Example sentences of "of [art] few [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few things certain about the outlook is that 1993 will be a difficult year financially . |
| 2 | One of the few things predictable about future input technology is that it will include an optical scan element which will be at its best handling the output from IT related machines . |
| 3 | Nevertheless he is one of the few batsmen available to South Africa who has a proven record of being able to put big hundreds together and this is a prime requirement for Test match cricket . |
| 4 | On the contrary , one of the few broadcasters likely to use D2 MAC was recently shut down . |
| 5 | Trolls are not the only monsters to be found there , but they are one of the few creatures able to thrive in this grim and hostile land . |
| 6 | Rev. Dr. Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party was one of the few persons keen to help . |
| 7 | Relevant data are therefore difficult to identify and scenario building is one of the few approaches available . |
| 8 | His death in 1804 removed ‘ one of the few lives precious to mankind ’ , in the words of Thomas Jefferson , third president of the United States . |
| 9 | One of the few companies willing to talk about RFI is Foxbro , based in Massachusetts , which makes control equipment for petrochemical plants . |
| 10 | Gambon , 51 , is one of the few actors big enough to play the mountainous Maxwell . |
| 11 | Dill , the ‘ boarded meeting place ’ , was one of the few Sussex hundreds that seems to have had any accommodation specially provided ; what effect the winter conditions had on the conducting of business can only be imagined . |
| 12 | A shoal makes an impressive sight , especially as they are one of the few catfish active by day . |
| 13 | Labour MP Chris Mullin , another leader in the Guildford Four case , said : ‘ He was one of the few judges willing to face the possibility that the system to which he had devoted his life was capable of making serious mistakes . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is one of the few Cryptocorynes capable of growing in alkaline conditions . |
| 16 | He 's one of the few people alive today who knew Elgar personally . |
| 17 | But Mr Swash said : ‘ These parties are one of the few occasions some people get out . |
| 18 | One of the few occasions big bream spend any length of time in marginal weed is the two or three weeks in spring or early summer when they spawn . |
| 19 | The metaphor used in ‘ the heavy page/of death , printed by gravestones in the cemetery ’ , works with the ‘ black statement ’ of a few lines previous suggesting that death is like a book which can survive through generations and is read , that is experienced , by all . |
| 20 | How can a beam of electrons that is made to wiggle in a plane with a spatial period of a few centimetres possible produce electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of a few microns ? |
| 21 | One arrived at the bedside of a total stranger , and inside of a few hours that stranger became not merely the most important person in the world , but one 's entire world . |
| 22 | I decided to put pen to paper and let you know of a few problems some of us have in trying to become machine knitters . |
| 23 | Apparently they 're the offspring of a few cabbage white butterflies which were blown across the channel , have hatched , and are currently munching their way through the garden of England . |
| 24 | Cystoids ( class Cystoidea ) are even odder animals : often rather irregular bags of calcite plates , or if composed of a few plates these may carry powerful ribbing . |
| 25 | In fact , with the exception of a few critics such as Lytton Strachey who noticed ‘ the melancholy of regretful recollection , of bitter speculation , of immortal longings unsatisfied ’ , the poems of 1912–13 attracted little attention . |
| 26 | The Supreme Soviet usually met for two sessions of a few days each year . |
| 27 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |