Example sentences of "[be] one [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're one of the few who was aware of their existence . |
| 2 | Yet they 're one of the few products not advertised on TV , probably because their appearance is far from viewer-friendly . |
| 3 | Apparently we 're one of the few beer hostelries , so to speak , like pubs and clubs and things like that , that make their profit purely |
| 4 | We 're one of the few in the ar in the county apparently . |
| 5 | He still has many supporters , though , among the Western press , who considered him to be one of the few UN bureaucrats with a habit of telling the truth . |
| 6 | Jack was ready to bet all the crisp honeymoon pound notes he had in his pocket that Charlie would be one of the few quests not wearing a hired morning coat . |
| 7 | It will be one of the few practices that will be able to turn round and tell the FPC that it has got it wrong , claims its senior partner . |
| 8 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 9 | This would seem to be one of the few events that had any lasting emotional effect on him . |
| 10 | Here I want to draw attention to an article by Beverle Houston , ‘ Viewing television : the metapsychology of endless consumption ’ , which seems to me to be one of the few serious attempts to theorize television subjectivity , and one which deserves more attention . |
| 11 | ‘ I was totally wrong , it was immature , pure arrogance , ’ Souness confesses , in what must be one of the few confessions to take place inside Ibrox . |
| 12 | Not only will he be one of the few Democrats to win the presidency in the past 50 years but he will have humiliated an incumbent President in the process . |
| 13 | Gratitude is not what many feel towards Robert Maxwell but with £50,000 from the tycoon , the Bulgarian PM must be one of the few |
| 14 | Britain , says Ash , must be one of the few countries where being ‘ too clever by half ’ is regarded as a stinging insult . |
| 15 | These Bible stories must be one of the few sources of information about dreaming made available during the course of our children 's education . |
| 16 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
| 17 | That item of news is of great interest to me , for if true , it must be one of the few surviving examples of how the church , since the earliest times , has absorbed Pagan shrines into Roman temples into Saxon churches , etc . |
| 18 | It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living . |
| 19 | As such , I must be one of the few hon. Members who has seen the practical effects of the implementation of legislation such as this , and not simply the ideology behind it . |
| 20 | Of course the show is designed to give him rocket-powered lift-off It must be one of the few British musicals to make one feel chauvinistically inclined to announce one 's origins . |
| 21 | The Times Higher Education Supplement began an editorial on the CNAA in 1972 with the statement : ‘ The Council for National Academic Awards must be one of the few unqualified success stories in higher education in the past eight years — sharing that honour perhaps with the Open University ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ You must be one of the few friends of Gamal that I do n't know . ’ |
| 23 | Also , I must be one of the few people to get Cloughies autograph at a training session while he was Leed 's manager . |
| 24 | You must be one of the few people |
| 25 | I 'm one of the few people who can really claim to have gone with Noakes . ’ |
| 26 | After all , he reflected , I am one of the few people in the world who is n't worth blackmailing . |
| 27 | At any rate , I can say that I am one of the few people who saw T. S. Eliot with his trousers down . |
| 28 | Teresa Darrell is a most unhappy creature who lost her young husband shortly after their honeymoon , and I am one of the few people left who can remember and mourn him . ’ |
| 29 | Festivals are one of the few opportunities in the UK for screening short films , and we will be presenting not just this year 's BFI New Directors shorts , but also programmes of short films from film schools in the UK and Canada , from the Arts Council funded schemes and films funded by the filmmakers themselves . |
| 30 | MAPLE trees , just now unfurling their leaves , are one of the few species known not by their common name but the official botanical one . |