Example sentences of "a few [noun] who " in BNC.
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1 | There are exceptions , of course ; anyone can quote the names of a few specialists who have attained local or even national eminence . |
2 | The England team had a few players who were later to play first-class cricket , and were brought together by one W.S. Donne , who , if he did n't enjoy great success on the Olympic playing field , achieved eminence in Rugby Union , elected president of the RFU in 1923–24 . |
3 | The Prince also demanded a few officers who were experienced in battle and who would exemplify his own ideas of how wars should be fought . |
4 | But while this method keeps many plant-eaters at bay , there are always a few creatures who have the design capability to deal with the toxins . |
5 | Mrs Frizzell snatched up her property , tried wildly to wrap the books in the remains of the paper bag , dropped one of them , picked it up and fled to the cloak-room at the back of the hall , followed by the titters and sniggers of not a few ladies who , knowing the reason for her purchase of the books , could well have rescued her from her predicament , but saw no reason to do so . |
6 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
7 | Well , all right , everyone knows that there are going to be a few fools who insist on trying to break their necks … |
8 | Dark ages ; but there are a few performers who take these pieces seriously , and their beacons light the path for others to follow . |
9 | All the trouble , says Ronnie , is down to ‘ a few families who doa n't keep their young ’ uns in order . |
10 | They mentioned the names of a few judges who they did not think highly of . |
11 | ‘ There 's a few teachers who you can get on with and talk to . |
12 | A lot of them treat you more as a sort of friend and an equal rather than looking down … there 's a few teachers who treat you like a child rather than like themselves , but most of them are very friendly … well , I think it 's mainly because they 're younger teachers … and there 's not such a great age gap , you know . |
13 | If there 's a vacuum , then there 'll be a few charlatans , a few fools , a few incompetents who will fill that vacuum , because there is a need for people to , to be instant experts on everything . |
14 | Says 15-year-old David Stokes : ‘ There are quite a few boys who just have to have a girlfriend , but it 's not what we all feel . |
15 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |
16 | Now normally over each break there 's not that much there 's I 've had a few students who say they want lessons through the holiday cut normally not that much but this |
17 | There were a few females who were hostile , but most liked her . |
18 | A few Hearthwares who were stalking the corridors of the Manse backed away hurriedly when they met them , for fear of grubbing their highly burnished armour . |
19 | Government officials described the demonstration as " illegal and provocative " and the work of " a few priests who are intent on politics and subversion " . |
20 | The University 's Alumni Office can provide help and advice to groups , whether they consist of a few friends who meet informally from time to time , a group from a particular department or year who wish to arrange a special reunion , or a more established society like the ones described on these pages . |
21 | This is obviously easier if you are fishing with a few friends who are prepared to let you move in if they locate the fish first . |
22 | I 've got James ringing around all the private houses on the island to rope in a few cooks who are n't working tonight . |
23 | There are quite a few Americans who go on talk shows and simply give a performance . |
24 | In a memorandum written for the Commons ' Energy Committee , Andrew Holmes , the editor of Power in Europe , wrote , ‘ In the course of my work as a journalist , I have met a few environmentalists who can envisage some kind of long-term accommodation with the nuclear power industry , If waste disposal and other problems are satisfactorily solved ; I have never met an environmentalist who was not wholly and implacably opposed to the FBR . ’ |
25 | There remain , however , a few dancers who excel in the purely classical roles , which an audience demands because they are still testing grounds for particular talents . |
26 | It might seem unlikely but down in serene Somerset about as far from Teesside as you can get there are a few locals who would agree with him this week . |
27 | Apart from the very young , who were not interested in having siestas , the only human beings to be seen were a few women who preferred to sit in the shade of their houses . |
28 | In the event , there were a few who wished to leave , and a few others who decided that other initial choices had been mistaken , and who wished to join . |
29 | An opinion endorsed by not a few others who whispered among themselves — some of them when Amabel was not listening , others when she very obviously was — that Linnet Gage had stolen the show . |
30 | I and a few others who only that morning had begun to look forward to a peaceful summer ahead , swiftly concluded that we must make some gesture of our own in order to demonstrate the feelings of many of our fellow conservative Members of Parliament . |