Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
| 32 | Despite their differences and Leopold 's difficult and austere character , his father 's death robbed Wolfgang of a most loving and tender parent , and of one of the few people who genuinely appreciated and fully comprehended the nature of his genius . |
| 33 | When Karen met Robert , teased by his description of himself as ‘ one of the few people who has never seen the ‘ Sound of Music ’ , she thought ‘ nice … |
| 34 | Bill Rathje , a professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona , is one of the few people who has burrowed into America 's landfills and weighed and measured their contents — a treatment usually reserved for the dustbins of rock stars . |
| 35 | Great claims are made for the technique , by the few people who are selling services of this kind . |
| 36 | She was one of the few people who had no fear of him , even her Chief Constable would be shocked if he heard the way she argued with him sometimes . |
| 37 | She knew he would be friendless , that , beyond the house , the few people who worked in it and herself , there was no one . |
| 38 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
| 39 | She was one of the few people who rose early in the morning to greet him on his release from prison in 1897 . |
| 40 | Already you are familiar with my lifestyle , my hobbies ; you are even one of the few people who know of Gabriella . ’ |
| 41 | At any rate , I can say that I am one of the few people who saw T. S. Eliot with his trousers down . |
| 42 | ‘ And I was probably one of the few people who ever paid It ’ , he suggests . |
| 43 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
| 44 | I hung about further down the street , hoping not to be seen by the few people who were strolling there . |
| 45 | Zaria was one of the few people who could control her when she had the moods . ’ |
| 46 | . And er we were truthful , we tried to put our side of the argument , you know there were the few people who said , well I do n't really care , and drove in . |
| 47 | Ken is one of the few people who can stun me into being ungrammatical . |
| 48 | He spoke of the research evidence of the few people who are gi who are given money for care , taken up after the settlement of their cases and added his own experience . |
| 49 | ‘ We are actually now dealing with a substance which affects us all , not just the few people who take cannabis for recreational purposes . ’ |
| 50 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |
| 51 | The few Marxists who devoted serious attention to the problem of nationality and nationalism — above all , Otto Bauer and Karl Renner — also approached it from a class standpoint . |
| 52 | If you belong to one of the few parishes who have not yet started a discussion group then why not start now . |
| 53 | This finding may have clinical importance in the few patients who have pronounced hypergastrinaemia because of profound long acting acid inhibition . |
| 54 | This finding may be of clinical importance in the few patients who have severe hypergastrinaemia as a result of long acting profound acid inhibition . |
| 55 | In contrast , the few children who kept in touch with a birth parent or members of the birth family seemed to draw a lot of satisfaction from occasional communications or meetings . |
| 56 | Invitations come via playgroups but parents of the few children who do not attend one can contact the headteacher , Margaret Sutton , at the school . |
| 57 | The few servants who had not died had run away in the night . |
| 58 | Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’ |
| 59 | They are still one of the few bands who mean anything these days . |
| 60 | The few feminists who did consider the problem of women 's domestic labour came up with a collectivist solution similar to that of Beveridge . |