Example sentences of "but [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Most medieval English dies are similar , but the few ancient dies which have survived differ somewhat in shape ( more conical , no square projection ) and in metal ( bronze rather than iron ) . |
| 3 | There is no doubt that much remains to be learnt about the technology of the period , but the few specialist studies that have been made are enlightening . |
| 4 | They were far enough from the city for the sounds of insurrection to be too faint to disturb anyone but the few scrawny goats which wandered listlessly around their enclosures . |
| 5 | But the few houses they passed seemed to have their doors locked and bolted and their windows shuttered . |
| 6 | There were not many trees in the poorer part of the city but the few trees there were , preserved to give shade in the little squares , were full of birds . |
| 7 | In many countries , regional and national newspapers report on these prisoner cases — the Slovenian Catholic weekly Druzina , the French national daily Le Monde , and the Pakistani daily The Muslim , to name but a few . |
| 8 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 9 | Most continue ripening in store until ready for the table , but a few varieties must be brought into the warm for a few days before they are ready to eat . |
| 10 | Moreover , it was but a few minutes walk from the Junior School ( Roslyn ) , and only a little further from the senior school ( Westmount High ) to which Esther and Leonard were duly sent . |
| 11 | Yet another is Lorca 's love of the city , a curious contradiction of his anti-industrialism , which only comes out explicitly in Leonard 's devotion to Montreal , though he soon became snared by New York , London , Paris , Athens and Los Angeles , to name but a few of his favourite cities . |
| 12 | Between 1959 and 1969 poetry production was to triple , thanks to the industrious imagination of such as Phyllis Webb , Eli Mandel , Daryl Hine and not least that battery-hen of poets , Irving Layton , to name but a few . |
| 13 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 14 | Altering the look of a step can involve changing the time signature or tempo to which it is danced , the direction it takes or a change of épaulement , its quality and expressiveness , to name but a few . |
| 15 | These are but a few of the hazards that can wreck the look and expression of the choreographic design . |
| 16 | We name but a few — will your local brewery be next ? |
| 17 | However , once the Revolution closed much of the USSR behind its invisible Iron Curtain , both bureaucratic difficulties and high expense effectively put these mountains out of reach to all but a few fortunate climbers . |
| 18 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 19 | The would-be island , now with hermetically sealed borders and excluding all but a few tourists , is full of noises . |
| 20 | But a few days before Khrushchev was summoned back to Moscow from the Black Sea for his political execution , Mr Voronov received an unexpected invitation to go hunting with Brezhnev . |
| 21 | But a few locals regretted her presence , and Lee Kuan Yew knows it . |
| 22 | The extent and depth of religious belief is notoriously difficult to estimate at any time in any country , but a few general statistics can be applied reliably to the peasantry of 1922 in areas like Belorussia , Kursk , and Tambov . |
| 23 | This is a fantastic place for birdwatchers — puffin , falcon , raven , gannet , guillemot and cormorants , to name but a few , make their homes along the coastline and on its islands for part of the year . |
| 24 | But a few miles south-west of these peaks are the Low Tatras . |
| 25 | The Allied Bomber Campaign , the Dambusters Raid , the liberation of Rome , the Battle of the Bulge and of course D-Day to name but a few . |
| 26 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
| 27 | The V8 was put on ice when Lotus went through one of its regular periods of financial cramp in 1981 — but a few years later its key features were sold to GM in the shape of the LT5 engine for the Corvette ZR1 . |
| 28 | The part-time element of a battalion is made up from all sections of the community : farmers , solicitors , factory workers , office managers , garage mechanics and the unemployed , to name but a few , alI united by the common desire to see their country rid of terrorism . |
| 29 | Over the years you get called all kinds of things , but a few weeks ago I reached new heights . |
| 30 | He said that ending the agreement would jeopardise the future of small or family-run shops , lead to fewer books being published and increase prices of all but a few best sellers . |