Example sentences of "[conj] one [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 2 | The hotel , catering and tourist industry is the second largest employer in the United Kingdom , a major contributor to the balance of payments , and one of the few industries which is showing , and will continue to show , real growth . |
| 3 | and one of the few movies where he 's not going around shouting he was drinking , but he was n't shouting |
| 4 | For the first time , an entirely independent body had uncovered a direct statistical link between Britain 's biggest nuclear power station and one of the few types of cancer which displayed a clear pathway back to radiation exposure . |
| 5 | The reserve of Folkstumyren is on Dovrefjell and , as the name suggests , is a large mire or marsh and one of the few places in Norway where cranes breed . |
| 6 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 7 | Sotheby 's open the Impressionist season with Matisse 's ‘ Fatma , la mulatresse ’ painted in 1912 and one of the few pictures of this period likely to come on the market . |
| 8 | I do n't care what you say , they really are marvellous creatures and one of the few animals in God 's world that do absolutely nothing but good . |
| 9 | The Israelis , fielding five international masters and two FIDE masters against Bayern 's six grandmasters , went down by the narrow margin of 7–5 after IM Leonid Zaid ( a recent arrival from the USSR and one of the few men alive with a plus score against Kasparov ) shocked the Germans by defeating Kindermann and Bischoff . |
| 10 | When the idea of a Royal Commission was in circulation , lawyers within the ranks of the Government , notably Sam Silkin , the Attorney General and one of the few front-benchers on either side to have taken a close interest in penal reform , and Alex Lyon , a Minister of State at the Home Office , pressed for the opportunity to be grasped to make an authoritative assessment of the arguments for a public prosecution service independent of the police . |
| 11 | ( 1983 ) and one of the few volumes in its field is Herington ( 1984 ) . |
| 12 | The spatial complexity and dramatic lighting of the staircase at Windsor had been achieved by May on a smaller scale at the earlier Eltham Lodge , Kent , one of the quintessential Restoration houses , built in 1664 for Sir John Shaw , and one of the few buildings by the architect to survive . |
| 13 | ‘ The truth is men like gadgets , they like to control their environment , ’ points out Dr Margaret Shotton , author of Computer Addiction ? and one of the few academics to have taken a serious look at video game culture . |
| 14 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |
| 15 | I realize that is an admission of cowardice , but one of the few consolations of approaching middle age is the fact that one no longer objects to having to admit a weakness . |
| 16 | But one of the few countries he has not designed for is his homeland Hungary . |
| 17 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 18 | In 1835 , as one of the few surveyors with geological knowledge , he was seconded to work with ( Sir ) Henry de la Beche [ q.v. ] to add geological data to the Cornish OS sheets . |
| 19 | As one of the few insurgents with military experience he was a valuable recruit . |
| 20 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 21 | As it is , he emerged as one of the few Democrats to have had a ‘ good war ’ . |