Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] one [prep] [art] few " in BNC.

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1 And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her .
2 He hated having to trust anyone , but Hitch was one of the few he did .
3 Zahedi was one of the few men in the court with his own standing .
4 Darwin was one of the few to speculate that the law of succession of types was best explained in terms of the constraints placed upon evolution by the major geographical barriers defining the continents .
5 Rush was one of the few out there who did himself credit .
6 In the whole sorry saga , West Bromwich Albion were one of the few parties to emerge with dignity .
7 Harold Macmillan and Anthony Eden shared the same reaction ; the young Robert Boothby was one of the few who were disappointed by the Armistice , because he had been too young to fight .
8 Chemicals group Courtaulds was one of the few to register any positive movement .
9 The silver-haired Dubcek was one of the few figures of authority in Slovakia .
10 Throughout that decade Vox were one of the few British guitar ‘ names ’ , and certain models from that era have become much sought-after by collectors .
11 Fuchs was one of the few public figures who supported Beeren publicly at the time of the debacle over the restoration of the Barnett Newman painting ‘ Who 's afraid of Red , Yellow and Blue III ’ .
12 If Hull was one of the low points of the season , then the derby game against Hartlepool was one of the few highlights .
13 Boyle was one of the few Tories for whom Crosland had any time .
14 Yanaihara Tadao was one of the few who courageously advocated home rule for Korea and even , if necessary , independence .
15 Compact and composed full-back who made a superb debut against New Zealand in August , Theo was one of the few successes against Australia .
16 His father was a California shaper and Richie was one of the few top ASP surfers who shaped his own boards .
17 Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’
18 William Hutton was one of the few who worked in both factory and cottage as a child , for he was first employed in a silk mill in Derby before becoming apprenticed to his framework knitter uncle .
19 While the rest of Romania was in utter chaos , Poiana Brasov was one of the few snowcovered ski-bargains around .
20 Mr Toubon was one of the few Right-Wing politicians not to criticise the pyjama-striped columns of Daniel Buren erected in the Palais Royal by Mr Lang — but he did tell the artist they were not his favourite work .
21 For a few seconds that stony-visaged politician looked kindly and I realised that , apart from his mistress , Benjamin was one of the few people Wolsey really loved .
22 Emily Davies was one of the few to argue that housekeeping took up little time and that women could in fact combine work and marriage , and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson belonged to an even more select band who put this advice into practice .
23 Preston was one of the few male friends William had who did not teach at a university .
24 AB : I would be a fool if I did n't say Schenker was one of the few analysts we can rate seriously .
25 In the mid-1630s , John Williams , who as Bishop of Lincoln was one of the few remaining non-Laudian prelates , made public his opposition to his colleagues ' initiative ; he became involved in a heated literary battle on the subject with the staunch Arminian , Peter Heylyn , and following the publication of his work The Holy Table Name and Thing , he was thrown into prison .
26 Severn Trent was one of the few to move into positive territory , up 2p to 484p .
27 Although Crawford was one of the few Test cricketers to play in spectacles it would seem that his eyesight was not so poor that he could not be used by the military .
28 Clive Milton was one of the few who found that the open life did have its virtues :
29 Of his contemporaries Eliot was one of the few who not merely looked to a culturally united Europe but knew personally many of the writers and intellectual leaders on the Continent .
30 As Wayne Gossage has said : " Patricia Knapp was one of the few people in the inner circle of the library-college vanguard who was in any way critical " ( Gossage 1975 : 8 ) and this has been a sad weakness in a movement which , with its enthusiasm and provocative reversal of traditional priorities , has aroused much interest and thought amongst educators , librarians and administrators .
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