Example sentences of "of [art] few [noun] who " in BNC.

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1 One of the few women who had done so over time without the complement of sexual gratification .
2 " Dr Dunstaple , please ! " protested the Magistrate , who was one of the few cantonment-dwellers who had never experienced any affection for Dr Dunstaple .
3 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 .
4 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 . ’
5 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 .
6 Mr Devaty is one of the few dissidents who do not come from a Prague-based intellectual background .
7 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 .
8 They are still one of the few bands who mean anything these days .
9 Sylvia is one of the few people who has learnt to interpret Elaine 's noises .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 I 'm one of the few people who can really claim to have gone with Noakes . ’
14 I was one of the few people who understood him . ’
15 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 .
16 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 …
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her .
20 She was one of the few people who rose early in the morning to greet him on his release from prison in 1897 .
21 Already you are familiar with my lifestyle , my hobbies ; you are even one of the few people who know of Gabriella . ’
22 At any rate , I can say that I am one of the few people who saw T. S. Eliot with his trousers down .
23 ‘ And I was probably one of the few people who ever paid It ’ , he suggests .
24 Zaria was one of the few people who could control her when she had the moods . ’
25 Ken is one of the few people who can stun me into being ungrammatical .
26 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 .
27 He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament .
28 Invitations come via playgroups but parents of the few children who do not attend one can contact the headteacher , Margaret Sutton , at the school .
29 From videofilms shown to reporters in Saudi Arabia , and the reports of the few journalists who spent the first days of the war in Baghdad , other successful hits can be independently verified .
30 One of the few journalists who was always sceptical of the Al Fayeds ' case has just joined the staff of The Economist .
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