Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the few [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet democracy , both in ancient Greece and in the politics of the past two centuries , has never been achieved without a struggle , and that struggle has always been , in good part , a type of class struggle , even if it is very simply characterized , as it was by many Greeks , as a struggle of the many poor against the few who are rich and well-born . |
| 2 | The Slavs were one of a score of peoples who ravaged the Roman world , but they are one of the few whose cultural identity has remained intact . |
| 3 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 4 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 5 | A kind and intelligent psychiatrist ( one of the few we ever saw outside the hospital ) came to talk to us about schizophrenia — the most feared mental illness of all . |
| 6 | He was an original , Mungo decided ; one of the few he had ever met . |
| 7 | He hated having to trust anyone , but Hitch was one of the few he did . |
| 8 | As a fellow international lawyer has put it , Akehurst is one of the few who succeeded . |
| 9 | The Worksop trainer was one of the few who missed seeing the gelding , bought with another yearling for £3,250 , pull six lengths clear . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Soldier of Fortune was one of the few who published my pictures ; I had a cover . |
| 12 | A slim , wiry youth , he was one of the few who could claim a ‘ middle-class ’ upbringing . |
| 13 | This remarkable man is one of the few who … have been , in their own lifetime , their country 's pride . |
| 14 | He was one of the few who did n't give the company a song . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Clive Milton was one of the few who found that the open life did have its virtues : |
| 17 | Paisley , one of the few who could grasp the larger issues brought into focus by the assassination attempt at Tully-West , unfortunately was absent at Westminster . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In Britain , Eastman ( 1984 ) , a social worker , is one of the few who have sought to draw attention to abuse of old people . |
| 20 | Yanaihara Tadao was one of the few who courageously advocated home rule for Korea and even , if necessary , independence . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Harold Macmillan and Anthony Eden shared the same reaction ; the young Robert Boothby was one of the few who were disappointed by the Armistice , because he had been too young to fight . |
| 23 | You 're one of the few who was aware of their existence . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Although he was active in the local government of Warwickshire , Worcestershire , and , more briefly , Buckinghamshire , Throckmorton 's chief claim to fame is as one of the few who openly attacked Henry VIII over the divorce of Catherine of Aragon [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | Pennings ( 1985 ) is one of the few who has attempted to investigate strategic decision-making taking this simple fact into account . |
| 27 | She was one of the few who possessed it . |
| 28 | Of his contemporaries Eliot was one of the few who not merely looked to a culturally united Europe but knew personally many of the writers and intellectual leaders on the Continent . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And he is one of the few who have never changed sides . |