Example sentences of "one of [art] few [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Severn Trent was one of the few to move into positive territory , up 2p to 484p . |
| 2 | Christian was one of the few killed in the capture of Rangoon , which had come about more quickly than most of us expected . |
| 3 | If you were one of the few to risk the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday , you would have been able to find no information about the composers being played . |
| 4 | Now I want a top three medal , and I genuinely believe I can get one , ’ he said at the Luton social club where he runs one of the few silat classes in this country — there are less than a hundred active practitoners of the martial art in Britain . |
| 5 | One of the few to grasp what was happening was Lieutenant-Colonel Laurens Van der Post , the South African writer who had been a POW and who spoke Dutch . |
| 6 | Darwin was one of the few to speculate that the law of succession of types was best explained in terms of the constraints placed upon evolution by the major geographical barriers defining the continents . |
| 7 | Emily Davies was one of the few to argue that housekeeping took up little time and that women could in fact combine work and marriage , and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson belonged to an even more select band who put this advice into practice . |
| 8 | Last year it was one of the few paint companies in the South American country to make a profit , although results were down on 1991 . |
| 9 | Chemicals group Courtaulds was one of the few to register any positive movement . |
| 10 | D. J. Wrench is one of the few to have considered in any detail what happened after the National Government was formed . |
| 11 | There is no shortage of adaptive explanations for size increase , but Darwin is one of the few to have pointed out that large organisms such as mastodonts and dinosaurs would have been more vulnerable to extinction because of the limitations of food resources . |
| 12 | Photographs show it as an expanding , immensely complex gas-cloud , and in its centre there is a pulsar , one of the few to have been identified optically . |
| 13 | Chubby is something of a phenomena , being one of the few stand up comedians able to sell out theatres up and down the country having had very little television exposure . |
| 14 | Irving Penn , one of America 's foremost photographers , is seen by many as one of the few to master more than one genre of photography |
| 15 | Irving Penn , one of America 's foremost photographers , is seen by many as one of the few to master more than one genre of photography |
| 16 | If your puppy is one of the few to suffer from travel sickness , it is best to get it started on tablets as soon as possible . |
| 17 | Although Crawford was one of the few Test cricketers to play in spectacles it would seem that his eyesight was not so poor that he could not be used by the military . |
| 18 | Many foreign brands have established themselves in the former Soviet Union for the sake of the publicity , but Baskin-Robbins becomes one of the few to commit themselves to manufacturing there . |
| 19 | Mr Jose-Maria Mendiluce , special envoy of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees , was one of the few permitted to pass through Zvornik in a white Jeep bearing the organisation 's flag . |
| 20 | By June , new wireless sets had arrived , although the first consignment in one of the few supply errors , had no acid for their heavy ‘ wet ’ ( distilled water ) batteries . |
| 21 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 22 | Stevenson himself was one of the few to speak out strenuously against the newly received wisdom — ‘ the idea that you can merchandize candidates like breakfast cereal ’ . |
| 23 | Essanelle is one of the few to make this distinction they have stylists and ‘ style directors ’ for whose expertise you pay more . |
| 24 | Mr Edelstein is one of the few Pribram Jews left . |
| 25 | Mr Thomas said the Co-op Bank was one of the few to cut its charge for bad debts , which fell from £47.7 million to £42.8 million in the year to 9 January , while profits before debt provisions leapt 26 per cent to £52.7 million . |