Example sentences of "of the few [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " 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 | She is also one of the few Labour frontbenchers with ministerial experience , having been a junior Education Minister . |
| 3 | Some of the few inspiring things in the whole gallery come from the 1951 Festival Of Britain exhibition . |
| 4 | Jill , charged to find the oldest building in town , located one of the few pre-earthquake buildings in downtown Jackson Square , part of the financial district . |
| 5 | One of the few salutary notes in the debate was provided by the Labour Party spokesman , Roy Jenkins ( who was to become President of the EEC Commission in the late 1970s ) , who said , |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is one of the few new entries to a chart dominated by old favourites . |
| 8 | CAP has so far failed to tackle the disadvantages or to help to secure the benefits of the few comparative advantages of the DRAs . |
| 9 | Motability has been one of the few established successes of a mixed economy . |
| 10 | One of the few established facts about psychotic illness is that it runs in families and only the most stubborn social theorist could now deny that one reason for this is that the disposition to it , at least , is partly inherited . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The pacing of that third movement climax is one of the few weak spots in Claus Peter Flor 's interpretation — the jump forward at 8′40″ ( fig. 129 in the score ) is either a structural miscalculation or a different take , and the premature slowing at 10′12″ ( fig. 137 ) is no more effective . |
| 13 | ONE OF THE few environmental benefits of global warming has been the drowning of the Costa del Sol . |
| 14 | The stone church of S. Nicola at Bari is one of the few ancient buildings in the city to survive . |
| 15 | The academic literature on the Prime Minister has given rise to one of the few serious debates in British political science ; the idea of Prime Ministerial government versus that of Cabinet government . |
| 16 | One of the few surviving descriptions of the old house is by Dr. John Wallis who took a scientific interest in the extraordinary chimneys . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In one of the few specific references to a member country , the G-7 statement said that the decline of the yen " was not contributing to the adjustment process " . |
| 21 | Theirs was one of the few ale-only breweries in London at this time , most of the others producing huge amounts of porter for a voraciously thirsty market . |
| 22 | SUNSCREEM ARE about as far removed from rock music and spurious notions of ‘ cutting it live ’ as it 's possible to get , but as one of the few rave-oriented acts around who actually play live they could teach a lot of aspiring indie acts a thing or seven about live entertainment . |
| 23 | Steve Kerton is one of the few professional drivers on the circuit … he just about survives on sponsorship … you see there are no big bucks in this sport … no national glory … take Kerton he 's to powerboating what Mansell is to motor racing … well in name only … |
| 24 | Organised crime is one of the few economic activities in Russia that is growing . |
| 25 | But Connery 's antics up in the rainforest canopy at least provide one of the few effective moments in the otherwise slow-moving , uninspired Green adventure Medicine Man ( Guild , PG , out now ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At the instigation of the Greenock Deaf and Dumb Christian Society , the authorities in Greenock , Scotland , approved the use of a room in Greenock Academy ( opened 1855 ) for the teaching of the few deaf children in the town . |
| 28 | ‘ In addition to being one of the few remaining commons in the area Newtown Common is a very valuable home for wildlife . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |