Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lloyd describes her books as ‘ wonderful , moving stuff : she is one of the few authors to have made John Booth cry . ’ |
| 32 | Oxford 's Russell-Cairns unit is one of the few centres to deal specifically with children . |
| 33 | This is one of the few places to take shelter from the streets that was safe to go . |
| 34 | She was also one of the few Salvationists to see the need and value of the media . |
| 35 | Not only will he be one of the few Democrats to win the presidency in the past 50 years but he will have humiliated an incumbent President in the process . |
| 36 | As it is , he emerged as one of the few Democrats to have had a ‘ good war ’ . |
| 37 | The wrenching cry at the start of the Finale claps a vice on the emotions that is sustained through to the ambivalent release provided by the Epilogue , and Barbirolli is one of the few conductors to prolong the agony of the climax by observing VW 's protracted emphasis on the grinding trombone and tube underpinning . |
| 38 | This is one of the few constellations to resemble the object after which it is named . |
| 39 | ‘ I was totally wrong , it was immature , pure arrogance , ’ Souness confesses , in what must be one of the few confessions to take place inside Ibrox . |
| 40 | One of the few animals to defeat the Himalayas — the bar-headed goose ( left ) is thought to cross the peak of Everest on migration . |
| 41 | BURMAH , the oil group which nearly came to grief in the 1970s stock market crash , was one of the few shares to resist Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's gloomy forecast on shares . |
| 42 | Outside number 1015 the rest of the world came and went , while the porch door swung open and shut even more frequently , as the October wind strengthened , forcing the few passers-by to bend into what was now turning into a gale and to clutch at their hats . |
| 43 | ‘ The truth is men like gadgets , they like to control their environment , ’ points out Dr Margaret Shotton , author of Computer Addiction ? and one of the few academics to have taken a serious look at video game culture . |
| 44 | According to figures made public in 1990 , it was one of the few republics to run a positive balance in its trade with other republics . |
| 45 | Chemical knowledge was to be communicated in a straightforward manner , leaving associations and word play to poets and writers of fiction like Goethe , whose Elective Affinities was one of the few novels to exploit chemical imagery with serious rather than comic intent . |
| 46 | It was also humbling to know her as she was one of the few colleagues to combine the life of a successful international singer with an equally successful marriage ( to the music teacher Paul Blissett ) . |
| 47 | BLCMP is one of the few OPACs to offer a classmark pivot . |
| 48 | Porting a 1.24 million-line C code CAE application to different machines and operating systems , including rewriting the graphics drivers , seems to have taken only about two to three man-months per port for development , and a few man-months to test before shipping . |
| 49 | I told him and we reached the CHAB studios with only a few moments to settle Mr Murray before the microphone and be ready for the red light signifying we were ‘ on the air ’ . |
| 50 | If you feel yourself tensing up , then spare a few moments to release that tension and see the difference it can make . |
| 51 | The driver stopped the jeep outside the Saulnier farm for a few moments to say goodbye to the farmer , a very good friend to the Commandos , especially No. 6 Commando . |
| 52 | Another thing we 're going to talk to somebody from the N S P C C who 's coming in in a few moments to talk about Halloween trick or treating and stuff like that . |
| 53 | He had only a few moments to decide on what he should do . |
| 54 | Dr McNab had Come to the door of his ward for a few moments to watch the heating of the bath-water ; then with a sigh and a shake of his head he had retired inside again . |
| 55 | The highlight is ‘ Nhan Tin ’ ( or missing persons ) , which gives individual inmates a few moments to appeal to relatives living in America , Canada or Australia . |
| 56 | I sha n't see you again — I 'm leaving in a few moments to drive down to Kildare . |
| 57 | Miss Honey took a few moments to let this curious statement sink in . |
| 58 | There was no need to leave now ; he could stay and talk the matter out He took a few moments to arrange his thoughts , make a few educated guesses and assess the full extent of the plot which had been built around him . |
| 59 | For this reason I always emphasise that if , as you complete the final turn , you are happy that you have got the field ‘ made ’ , you should always open full airbrake for a few moments to check that you would undershoot with that setting . |
| 60 | When we reached the jetty we paused for a few moments to look across at the islet . |