Example sentences of "from [art] few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also obsessed by an imagined threat from the few remaining ex-revolutionaries . |
| 2 | No signed or documented work by her is known and what can be assembled as an oeuvre emerges from the few surviving miniatures between 1545 and 1575 . |
| 3 | In 1887 Polish was officially banned even from the few private bilingual schools of Pomerania , and children heard speaking Polish were threatened with public flogging . |
| 4 | The two or three families who had come without money or slaves and who had kept themselves rigorously segregated from the few black people they found already on the island , were still shunning newcomers . |
| 5 | International conferences could provide the vehicle for international co-operation and co-ordination , but apart from the few international conferences organized by the British Library and by the International Association of Technological University Libraries ( IATUL ) there have not been many more than a dozen , and none of these has focused on the need for international co-ordination ; although they have kindled a certain amount of international co.operation . |
| 6 | We heard from the few local women who did attend how they took the law into their own hands and arranged regular supplies of contraceptives from the North . |
| 7 | Apart from the few ornamental buildings , it was an unattractive little town , built from mud . |
| 8 | He has planted himself and his small company betimes ; indeed , apart from the few native people as I say , there is no one here to give us hindrance in our enterprise . |
| 9 | Apart from a few straightforward effects ( slow motion , freeze frame ) , art movies tend to fall outside this area , because by and large SFX are expensive and time-consuming , whereas art movies of limited appeal tend to be made on relatively low budgets . |
| 10 | Who , apart from a few latter-day Edwardians , is interested in a windbag with a funny beard , who wrote ( at great length ) about socialism , and whose ( long ) plays are comedies of ill-manners , featuring semi-melodramatic characters from a forgotten age ? |
| 11 | Far removed from a few simple flowers and greenery , this is an elaborate screen covered with flower petals stuck into clay to form a picture . |
| 12 | Apart from a few Labour competitors , he was the best Leader of the House that I have seen , certainly in a Conservative Government . |
| 13 | People were aware of the hard struggle ahead and of its significance , but were generally calm and confident , apart from a few nervous expressions of the difficulties involved in conquering ‘ these vast spaces ’ . |
| 14 | Their seeds had remained dormant underground for years or come from a few surviving specimens . |
| 15 | The earliest beakers were small , and , apart from a few early hunt scenes , all the figures on the larger examples came into fashion in the third century . |
| 16 | The sex exclusive markers which do indeed occur in some languages are superficially striking , but on closer inspection they can be seen to result from a few regular and predictable rules acting on the same basic structures . |
| 17 | The business of turning bark into stoppers is very much a cottage industry , apart from a few modern factories . |
| 18 | Its herdbook was formed in 1892 and there was a breed society from 1920 to 1938 but it was reconstructed from a few remaining individuals , with the result that there was considerable inbreeding and a particularly popular bull , widely used for his whiteness , was later found to have spread a serious genetic defect ( hypoplasia ) correlated to the degree of whiteness . |
| 19 | Yet apart from a few scattered Tory voices , there is no public debate . |
| 20 | The spread of the habit from a few scattered locations before 1930 to a great many in 1947 was well documented ( Fisher & Hinde , 1949 ; Hinde & Fisher , 1951 ) . |
| 21 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 22 | Apart from a few still lifes , interiors , and landscapes , the pictures of Gwen John 's artistic maturity are all female portraits , usually of a model known only as ‘ the convalescent ’ , the monumental figure isolated or before a simple background . |
| 23 | But , apart from a few foolhardy daisies confused by a mild winter , there was little in Shetland to indicate that spring was — officially — only a few weeks away . |
| 24 | I wonder if they will ask me to go , but apart from a few curious glances , quickly snuffed , they ignore me . |
| 25 | Apart from a few small departments which relocated to Aldermaston into temporary accommodation shortly after the site was purchased , the main move was made in two parts starting with the move of the headquarters of Blue Circle Cement , the main UK operating group , into temporary accommodation in the third quarter of 1984 . |
| 26 | I 've never been able to speak Spanish before , apart from a few odd phrases like spaghetti bolognese and virtuosi di Roma ! |
| 27 | We recognise that the bulk of actual recruitment spade work will be done at a local level , but , apart from a few heroic efforts , the branches were not up to it . |
| 28 | In fact , the themes are various and , despite rival 1492 celebrations , for Europeans the artistic creativity of Latin America apart from a few great names is still largely unexplored territory . |
| 29 | ‘ It looked pretty derelict when I bought it but the quality of materials and craftsmanship in those days was superb and I was able to restore it back to its original condition , apart from a few new components . ’ |
| 30 | The make-ups for these are mostly straightforward , apart from a few facial appliances to simulate injuries or decay . |