Example sentences of "[prep] the few [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Success for the few who achieved it was often bought at the cost of Korean ties and identity . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | But most of the ions and electrons are deflected , and of the few which penetrate most do so up the magnetotail . |
6 | She knew him when he came ; though he trod quietly his step was unmistakably light and long and confident , and he was one of the few who came that way by night alone , yet not furtively . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The writer Joseph Addison is the best-known of the few who benefited from this . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | As a fellow international lawyer has put it , Akehurst is one of the few who succeeded . |
13 | Willie Watson , 211 appearances for Sunderland and later player/manager at Halifax Town , was one of the few who represented England at both sports . |
14 | William Hutton was one of the few who worked in both factory and cottage as a child , for he was first employed in a silk mill in Derby before becoming apprenticed to his framework knitter uncle . |
15 | The Worksop trainer was one of the few who missed seeing the gelding , bought with another yearling for £3,250 , pull six lengths clear . |
16 | Soldier of Fortune was one of the few who published my pictures ; I had a cover . |
17 | The farming industry must be seen to make an example of the few who put the food industry at risk and they must put farming facts in perspective . |
18 | Pennings ( 1985 ) is one of the few who has attempted to investigate strategic decision-making taking this simple fact into account . |
19 | She is one of the few who has gained hope through the technique , known as the Ilizarov frame . |
20 | So many people admire his work that he can be quite careless of the few who do n't . |
21 | He was one of the few who did n't give the company a song . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Clive Milton was one of the few who found that the open life did have its virtues : |
25 | She was one of the few who possessed it . |
26 | In Britain , Eastman ( 1984 ) , a social worker , is one of the few who have sought to draw attention to abuse of old people . |
27 | The scene of one of Drachenfels ' most infamous atrocities , this chamber has been shunned by most of the few who have penetrated the Castle . |
28 | And he is one of the few who have never changed sides . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Platinum was one of the few I came across that allowed you to have any more . ’ |