Example sentences of "it [is] one [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's one of the few places close to Washington where you can get lost and still not get hurt , ’ Ashelman said . |
| 2 | It 's one of the few places in Britain where you can catch sight of the endangered sand lizard or smooth snake . |
| 3 | Billed as ‘ the silliest tour we 've done … very pantomime ’ , it 's one of the few winter tours selling well in a chilly economic climate — testimony again to the loyalty afforded the duo by their UK following . |
| 4 | It 's one of the few privileges of old age . |
| 5 | Asthma is an increasing worry because it 's one of the few Western diseases that is becoming more frequent and severe . |
| 6 | It is no longer the kiss of death to an actor ( watch this space ) , and it 's one of the few ways we have of paying the school fees on a regular basis . |
| 7 | In fact , it 's one of the few places he 's ever been outside London . |
| 8 | It 's one of the few herds left with no Canadian or American blood . |
| 9 | The Elderflower juice is part of the booming market in adult soft drinks — it 's one of the few businesses that 's beaten the recession . |
| 10 | It 's one of the few crops the European Community is n't growing enough of . |
| 11 | With stress management courses like this , it 's one of the few big companies trying to tackle the problem . |
| 12 | Secretary John Deakin admits it 's one of the few drawbacks of the new set-up . |
| 13 | The site is particularly important because it is one of the few such castles to have developed out of an earlier Norman stone-built ring-work fort . |
| 14 | It is one of the few gestures of real friendship encountered by this lonely man in his long and tormented odyssey . |
| 15 | It is one of the few examples of mobiliary art of the period from Britain . |
| 16 | It is one of the few symphonies — like Brahms 's Fourth and Mahler 's Sixth — that ends in complete disaster . |
| 17 | And I know I was madly , madly involved with the symphony to the extent that when it was done — and it is one of the few works I say this of — I would not dare touch it again . |
| 18 | Certainly it is one of the few areas of growth : between 1985 and 1990 the advertising spend in Britain grew 75 per cent , but the spend on direct mail grew 101 per cent . |
| 19 | It is one of the few companies exposed to the full blast of petroleum revenue tax but , as a recent National Audit Office report showed , the whole offshore tax system is in a mess . |
| 20 | There is a watercolour of this by Fortuné de Fournier , and so it is one of the few smaller but important rooms of the Tuileries of which we have a record . |
| 21 | It is one of the few stone galleries . |
| 22 | When young , it is one of the few wines that makes a good partner for salads . |
| 23 | It is one of the few villages that has changed position over the years . |
| 24 | It is one of the few new entries to a chart dominated by old favourites . |
| 25 | It is one of the few Cryptocorynes capable of growing in alkaline conditions . |
| 26 | It is one of the few letters from Theo that we have , and a remarkably frank one . |
| 27 | We have a portable overhead projector and it is one of the few schools with electricity , so I was able to use slides . |
| 28 | It is one of the few places ( in this book ) where a car is not an absolute necessity : Alnmouth is on the main London-Edinburgh rail line and the village has an excellent local bus service . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | While this does not appear to be such an earth shattering decision , it is one of the few occasions when a coroner 's action has been criticised . |