Example sentences of "[is] one [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Telecommunications Plc said yesterday it plans to start selling satellite dishes and receivers by Christmas , making the move since it is one of the few activities it is allowed to pursue in the entertainment arena : ‘ We see it as a very important part of our wish to be part of the converging area of telephony , entertainment and computers , ’ the company told Reuter ; the company will reportedly source the equipment from two unidentified UK companies , in a move that is a significant threat to Amstrad Plc , whose shares fell tuppence to 31p . |
| 2 | Leisure is one of the few industries that is growing . |
| 3 | Gambon , 51 , is one of the few actors big enough to play the mountainous Maxwell . |
| 4 | This willingness to forgive past wrongs is one of the few signs of hope for this benighted province ; but it is not enough to bring peace . |
| 5 | It is one of the few diseases which medicine could attack before the Second World War , by passive immunization . |
| 6 | Asthma is one of the few diseases on the increase in Britain said Simon Hughes , the party 's environment spokesman . |
| 7 | But if today Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the few women to have been admitted to the art historical canon under the banner of ‘ greatness ’ , in her day she never won the critical acclaim she sought . |
| 8 | These days they appear infrequently , but the prospect of a shopping expedition is one of the few things that are guaranteed to bring them out . |
| 9 | It is called Macrae 's Monument and is one of the few things left in Ayrshire to remind us of a very remarkable man called James Macrae . |
| 10 | Staring is one of the few things frogs are good at . |
| 11 | ‘ It is one of the few things in which I excel , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 12 | We charge the highest rate in the country for issuing fire certificates which is one of the few things which we 're actually allowed to charge , and we charge more than virtually any other authority in this country . |
| 13 | ‘ Vicky adores the dog and she is one of the few things she is interested in . |
| 14 | It is one of the few letters from Theo that we have , and a remarkably frank one . |
| 15 | This hostelry has a county-wide following and is one of the few pubs in England that still has no bar and serves its wonderful beer straight from the barrels in the cellar . |
| 16 | It is one of the few pubs in London where the landlord and his staff have mastered the art of pulling a really good pint of bitter : one with a creamy head which lasts right down the glass . |
| 17 | Nevertheless he is one of the few batsmen available to South Africa who has a proven record of being able to put big hundreds together and this is a prime requirement for Test match cricket . |
| 18 | It is one of the few villages that has changed position over the years . |
| 19 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 20 | German measles ( rubella ) is one of the few viruses that can infect the baby in the first 12 weeks . |
| 21 | ‘ The bottom line ’ , says one western ambassador , ‘ is that he is one of the few leaders on this continent who appears to care about his people and we therefore trust him to do the right thing . ’ |
| 22 | WALTER SMITH will take his injury-ravaged squad out to lunch today aware that , in the present , stricken climate at Ibrox , food poisoning is one of the few afflictions not to have hit his players before their European Champions League tie with FC Brugge on Wednesday , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 23 | Birmingham is one of the few cities where any attempt at sensible provision has been made . |
| 24 | He is one of the few engineers or designers still at Browns Lane to have worked with Sir William Lyons , the company 's founder and whose principles still provide much of its inspiration . |
| 25 | Mr Johnston , who stood on a ‘ Save Our Townlands ’ ticket in the council elections of 1977 , said : ‘ It is one of the few powers which councils have left that they can enforce the format for local addresses . |
| 26 | Indeed rhinoceros horn is one of the few materials regarded as precious in the past not to appear inherently attractive to most modern observers . |
| 27 | The Secretary of State is one of the few Ministers for whom I have any respect . |
| 28 | He is one of the few writers whose books are read and loved by people in the East and the West . |
| 29 | With a turnover of about £250m , Virgin Records is one of the few independents left in the music business . |
| 30 | That decentralized state structures serve to reduce the scope of welfare state expansion and socialist incumbency is one of the few findings in the comparative public policy literature on which there is near unanimity ( Castles , 1985 , p. 120 ) . |