complete surviving windmills in the West Country . |
| 5 | The programme will also reveal that Barclays , one of the few major financial organisations willing to talk openly about computer crime , spends £20m every year on computer security . |
| 6 | As one of the few major acoustic companies who are n't trying to emulate anyone else , Lowden 's guitars have great strength of character and thus tend to polarise guitarists into two camps : those who utterly adore them , and those who are left dry-eyed and unmoved . |
| 7 | Duroc had barely heard of the Ancient Adversary , but he knew this entity was one of the few Great Unseen Powers that stood in opposition to the Dark Ones , the extra-dimensional masters to whom Nguyen Seth had dedicated his long life . |
| 8 | Treasury 8.75% 1997 at £97 1/8 to yield 9.48% to redemption is one of the few medium dated gilts still below par . |
| 9 | The mill was built in 1821 and is one of the few surviving working tower mills in the country . |
| 10 | LaserMaster , one of the few surviving proprietary RIP vendors , played this game with their LX-6 RIP which offered 600 by 300 out of a standard Canon SX engine . |
| 11 | Promoted to a senior lectureship in 1973 and to his professorship in German some 10 years later , he was one of the few remaining full-time members of the staff to have witnessed not only the coming of age of the University , but also the massive expansion of the Modern Languages Department and its impressive rise to prominence as an exponent of the applied approach to the teaching of languages , involving a marked shift of emphasis from a near exclusive preoccupation with literary studies in one foreign language to the development of communication skills in at least two . |
| 12 | He described the region as one of the few remaining pristine areas of the world , which must be retained for long term investigation . |
| 13 | Police at checkpoints were ordered by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to prevent Western correspondents from entering Sevastopol , one of the few remaining closed cities of the former Soviet Union . |
| 14 | Sevastopol , one of the few remaining closed cities on former Soviet territory , with access restricted to permit holders , is not expensive by the hyper-inflated standards of Moscow and Kiev , but supplies are bad . |
| 15 | To a certain extent yes , though as one of the few remaining radical bookshops there were few radical publishers to talk to . |
| 16 | In the mid-1630s , John Williams , who as Bishop of Lincoln was one of the few remaining non-Laudian prelates , made public his opposition to his colleagues ' initiative ; he became involved in a heated literary battle on the subject with the staunch Arminian , Peter Heylyn , and following the publication of his work The Holy Table Name and Thing , he was thrown into prison . |
| 17 | Eva Hart , now 87 , is one of the few remaining Titanic survivors . |
| 18 | Wartime service spanned almost the entire Pacific conflict , making it one of the most historically significant of the few remaining Australian Dakotas , the other preserved examples appearing to have had very pedestrian careers in comparison while ‘ SBO was used exclusively for military frontline transport operations , making it a veteran par excellence . |
| 19 | One of the few remaining big tuskers in Assam ( left ) . |
| 20 | Of the few remaining large houses , Mere House which faces the pond is possibly the oldest , thought to be Elizabethan and reputed to have been visited by the ghost of a monk . |
| 21 | There are no easy answers , but unless they can be found Europeans run the very real risk of seriously damaging one of the few remaining natural resources available to them . |
| 22 | Breuer is a gifted and intelligent freelance scientific writer , and in this volume he has produced one of the few substantive sociobiological works to emanate from Continental Europe . |
| 23 | In August 1856 he moved on to Paris , engaging in independent research in the laboratory of Charles-Adolphe Wurtz , then one of the few first-rate chemical laboratories outside Germany . |
| 24 | The Medau Society was formed in 1952 to link together the growing number of people throughout Britain interested in Medau Rhythmic Movement , and to train part-time teachers to supplement the work of the few German trained teachers . |
| 25 | The Galway International winner has n't given up hope of bidding yet again for one of the few big Irish rallies to elude him but describes his chances of being on the start line on Good Friday as ‘ remote ’ . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ One of the first steps taken by the new , so-called Environment City is to take away one of the few longstanding open spaces in the town . |
| 27 | Gloucester is one of the few unspoilt Victorian docks left . |
| 28 | In 1956 , of course , the Conservative party was heading for one of the few post-war political events unequivocally more damaging to it than the current poll-tax furore — the Suez crisis . |
| 29 | With a little bit of orchestration , and the application of a few time-tested psychic tricks , I will soon be ready to steer her into a shocking spur-of-the-moment theological and sexual conversion . |
| 30 | Eventually this ‘ top down ’ approach can lead to the level of a few simple English statements or a small amount of programming code . |