Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun] who " in BNC.
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1 | The legislation protects their consciences , and in charity makes financial provision for the few priests who will feel that they must leave . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
4 | Hari had remained in the cemetery long after the few neighbours who had attended Win Morgan 's funeral had gone . |
5 | One of the few women who had done so over time without the complement of sexual gratification . |
6 | " Dr Dunstaple , please ! " protested the Magistrate , who was one of the few cantonment-dwellers who had never experienced any affection for Dr Dunstaple . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Mr Devaty is one of the few dissidents who do not come from a Prague-based intellectual background . |
11 | He was a brilliant man who had a great deal of influence — in fact , he was one of the few doges who wielded any real authority . |
12 | They are still one of the few bands who mean anything these days . |
13 | Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | I 'm one of the few people who can really claim to have gone with Noakes . ’ |
18 | I was one of the few people who understood him . ’ |
19 | Despite their differences and Leopold 's difficult and austere character , his father 's death robbed Wolfgang of a most loving and tender parent , and of one of the few people who genuinely appreciated and fully comprehended the nature of his genius . |
20 | When Karen met Robert , teased by his description of himself as ‘ one of the few people who has never seen the ‘ Sound of Music ’ , she thought ‘ nice … |
21 | Bill Rathje , a professor of archaeology at the University of Arizona , is one of the few people who has burrowed into America 's landfills and weighed and measured their contents — a treatment usually reserved for the dustbins of rock stars . |
22 | She was one of the few people who had no fear of him , even her Chief Constable would be shocked if he heard the way she argued with him sometimes . |
23 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
24 | She was one of the few people who rose early in the morning to greet him on his release from prison in 1897 . |
25 | Already you are familiar with my lifestyle , my hobbies ; you are even one of the few people who know of Gabriella . ’ |
26 | At any rate , I can say that I am one of the few people who saw T. S. Eliot with his trousers down . |
27 | ‘ And I was probably one of the few people who ever paid It ’ , he suggests . |
28 | Zaria was one of the few people who could control her when she had the moods . ’ |
29 | Ken is one of the few people who can stun me into being ungrammatical . |
30 | He spoke of the research evidence of the few people who are gi who are given money for care , taken up after the settlement of their cases and added his own experience . |