Example sentences of "[is] one [prep] [art] very few " in BNC.
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1 | This quotation is one of the very few places in his work where he actually mentions soil erosion . |
2 | Portadown is one of the very few Irish Circuits in which an adequate provision is made for the sustentation of Ministers on the spot . ’ |
3 | Richter is one of the very few artists making recordings of standard repertoire who are so awe-inspiring in their comprehensiveness that the long list of comparative versions becomes a virtual irrelevance . |
4 | That policy was reasonable in a buoyant market , but the directors now feel that even capitalisation should discontinue : ‘ Your company is one of the very few in the sector which does not capitalise any interest or other finance costs and has no off-balance sheet accounting of any kind . ’ |
5 | Tanzania is one of the very few countries in Africa that broadcasts in only one African language plus that of the former colonial power . |
6 | This piece of furniture is one of the very few genuine antique pieces in the house , and could well have been an eighteenth-century travelling craftsman 's miniature . |
7 | Judging from the photograph , Joseph Noel Paton 's Crimean War weepie ‘ Home ’ is one of the very few narrative pictures which might be up to the standard of this ideal exhibition . |
8 | It is one of the very few search firms whose results are published in Kompass , which reveals not only the firm 's rapid rise in turnover but a striking rate of return on capital employed , indicating the potentially very profitable nature of the headhunting business . |
9 | It is one of the very few institutions where the shared goals overcome nationalist or racial considerations . |
10 | L'Appel is one of the very few Protestant magazines in French-speaking Africa , and there are plans to make it monthly . |
11 | Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ . |
12 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
13 | Prostatitis is one of the very few conditions for which doctors may sometimes recommend more sex . |
14 | It is one of the very few creatures in the world that can kill by electrocution . |
15 | I 've heard hundreds of judges in the last few years and Mr is one of the very few who , in , in every picture delivers a very picture . |
16 | Durham is one of the very few ecclesiastical buildings in England to retain its original clerestory windows ( as can be seen in Fig. 294 of the exterior ) . |
17 | It is one of the largest law faculties in the United Kingdom , and is one of the very few to be recognised by the Universities Funding Council as a Grade 5 ( ‘ international excellence ’ ) centre of research . |
18 | The Dornoch Firth is one of the very few areas around the British Isles given a Grade A classification for shellfish purity . |