Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Dr Dunstaple , please ! " protested the Magistrate , who was one of the few cantonment-dwellers who had never experienced any affection for Dr Dunstaple . |
| 2 | The few tenants who are searching for short-term leases are now able to negotiate break clauses in leases for new buildings . |
| 3 | He is one of the few comedians who , when someone truthfully observes , ‘ I say , you 're sitting in a dustbin ’ , can make the classic reply , ‘ Oh , so I am ’ sound like an hilarious joke . ’ |
| 4 | The likes of Gordon Brown , Tony Blair , John Smith and Martin O'Neill have made good impressions , though Neil Kinnock , who got on famously badly with Ronald Reagan but adequately with Mr Bush , is still often referred to by the few Americans who pay any attention to British politics as ‘ the Welsh windbag ’ . |
| 5 | Oh , you get the few stalwarts who come year after year , but for the majority it 's their one and only chance to be pampered , to see places they might otherwise never see . ’ |
| 6 | The legislation protects their consciences , and in charity makes financial provision for the few priests who will feel that they must leave . |
| 7 | Station staff knew everyone worth knowing in the suburb apart from the few tradesmen who made no use of the railway for carriage of goods . |
| 8 | In 1871 , 74 per cent of the village men were manual workers and most were engaged in agriculture , while the few women who worked outside the home were almost entirely ‘ in service ’ . |
| 9 | One of the few women who had done so over time without the complement of sexual gratification . |
| 10 | The few girls who enter science will not usually show these foreclosure characteristics . |
| 11 | The definition ‘ Bangladeshi ’ refers to infants whose mothers were born in Bangladesh , and the few mothers who were born or grew up in Britain . |
| 12 | The nurses and the few mothers who had managed to be available on Christmas Eve sang ragged and loud . |
| 13 | Near nightfall he saw his younger sister Katya come out of the kitchens into the yard , saw her empty some slops for the few chickens who scuttled about . |
| 14 | At school , the few masters who had noticed him at all had tried vaguely to direct him towards science . |
| 15 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 16 | When state-supported secondary education was introduced in 1878 , a denominational system was officially set up , though at this time the system was only availed of by the few families who could afford to lose the labour of young teenagers . |
| 17 | The few adults who were allowed to accompany the children had too many demands on them to act as full-time baby minders . |
| 18 | This is a pity , because the few scientists who have gone into the matter in rigorous detail have concluded that there at least might be something in it . |
| 19 | The founder of Serbian expressionism was one of the few artists who worked and thought alongside the European art movements of the beginning of the century . |
| 20 | But that Wednesday morning , the few customers who had called for an early drink were much more interested in other underwater creatures : four of them , with sleek black skins and disproportionately large webbed feet , circling up and down , and round and round , and sweeping the depths diligently below the weir , streams of bubbles intermittently rising to the surface from the cylinders strapped to their backs . |
| 21 | I picture the few campesinos who guard the sacks moving away as we approach . |
| 22 | For , as the report went on to show , the problem is not that manufacturers employ too few people , but that the few people whom they do employ produce much less than their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 23 | The few people who were visible looked like a crew of spectres as the shadowed hollows in their faces shifted with the wavering of the flames . |
| 24 | Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises . |
| 25 | Having known the Royal Family all her life , she was easy to talk to , and was one of the few people who knew what Diana was talking about when she spoke about her day-to-day life . |
| 26 | Hamad Hasan al-Harash , for example , was a senior official in the Agriculture Department in Kufra ( Zawiya ) , had two well-established irrigated gardens worked by Egyptian labourers in 1975–9 , and was one of the few people who supplied fruit and vegetables to the Kufra market on a regular basis . |
| 27 | Derry politics aroused nothing but distaste for working within the system among the few people who were interested in politics but who were not already involved in one of the two main parties . |
| 28 | People bought her lunch and rang her up and sent her birthday cards ; it seemed a particularly cruel joke that one of the few people who really did dislike her should be married to her . |
| 29 | The few people who still live on these remote islands practise traditional Kentish crafts , such as creative in-breeding , undisturbed by motor traffic and other aspects of mainland life . |
| 30 | I 'm one of the few people who can really claim to have gone with Noakes . ’ |