Example sentences of "that [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result , at least in Nikol'skaia volost' , was that the few literates from the old regime were starting to occupy the best bureaucratic jobs and to run parish-pump economics and politics in ways barely supervised from above and in fact quite inimical to the aspirations of the guberniia officials . |
| 2 | The idea was that the few men in the University who could read the original language of the Edda and the Sagas should group together with those who wished to learn , and read their way through the principal texts . |
| 3 | She 'd told Dot there 'd got to be the ordinary people too so that the few could be visibly valiant . |
| 4 | In an official statement , the BRE said that the few cases of rot it knew about were in every case directly attributable to rising damp or to rain penetration : |
| 5 | Wagstaff argues that the few studies which do appear to show modest improvement in recall under hypnosis failed to have control groups which were equally encouraged to remember . |
| 6 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 7 | It was said that the few cabin passengers on board sailed under very different conditions . |
| 8 | For , as the report went on to show , the problem is not that manufacturers employ too few people , but that the few people whom they do employ produce much less than their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For it was assumed that the few who were rich and/or well-born were also , morally and politically , " the best " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then , pretending for a moment that he was back there , he would turn round and face the back of his cage , open his wings , and glide down the few feet to where his food lay on the ground , pretending that it was prey and that the few feet was hundreds of feet , and that he could feel strong winds on his wings and was an adult eagle , and free , free to fly where he liked . |
| 13 | Each tag will have to hold at least the information : This will mean that the few home addresses or home buckets which have large numbers of synonyms will have to allocate a lot of space for these tags . |
| 14 | He said that the few holes they had dug and refilled would not affect his crop and , more importantly , they were the best ‘ scarecrows ’ he 'd ever known ! |
| 15 | I am committed to ensuring that the few incompetent and dishonest members of our profession are rooted out . |
| 16 | Everyone here seemed busy and it was apparent that the few gipsies still remaining in this part of the forest were on the move . |
| 17 | It 's the same in every situation , is n't it , that the few |
| 18 | What the anthropologist Jacques Maquet knew was that a few weeks after finishing this sombre painting , Rothko committed suicide . |
| 19 | The basic idea is that a few parameters are turned into a smooth curve by a standardised computation . |
| 20 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 21 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 22 | ‘ It seems unfair that a few farmers should have to carry the cost of the consequences of what is after all a national policy . |
| 23 | Not that a few really bold gestures would come amiss . |
| 24 | One senses that a few bowling attacks are likely to feel the frustration of Smith as he works out his disappointment at missing the latter stages of the World Cup . |
| 25 | Where insects are preserved they seem to occur in large numbers and in variety , so that a few famous localities have yielded a disproportionate number of the fossil species . |
| 26 | It is perhaps surprising , with Healings ' huge mill in nearby Tewkesbury , that a few mills such as Northway and particularly Aston , managed to function for as long as they did . |
| 27 | There is a carnival spirit abroad in contemporary Italian writing , with a lot of masks being worn , but a depressing sense that a few of them have much to hide . |
| 28 | Some would argue that a few predators would only increase the excitement of climbing and walking , and that we should reintroduce some extinct species among our hills and glens . |
| 29 | Having seen the loan situation from both sides of the fence it is essential that a few rules are followed to keep the arrangement sweet . |
| 30 | Mr. Eames will no doubt be pleased to hear that a few foxhunters are killed every year in falls . |