Example sentences of "[conj] one [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the defendant was the only person other than the plaintiff using the information ( or one of a few ) then the injunction would be effective to protect the plaintiff and would be granted . |
| 2 | A grossly unstable patient from a referring hospital turns out to be a typical ( for us ) unstable angina ; a patient with life-threatening ventricular tachycardia can only come to Barts for the appropriate highly specialised medical or nursing therapy ( or one of the few other centres , most of which are also on the Tomlinson hit-list ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The fact that one of the few unchanged portfolios was that of Agriculture was seen as indicative of the current intense foreign pressure upon Japan to end its ban on rice imports . |
| 5 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 6 | I do n't care what you say , they really are marvellous creatures and one of the few animals in God 's world that do absolutely nothing but good . |
| 7 | For another , his is one of the largest sheep farms in the area and one of the few where the ewes are lambed outdoors . |
| 8 | He was a trusted friend and one of the few people ever to have been in the Prince 's employ who spoke frankly to him , and when asked would give an honest , if sometimes unwelcome , opinion . |
| 9 | Having lived with it for 19 months , John Dyer , an unlikely champion of investors ' rights and one of the few ‘ fortunates ’ not hit hard by the collapse , was fulsome in his praise for BCIG 's supporters . |
| 10 | The Israelis , fielding five international masters and two FIDE masters against Bayern 's six grandmasters , went down by the narrow margin of 7–5 after IM Leonid Zaid ( a recent arrival from the USSR and one of the few men alive with a plus score against Kasparov ) shocked the Germans by defeating Kindermann and Bischoff . |
| 11 | For the first time , an entirely independent body had uncovered a direct statistical link between Britain 's biggest nuclear power station and one of the few types of cancer which displayed a clear pathway back to radiation exposure . |
| 12 | The hotel , catering and tourist industry is the second largest employer in the United Kingdom , a major contributor to the balance of payments , and one of the few industries which is showing , and will continue to show , real growth . |
| 13 | Crime is one of the fastest-growing and one of the few recession-proof industries . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Idomeneo , Mozart 's first mature opera , is a landmark in the history of opera and one of the few 18th-century opere serie to still have regular performances two centuries later ; it is also a taste of things to come . |
| 16 | Nineteenth-century specialist François Perreau-Saussine of Galerie du Carrousel has dropped in , together with Nicolas Joly from Galerie Yves Mikaeloff who is presenting ten pre-cubist and cubist drawings by Andre Mare alongside seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works , including an early La Hyre and one of the few Nicolas Mignards still to be found outside the Louvre . |
| 17 | Sotheby 's open the Impressionist season with Matisse 's ‘ Fatma , la mulatresse ’ painted in 1912 and one of the few pictures of this period likely to come on the market . |
| 18 | The reserve of Folkstumyren is on Dovrefjell and , as the name suggests , is a large mire or marsh and one of the few places in Norway where cranes breed . |
| 19 | Museum professionals are agreed , however , that it is the work of a North Italian master in the last quarter of the fifteenth century and one of the few major bronzes to have survived from this period . |
| 20 | When the idea of a Royal Commission was in circulation , lawyers within the ranks of the Government , notably Sam Silkin , the Attorney General and one of the few front-benchers on either side to have taken a close interest in penal reform , and Alex Lyon , a Minister of State at the Home Office , pressed for the opportunity to be grasped to make an authoritative assessment of the arguments for a public prosecution service independent of the police . |
| 21 | ( 1983 ) and one of the few volumes in its field is Herington ( 1984 ) . |
| 22 | The spatial complexity and dramatic lighting of the staircase at Windsor had been achieved by May on a smaller scale at the earlier Eltham Lodge , Kent , one of the quintessential Restoration houses , built in 1664 for Sir John Shaw , and one of the few buildings by the architect to survive . |
| 23 | Helping to fill it , though , is a recent argument that Carlisle , as a civitas capital , was also a bishopric , and one of the few in Britain which survived the Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon transition ; indeed the civitas is seen as the homeland of St Patrick . |
| 24 | The meeting immediately elected Moore , an instinctive populist and one of the few member of the Cabinet with genuinely working class credentials , to lead the party and to attempt to restore those areas of traditional Labour support eroded by Rogernomics . |
| 25 | The Department of Scandinavian Studies is the only centre in Scotland — and one of the few in Britain — for the study of Scandinavian languages and cultures . |
| 26 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 27 | and one of the few movies where he 's not going around shouting he was drinking , but he was n't shouting |
| 28 | If one of the few upstream firms integrates with a downstream firm , then its previous customers may find their supply of input dries up , or is subject to onerous terms . |
| 29 | I realize that is an admission of cowardice , but one of the few consolations of approaching middle age is the fact that one no longer objects to having to admit a weakness . |
| 30 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |