Example sentences of "[prep] the few [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AIRCRAFT FOR THE FEW by Michael Bowyer is probably one of the most comprehensive accounts yet published of all the operational types to see RAF service during the Battle of Britain . |
| 2 | In 1860 he won the headmaster 's poetry prize with ‘ The Escorial ’ ; another schoolboy poem appeared in February 1863 in Once a Week , one of the few to be published during his lifetime . |
| 3 | Deeply kind and warm-hearted , despite her somewhat formidable exterior and a conversational style which could tend towards the monologue , she remained a generous radical to the end , one of the few of her generation who integrated the immense energy and self-confidence of the Ascendancy families into modern Irish life . |
| 4 | This great canvas is one of the few of Rudolf 's collection to remain in Prague . |
| 5 | It is perhaps ironic that this tablet is one of the few on the market which can be interfaced with the Dragon computer as the company which makes it is the remnants of the firm which designed and built the Dragon . |
| 6 | Marko Radoman , 103 , and a veteran of both Balkan wars , was given a place at the front as one of the few with personal memories of Nicholas 's reign . |
| 7 | ‘ Rush was one of the few out there who did himself credit . |
| 8 | He is actually one of the few amongst us , who is probably quite expert on these matters . |
| 9 | Additionally , the cataloguer will be sure to make comparisons , which will be useful to the reader , for the format is one of the few in which a generous number of illustrations can be included . |
| 10 | Stepping out on to grass she turned and knew that she was one of the few in all history and legend who could safely look a dragon in the eye . |
| 11 | Having been told by the gentleman at passenger enquiries that the Lowestoft train is one of the few in Britain to retain six-seater compartments , I am fully prepared to adopt my usual routine for such occasions ; I intend to rush on , secure an empty compartment , slide the door behind me , adopt the brazen-hussy-like pose of an Amsterdam whore in her front window ( tongue rolling out and knees wide apart , as I slouch across the upholstery ) , crook my index finger and beckon slowly at any commuters passing along the corridor outside who are considering invading my territory . |
| 12 | The Wise 's period saw a number of dramatic changes ; Days Mill was enlarged and updated , becoming one of the few in the Nailsworth area to boast the new power-looms . |
| 13 | The next mill downstream is Cheshers Mill , later referred to as The Old Mill , one of the few in Blockley never to be used for silk . |
| 14 | He was entirely comfortable with the predictable opinion of the Senior Chief Inspector of Schools who confessed that ‘ I am not much moved by what appears to sacrifice the interests of the few in favour of the many when one result is certain to be that the quality of the person required to fill posts of great importance and of a highly specialized nature is likely to be degraded . ’ |
| 15 | It is fair to say that the British obscenity test is one of the few in the world which attempts to focus specifically on the ‘ protection of health or morals . |
| 16 | This is an arranged marriage , one of the few in many centuries for this family that has gone wrong . ’ |
| 17 | The main attack , entrusted to General , Sir Herbert Plumer , was to prove one of the few in the war that was immaculately planned and achieved all its objectives . |
| 18 | But if I Saw Three Ships was in there because it was one of the few in six eight time . |
| 19 | The room was one of the few in the house spared by its former owner 's transforming zeal . |
| 20 | Helping to fill it , though , is a recent argument that Carlisle , as a civitas capital , was also a bishopric , and one of the few in Britain which survived the Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon transition ; indeed the civitas is seen as the homeland of St Patrick . |
| 21 | I urge my hon. Friend to examine more carefully the health arrangements in many European Community countries , because Britain is one of the few in which a patient may visit a general practitioner and receive hospital treatment free of charge . |
| 22 | The group began its " Summer of Mercy " campaign on July 15 by mobilizing mass blockades of Wichita 's abortion clinics , one of which was one of the few in the USA to perform late-term abortions . |
| 23 | These two universities have been involved as two of the few in Britain with expertise in both theology and development . |
| 24 | The Department of Scandinavian Studies is the only centre in Scotland — and one of the few in Britain — for the study of Scandinavian languages and cultures . |
| 25 | We 're one of the few in the ar in the county apparently . |
| 26 | From the few to the many |
| 27 | They can be shown to range from sites entirely dependent upon the main road frontages , through those which developed a system of irregular internal streets and lanes , to the few with some form of organized street plan . |
| 28 | It can also be likened to the world envisaged by Hassan 's ‘ new gnostics ’ , who see the future as a vast network of information systems produced , as Brooke-Rose points out , by the few for the many ( see section 2.1 above ) . |