Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] of a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say this in the context of a situation which should have your whole nation incensed ; because of a terrible insult which is to be perpetrated by the Westminster Government for a further 30 years in the interests of a few Englishmen . |
| 2 | The essentially one-day match contract for Chris Cowdrey is seen as rather ‘ something or nothing ’ in the words of a few Sophia punters . |
| 3 | This means that the State helps the community in resisting the amassing of wealth in the hands of a few members , because of the disruptive implication of such a process . |
| 4 | Economic growth in Latin America has accumulated benefits in the hands of a few , rather than distributing them as predicted by the modernists . |
| 5 | ‘ It concentrates power in the hands of a few , necessitates a military-style secrecy and undermines the principles of human liberty . |
| 6 | The more power in Europe lay in the hands of a few strong States , the more a State system emerged in which the position of each was established through the recognition of the others . |
| 7 | The real power lay outside the House of Commons , in the hands of a few rich magnates and aristocratic landowners . |
| 8 | This eventually results in ‘ monopoly capitalism ’ , where economic power is concentrated in the hands of a few very large enterprises . |
| 9 | Social justice , according to Belloc , could be attained only by destroying the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a few , which bred inevitable contradictions between the values of self-respect and self-help preached in capitalist society and the material condition of the mass of the population which rendered it impossible for them to practice such principles . |
| 10 | Elite theories accept that power is concentrated in the hands of a few , but deny that the power derives from wealth . |
| 11 | As Veljanovski points out , ‘ if wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few rich landowners who buy Rolls Royces and caviar , then allocative efficiency will be consistent with the poor starving and the economy 's productive capacity channelled into the manufacture of these luxury items . |
| 12 | These changes have , of course , encouraged non-Marxists to argue that Marxist theory is now invalid because power is no longer concentrated in the hands of a few economic owners and their friends . |
| 13 | Similarly , in the case of a local authority , formal authority to make decisions will rest with the full council ; but in reality it may well be that power is in the hands of a few councillors and chief officers such that the locus of decision making may be far removed from the full council meeting . |
| 14 | British industry is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few producers , and oligopoly seems to be the commonest market |
| 15 | A simple hierarchy puts decision-making authority permanently in the hands of a few people . |
| 16 | The Labour im ownership of the mass media tends to be concentrated in the hands of a few companies . |
| 17 | The Garlands , and their shop with the rooms over , were out of period , relics of a time when the business and management of the town had been in the hands of a few prosperous traders . |
| 18 | The report effectively admitted flaws in the structure and proposed new machinery to avoid concentration of power in the hands of a few . |
| 19 | From 1066 to 1558 France had been the country that England would fight if she was going to fight anyone , but for over a hundred years that role of the perpetual enemy had been taken by Spain or — in the minds of a few people — by the Netherlands . |
| 20 | More generous approaches to the question of emancipation were to be found not only in the many unofficial memoranda which were passing from hand to hand , but also in the minds of a few well-placed individuals whose views could hardly be ignored . |