Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] the few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Profitboss steers clear of such indulgence , for in the end everyone pays dearly for the privilege of the few . |
| 2 | At the instigation of the Greenock Deaf and Dumb Christian Society , the authorities in Greenock , Scotland , approved the use of a room in Greenock Academy ( opened 1855 ) for the teaching of the few deaf children in the town . |
| 3 | These changes would drive savings overseas and make wealth again the prerogative of the few . |
| 4 | Soon Downes had reached the last carriage , in front of the diesel locomotive , staring quickly through the windows of the compartment as the few doors still remaining open were banged shut and a whistle blew , and with a slight chug and then with a mighty heave the long , north-bound train began slowly to move forward , gradually picking up a little speed , before moving out and away along the curving stretch of line that led to Banbury . |
| 5 | He admitted the murder in the few words he spoke to the people . |
| 6 | Estimates of the effect of the few Concordes currently in operation are that they have a negligible impact on the ozone layer . |
| 7 | The Medau Society was formed in 1952 to link together the growing number of people throughout Britain interested in Medau Rhythmic Movement , and to train part-time teachers to supplement the work of the few German trained teachers . |
| 8 | Britain is at the stage when we must no longer expect sections of our land to be retained for the benefit of the few , when they could be used to provide jobs for the many . |
| 9 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West said , by the end of the decade , they will unilaterally have slashed £12 billion from the value of SERPS , transferring funds paid in by all of us for the future into private funds run solely for the benefit of the few . |
| 10 | And plants exploit the Thames in the few areas where tidal scouring is not too great : the LNHS has recorded wild and garden angelica ( Angelica sylvestris and A. archangetica ) and hemlock water dropwort ( Oenanthe crocata ) at Battersea . |
| 11 | In the nests of the few species that feed exclusively on carrion , the queen cells and food storage cells are much the same size . |
| 12 | The range of humane and other qualities most admired is best illustrated by the contents of the few obituaries carried in its pages . |
| 13 | ‘ For the sake of the few unfrazzled nerve-endings I have left , I sincerely hope not , Mr Jacobsen , ’ she returned coolly , completely unaware that she 'd crossed her fingers behind her back in the old childhood gesture of protection against telling a lie . |
| 14 | He is quick to defend the actions of the few compulsive thieves who , he says , are mentally ill . |
| 15 | Even the local reporter had to kick his heels at the lich-gate with the few inquisitive neighbours who had gathered . |
| 16 | But this would be at a great price for the many to deal with the problems of the few . |
| 17 | In its way the town possessed a certain prosperity that was based on the quality of the nearby timber , the richness of the black soil , and the failure of central government 's collectivization policy to reach with any great thoroughness into the self-sufficiency of the few thousands who lived there . |
| 18 | The evidence from the few areas that have been bored or surveyed geophysically supports this view , but other evidence does not fit so well . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She moved up the stairs past the few skins that lay on a table and made her way into the office . |
| 21 | My arrival only deepened the stupefaction of the few orderlies , never mind the patients , sprawled two or three to a straw sack and still well short of the size of a woman . |
| 22 | By last month tens of thousands of people were on the road to the few relief centres that the government runs . |
| 23 | Genetic sex determination is like a sleeping policeman laid across the road — inconvenient for everybody , but necessary to stop the selfishness of the few . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | There are few people , I 'm very concerned for those people and we will be imposing conditions if members wish to approve it to protect the interests of the few people in close proximity , many of the objectors er they must be heard and their point of view is report in the committee papers but they do live at er a couple of miles from the site . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Many constitutional authorities , like the New Right , seem to be keener on securing economic freedoms for particular individuals than they are to secure broad social freedoms for the mass of the population against the freedoms of the few . |
| 28 | People who write about the stultifying effects of mass media , the bias of news reports , seem to derive their evidence mostly from industrialized countries where people have a greater trust in the accuracy of the few stations readily available . |
| 29 | Historical comparisons between the results of the few surveillance studies of locally confined disease with results of treatment studies are not conclusive . |
| 30 | In the old days , when land was concentrated in the hands of the few , sensible rights of way were established between cottages tied to the Big House in order that Yeoman A could get to the pump shared with Yeoman B ; Yeoman B , hurrying about his master 's affairs , could cross Yeoman A's garden to get to the shed where the gaffer 's carts were kept . |