Example sentences of "of [art] few [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few creditable responses of the outside world in this dismal war has been the provision of food and medical help . |
| 2 | The more competitors we have , the more the basic raw material of popular is presented in bland supermarket-commodity ways , the more the NME , by dint of the few extra degrees of vim , suss and humour it puts into its coverage , will seem different from everything else . |
| 3 | CAP has so far failed to tackle the disadvantages or to help to secure the benefits of the few comparative advantages of the DRAs . |
| 4 | Motability has been one of the few established successes of a mixed economy . |
| 5 | Volk & Welt , one of the few major publishers of the former East Germany still on the books of the Treuhand , has finally been privatised in a token DM1 buyout led by its managing director Dietrich Simon . |
| 6 | ONE OF THE few environmental benefits of global warming has been the drowning of the Costa del Sol . |
| 7 | One of the few surviving descriptions of the old house is by Dr. John Wallis who took a scientific interest in the extraordinary chimneys . |
| 8 | Mr Wright is an accomplished narrative historian and has made very good use of the few surviving scraps of contemporary , or nearly contemporary , accounts written by members of the various civilisations . |
| 9 | Planning officer Anthony McGreavey said : ‘ The chapel is one of the few surviving buildings of the first part of the 18th century in the town centre |
| 10 | That item of news is of great interest to me , for if true , it must be one of the few surviving examples of how the church , since the earliest times , has absorbed Pagan shrines into Roman temples into Saxon churches , etc . |
| 11 | During his career at Chapman & Hall he became one of the few close friends of Evelyn Waugh , and in the Second World War took over many jobs in the firm , including that of production manager of the general list . |
| 12 | Working with environmentalist groups , the Guarani Indians argue that Brazil can not afford to lose any more of the few remaining areas of Atlantic rainforest , of which only 5 per cent is intact . |
| 13 | On the wall at the end of the Long Room hangs one of the few remaining copies of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic , which was read aloud at the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916 . |
| 14 | In June , one of the few remaining sections of single line on the main road in Croydon was doubled , that between Aberdeen Road and Parker Road , South End . |
| 15 | A marvellous stylistic contrast to the intricacy and sophistication of these magnificent Court carpets can be seen in the delightful Marby rug — named after the Swedish village in whose church it was found — which is one of the few remaining examples of the first Anatolian or Caucasian rugs to be brought into the West . |
| 16 | The Fund also wished to cut the public wage bill ( increase unemployment ) ; lift import controls ( allowing an influx of consumer goods , thereby undermining local production ) ; privatize national industries at outrageously discounted prices ; raise interest rates ( also hitting the competitiveness of local producers ) ; and remove exchange controls ( ‘ so that a privileged few could legitimately drain the country of the few remaining dregs of foreign reserves ’ ) . |
| 17 | Mid Essex Mental Health Services is one of the few remaining branches of the NHS in the county still answerable directly to its local health authority rather than having trust status . |
| 18 | It was Jack Trumper , one of the few disreputable acquaintances of his Cambridge days . |
| 19 | One of the few circumstantial items of information we have suggests that if the Romans had not destroyed Carthage the Carthaginian intellectuals , like the Greek intellectuals , would have become pro-Roman . |
| 20 | In the UK one of the few recent studies of the impact of educational innovation was undertaken by the Schools ' Council 's Impact and Take-Up Project . |
| 21 | Semer Water is one of the few natural sheets of water of any size in the Dales . |
| 22 | This has been the experience of the Thirties Society in fighting for the retention of the main plan features of the Nag 's Head , one of the few listed pubs of the period . |
| 23 | The only concession to the consumers in this awful , artless building is an attempt to build community spirit into the structure , as if this , one of the few social assets of the working class , would otherwise be given no natural home . |
| 24 | She had , apparently , spent little of the money on herself , had been a dependable benefactress of the few eccentric charities of which she approved , had remembered them in her will , but without egregious generosity , and had left the residue of her estate to him without explanation , admonition or peculiar protestations of affection , although he had no doubt that the words ‘ my dearly beloved nephew ’ meant exactly what they said . |
| 25 | Back in 1646 , one of the few articulate defenders of such deluded people maintained that those who would undertake drainage ‘ have always vilified the Fens , and have misinformed many Parliament men , that all the Fens is a mere quagmire … of little or no value : but those which live in the Fens , and are neighbours to it , know the contrary . ’ |
| 26 | For there , just at the point where canal and lake site coincide , she found one of the few recorded colonies of the narrow small reed , tenaciously clinging to the mud . |
| 27 | Under the country 's liberal 1987 constitution — one of the few enduring legacies of the popular overthrow of the Duvalier family dictatorship — the highest-ranking Supreme Court Justice should serve as interim President . |
| 28 | Stutchbury 's journal contains important observations on coral reefs and is one of the few detailed accounts of the early pearling industry in the Tuamotus . |
| 29 | George Seawright is a Scot who had developed an interest in Ulster politics while still in Springburn , near Glasgow , where he was one of the few Scottish members of Paisley 's Ulster Protestant Volunteers . |
| 30 | Mrs Mary Brunell , 67 , was one of the few outright supporters of the Ashdown personality cult . |