Example sentences of "[prep] the few [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typescripts photocopied and distributed that carried the rivulet of dissent from eye to eye for the few who trusted in a future of change and the ultimate destruction of the monolith that controlled their lives . |
| 2 | The ideal of providing an adequate and satisfying secondary education for all ( and not just for the few who were fortunate enough to be able to pass a selection test at 11 ) seemed close to realisation . |
| 3 | Success for the few who achieved it was often bought at the cost of Korean ties and identity . |
| 4 | Surprisingly , that is , for mainstream economists , who had assumed that Keynesian economic management would abolish such crashes , but without surprise for the few who had remembered Kondratiev 's ideas . |
| 5 | Except for the few who tended , from time to time , to inconvenience the landlord by dying there , passing so imperceptibly that it sometimes went unnoticed for an hour or two , from a state which had not really been living at all . |
| 6 | The Slavs were one of a score of peoples who ravaged the Roman world , but they are one of the few whose cultural identity has remained intact . |
| 7 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 8 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 9 | But most of the ions and electrons are deflected , and of the few which penetrate most do so up the magnetotail . |
| 10 | A kind and intelligent psychiatrist ( one of the few we ever saw outside the hospital ) came to talk to us about schizophrenia — the most feared mental illness of all . |
| 11 | As a fellow international lawyer has put it , Akehurst is one of the few who succeeded . |
| 12 | The Worksop trainer was one of the few who missed seeing the gelding , bought with another yearling for £3,250 , pull six lengths clear . |
| 13 | Ehrenburg reported it , and he is one of the few who described Modigliani in serious mood , not merely hitting the bottle or making a scene . |
| 14 | Soldier of Fortune was one of the few who published my pictures ; I had a cover . |
| 15 | A slim , wiry youth , he was one of the few who could claim a ‘ middle-class ’ upbringing . |
| 16 | This remarkable man is one of the few who … have been , in their own lifetime , their country 's pride . |
| 17 | He was one of the few who did n't give the company a song . |
| 18 | One of the points that distinguishes Green from many of the artists who made prints of the Lake District at this period was the fact that he was one of the few who prepared and drew on the plates and etched the images himself . |
| 19 | Clive Milton was one of the few who found that the open life did have its virtues : |
| 20 | Paisley , one of the few who could grasp the larger issues brought into focus by the assassination attempt at Tully-West , unfortunately was absent at Westminster . |
| 21 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
| 22 | In Britain , Eastman ( 1984 ) , a social worker , is one of the few who have sought to draw attention to abuse of old people . |
| 23 | The scene of one of Drachenfels ' most infamous atrocities , this chamber has been shunned by most of the few who have penetrated the Castle . |
| 24 | Yanaihara Tadao was one of the few who courageously advocated home rule for Korea and even , if necessary , independence . |
| 25 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You 're one of the few who was aware of their existence . |
| 28 | With Sycorax , the islanders were more successful in administering the proper rites , for during the treaty negotiations that followed the battle , her eldest daughter 's husband , who had been wounded in the foot but survived , pleaded for the bodies of the few who had died inside the stockade . |
| 29 | Many were shot in the back as they ran , and I was one of the few who reached the trench we had started from unhurt — alive , even . |
| 30 | From this point of view there is room for the state to assume an interventionist role for the many in a way that may well eat into the freedoms of the few who exercise private , economic power — power that many constitutional authorities are actually concerned to protect and defend through their stress on the importance of liberty , and constitutional limitations on taxation , state intervention , parliamentary sovereignty , and the play of democratic politics itself . |