Example sentences of "[prep] [art] chosen few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their self-image was that of the chosen few for whom the spectacle provided an inexhaustible supply of objects ( and people ) to hate , and whilst the apparent ease with which they targeted and disposed of their opposition often made good copy ( the endless adventure , the scandal , etc. ) , there is a sense in which the hectoring tone of their documents became repetitive and wearisome . |
| 2 | So God 's promises to Abraham were not just for the selfish enjoyment of a chosen few . |
| 3 | As for the branches , it is perhaps invidious to focus upon a chosen few since in some places merely to carry on unheralded was a considerable triumph . |
| 4 | Ali were doomed to perish except a chosen few , a very few . |
| 5 | It would be dry and acid , revealed only to a chosen few . |
| 6 | She dreaded being called a learned lady : her mother said that ‘ she was a living library ; but locked up , except to a chosen few . ’ |
| 7 | A sense of injustice therefore existed in some schools which , for whatever reasons , were not among the chosen few . |
| 8 | They will have to find the right balance between rule by unwieldy committee and by a chosen few ( or fewer , as at Clifford Chance , which has a partners ' council but where power , in practice , largely rests with the managing partner ) . |