Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few remaining [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Promoted to a senior lectureship in 1973 and to his professorship in German some 10 years later , he was one of the few remaining full-time members of the staff to have witnessed not only the coming of age of the University , but also the massive expansion of the Modern Languages Department and its impressive rise to prominence as an exponent of the applied approach to the teaching of languages , involving a marked shift of emphasis from a near exclusive preoccupation with literary studies in one foreign language to the development of communication skills in at least two . |
| 2 | He described the region as one of the few remaining pristine areas of the world , which must be retained for long term investigation . |
| 3 | Police at checkpoints were ordered by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to prevent Western correspondents from entering Sevastopol , one of the few remaining closed cities of the former Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Sevastopol , one of the few remaining closed cities on former Soviet territory , with access restricted to permit holders , is not expensive by the hyper-inflated standards of Moscow and Kiev , but supplies are bad . |
| 5 | To a certain extent yes , though as one of the few remaining radical bookshops there were few radical publishers to talk to . |
| 6 | In the mid-1630s , John Williams , who as Bishop of Lincoln was one of the few remaining non-Laudian prelates , made public his opposition to his colleagues ' initiative ; he became involved in a heated literary battle on the subject with the staunch Arminian , Peter Heylyn , and following the publication of his work The Holy Table Name and Thing , he was thrown into prison . |
| 7 | Eva Hart , now 87 , is one of the few remaining Titanic survivors . |
| 8 | Wartime service spanned almost the entire Pacific conflict , making it one of the most historically significant of the few remaining Australian Dakotas , the other preserved examples appearing to have had very pedestrian careers in comparison while ‘ SBO was used exclusively for military frontline transport operations , making it a veteran par excellence . |
| 9 | One of the few remaining big tuskers in Assam ( left ) . |
| 10 | Of the few remaining large houses , Mere House which faces the pond is possibly the oldest , thought to be Elizabethan and reputed to have been visited by the ghost of a monk . |
| 11 | There are no easy answers , but unless they can be found Europeans run the very real risk of seriously damaging one of the few remaining natural resources available to them . |
| 12 | They were almost certainly endowed with highly developed sensory and intuitive powers seen only in the few remaining native tribes alive today . |
| 13 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 14 | Instead , George concentrated his efforts on the few remaining furry areas on an otherwise bare bear . |